{"id":140414,"date":"2022-06-12T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tesla-fact-vs-fiction-why-the-public-perception-is-wrong"},"modified":"2022-06-12T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:59:20","slug":"tesla-fact-vs-fiction-why-the-public-perception-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tesla-fact-vs-fiction-why-the-public-perception-is-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Fact vs. Fiction: Why the Public Perception is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla Fact vs. Fiction: Why the Public Perception is Wrong\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6331JXvOUGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why the Public Perception of Tesla is TOTALLY wrong:<\/p>\n<p>Shared by Michael Michalchik.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Almost everything commonly told about Tesla is wrong! He didn\u2019t invent AC, he didn\u2019t battle Edison over AC vs. DC, he didn\u2019t even have a rivalry with Edison, he didn\u2019t want to give everyone free electricity and he wasn\u2019t a Physics genius! Referencing primary sources I can show you why we have such a perverted view of Tesla\u2019s real accomplishments and life.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read this as an article (with lots of references) click here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kathylovesphysics.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/23\/how-the-public-perception-of-nikola-tesla-is-totally-wrong\/\">https:\/\/kathylovesphysics.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/23\/how-the-p\u2026lly-wrong\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of videos about different elements in the history of electricity, including:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tesla-fact-vs-fiction-why-the-public-perception-is-wrong\">Continue reading \u201cTesla Fact vs. Fiction: Why the Public Perception is Wrong\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Public Perception of Tesla is TOTALLY wrong: Shared by Michael Michalchik. Almost everything commonly told about Tesla is wrong! He didn\u2019t invent AC, he didn\u2019t battle Edison over AC vs. DC, he didn\u2019t even have a rivalry with Edison, he didn\u2019t want to give everyone free electricity and he wasn\u2019t a Physics genius! [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,42,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-media-arts","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}