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I have a genuine question about Tesla. I've read some of his speeches/presentations, and he has credited his interest in inductors and electrical fields to, amo

I have a genuine question about Tesla. I've read some of his speeches/presentations, and he has credited his interest in inductors and electrical fields to, among other things, papers or texts written by William Crookes. I can't find which texts, though. Does anyone know? See, the thing about Crookes is, he seems to have veered towards paranormal stuff towards the end of his career and a lot of the literature surrounding him has to do with that. Somewhat ironically, the Crookes Tube was featured in one of H.P. Lovecraft's stories during an attempt to exorcise an eldritch monstrosity of fungal horror.

krapp 9y ago
Now I know that there needs to be a survival horror game where Nikola Tesla fights eldritch abominations in Gilded Age New York.
- triplesec 9y ago
  Using mathematics... See the Laundry series by Charles Stross.
Johnythree 9y ago
See "William Crookes and the Commercialisation of Science" by William H. Brock Crooks is an interesting character. He was one of the few who witnessed the "lost" experiments of David Huges so he had a preview of what was coming in radio technology. see page 263 at goo.gl/J1fiSA and https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/features/2000-2009/2008/06/nparticle.2008-06-18.html https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/features/20... and https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/10/22/ubi-crookes-ibi-lux/ https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/10/22...