Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09
Tesla’s Inventions, Lit by a Switch
An interactive history of Nikola Tesla’s patents, unfinished ideas, and the inventions that outlived their inventor.
Why it surfacedThe page turns Tesla’s patent history into a small interactive exhibit: flip a switch for alternating current, then move through remote control, the bladeless turbine, the Marconi dispute, and Wardenclyffe. Its writing gives each artifact a mechanism, a consequence, and a lingering question—especially the line between an idea being wrong and merely being early.
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Explicit Chemistry, Side A
August 9’s newborn domains include a wedding pressed into a playable record, an AI journal built across 62 memoryless sessions, 127,861 volunteer-verified license-plate-reader reports, and an eight-foot beach-wedding cross engineered for Gulf Coast wind.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-09 Domain Arrivals issue.