The Automatization of Nikola Tesla
Thinking Invention in the Late Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4755405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georges Thibault (0000-0003-1564-4450, corresponding author), Ghislain Thibault |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-52 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2013.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W1977453513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 17 |
By investigating the conflicted relationship between Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and the electrical engineering community, this essay explores competing representations of "invention" in the fin-de-siècle period. Drawing on the observation that the dominant paradigm of invention was entangled in various inscription practices, I turn to the case of Tesla to examine how inventions that circulated only as discourses were represented and legitimated in the scientific community, popular press, and literature. The essay argues that the rise of transmission media, such as wireless telegraphy, that challenged established conceptions about physical reality informed, in turn, Tesla's singular model of invention
Aesthetics · Computer security · Epistemology · Invention · Political science · Sociology · Telecommunications · Telegraphy · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Scripts, grooves, and writing machines
A History of Wireless Telegraphy
The Disunity of science
The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880–1930
The Moral Character of Mad Scientists
Science and Engineering Theory in the Invention and Development of the Induction Motor, 1880-1900
Science on Stage
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Portable Power
Innovation, Technology, or History
From Death Rays to Light Sabers
Tesla
Technology as Knowledge
The Scientific Image of Emotion
Thinking Again about Science in Technology
From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |