マルコ・テンペスト「ニコラ・テスラ ― 電気にかけた波乱の人生」

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Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

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NHKのEテレ「スーパープレゼンテーション新春スペシャル」にて
2013年1月2日（水）夜10時から放送→ NHK Super Presentation

【話題】 ニコラ・テスラの伝記

【時間】 6分05秒
【要約】
デジタル技術とマジックの融合を模索するマルコ・テンペストさんが、飛び出す絵本と、プロジェクション・マッピングの技術を駆使して、「ニコラ・テスラ」という発明家、電気技術者の生涯を語ります

このトークを理解するために、いくつか説明しなければならないことがあります

プロジェクション・マッピングとは？
プロジェクターを使って、建物などの立体物に映像を投射することにより、その立体物そのものが光ったり、透けたり、動いたりしているかのうように見せる技術のこと→ Projection Mapping Association of Japan

タナグラ劇場とは？
トークの中でも説明されていますが、20世紀初頭に流行した娯楽で、鏡を使うことにより、小さな箱の中で人間が動いているかのように見せる劇のこと→ Tanagra Theater

ニコラ・テスラって誰？

1856年生-1943年没の発明家、電気技師。オーストリア帝国（現セルビア）生まれ。交流電流をはじめ、多くの発明を残した。天才的な頭脳の持ち主であったが、子供の頃に幻覚に悩まされたり、大人になってからも奇怪な言動が多かったと言われる。アメリカでエジソンの会社で働いていた時期もあったが、後にエジソンと対立して退社している
→ ニコラ・テスラ

無線送電
現在、電気は送電線を通じて送られている。しかし、この「ケーブル」を使わずに、「ワイアレス」で電気（電波ではない）を送っちゃおうというもの。携帯電話の充電などには実用化されている模様→ 無線送電

【語彙】

tanagra theater ：タナグラ劇場

hallucination ：幻覚

synesthesia ：共感覚

alternating current ：交流電流

ether ：エーテル

recluse ：世捨て人

dodge ：かわす、よける

プロジェクション・パッピングの例

【transcripts】

As a magician, I'm always interested in performances that incorporate elements of illusion. And one of the most remarkable was the tanagra theater, which was popular in the early part of the 20th century. It used mirrors to create the illusion of tiny people performing on a miniature stage. Now, I won't use mirrors, but this is my digital tribute to the tanagra theater. So let the story begin.

On a dark and stormy night -- really! -- it was the 10th of July, 1856. Lightning lit the sky, and a baby was born. His name was Nikola, Nikola Tesla. Now the baby grew into a very smart guy. Let me show you.

Tesla, what is 236 multiplied by 501?

Nikola Tesla: The result is 118,236.

Marco Tempest: Now Tesla's brain worked in the most extraordinary way. When a word was mentioned, an image of it instantly appeared in his mind. Tree. Chair. Girl. They were hallucinations, which vanished the moment he touched them. Probably a form of synesthesia.

But it was something he later turned to his advantage. Where other scientists would play in their laboratory, Tesla created his inventions in his mind.

NT: To my delight, I discovered I could visualize my inventions with the greatest facility.

MT: And when they worked in the vivid playground of his imagination, he would build them in his workshop.

NT: I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them as real in my mind, and there I run it, test it and improve it. Only then do I construct it.

MT: His great idea was alternating current. But how could he convince the public that the millions of volts required to make it work were safe? To sell his idea, he became a showman.

NT: We are at the dawn of a new age, the age of electricity. I have been able, through careful invention, to transmit, with the mere flick of a switch, electricity across the ether. It is the magic of science. (Applause)

Tesla has over 700 patents to his name: radio, wireless telegraphy, remote control, robotics. He even photographed the bones of the human body. But the high point was the realization of a childhood dream: harnessing the raging powers of Niagara Falls, and bringing light to the city.

But Tesla's success didn't last.

NT: I had bigger ideas. Illuminating the city was only the beginning. A world telegraphy center -- imagine news, messages, sounds, images delivered to any point in the world instantly and wirelessly.

MT: It's a great idea; it was a huge project. Expensive, too.

NT: They wouldn't give me the money.

MT: Well, maybe you shouldn't have told them it could be used to contact other planets.

NT: Yes, that was a big mistake.

MT: Tesla's career as an inventor never recovered. He became a recluse. Dodged by death, he spent much of his time in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

NT: Everything I did, I did for mankind, for a world where there would be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich, where products of intellect, science and art will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life.

MT: Nikola Tesla died on the 7th of January, 1943. His final resting place is a golden globe that contains his ashes at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. His legacy is with us still.

Tesla became the man who lit the world, but this was only the beginning. Tesla's insight was profound.

NT: Tell me, what will man do when the forests disappear, and the coal deposits are exhausted?

MT: Tesla thought he had the answer. We are still asking the question.

Thank you.

マルコ・テンペスト「ニコラ・テスラ − 電気にかけた波乱の人生」