Nikola Tesla vs. Ernst Mach
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
"The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me."
Ernst Mach
1838 – 1916
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
"Mathematical and physiological researches have shown that the space of experience is simply an actual case of many conceivable cases, about whose peculiar prope…"
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