Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Laboratory (2)
Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Laboratory (2)[edit]
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- Reason
- Renominating this. I removed the handwritten inscription per discussion in previous nomination.
A photo of Nicola Tesla's work, a pioneer in AC electric power generation and distribution, and co-inventor of the Induction motor. Also known for Tesla coil, Tesla (unit) and Tesla (car). This is probably the most iconic photo of his work. At the time, the photo was used to promote his work. In this photo he is sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs, U.S., next to his magnifying transmitter. This photo is still used in books and articles [1] [2] [3]. The photo was shot in multiple-exposures (i.e. the film was exposed with and without him present). - Articles in which this image appears
- Nikola Tesla, Tesla Experimental Station, Science and technology in the United States, + other versions in several articles
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
- Creator
- Dickenson V. Alley, restored by Bammesk
- Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 20:21, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- Comment Missing detail of the floorboards. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- @ User:Charlesjsharp You are wrong. It's the other way around, the one with writing was "edited" at the time the print was made - the area was dodged out during printing, to leave space for a hand-written note. Proof: put both images in their own tabs, switch between them. You can see that the one with the writing has the floor lightened, but the same floor details are there in both versions. Do it and you see why I support. --Janke | Talk 21:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- I see what you mean, but can we be sure that there is no version with the original floorboards? That seems unlikely. Surely more likely that we have only seen retouched images. Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- I think these are the original floorboards, since they are the same in both images, lightened and not. Back then, you could hardly "clone" photo details, and the one with writing is definitely from 1901 - dated by Tesla himself... ;-) --Janke | Talk 19:39, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- I see what you mean, but can we be sure that there is no version with the original floorboards? That seems unlikely. Surely more likely that we have only seen retouched images. Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- @ User:Charlesjsharp You are wrong. It's the other way around, the one with writing was "edited" at the time the print was made - the area was dodged out during printing, to leave space for a hand-written note. Proof: put both images in their own tabs, switch between them. You can see that the one with the writing has the floor lightened, but the same floor details are there in both versions. Do it and you see why I support. --Janke | Talk 21:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support – DreamSparrow Chat 14:35, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 16:31, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 20:02, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --The helper5667 (talk) 05:33, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support MGJohn-117 (talk) 23:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:56, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Promoted File:Nikola Tesla, with his equipment Wellcome M0014782 - restoration2.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
- Added image to Places/Interiors instead. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)