Discover the man behind the myth. The definitive podcast biography of inventor Nikola Tesla--his fas
Tesla the Showman knocks 'em dead at the AIEE with a lecture for the ages and a breathtaking demonst
Fresh from his return from Europe, Tesla goes on an inventing spree and dabbles in high-frequency cu
The War of the Currents enters its most ghoulish and macabre phase: when the combatants were willing
When New York became the first state to execute people using the electric chair, Edison and his DC s
War is hell, even when it's the War of the Currents. Harold Brown's campaign against AC turns deadly
The War of the Currents begins! Edison uses every dirty trick he can think of in the struggle for DC
Did the Westinghouse engineers want Tesla to fail in Pittsburgh? He went to consult, but all Tesla f
You could call this episode: "Tesla: The Art of the Deal", as we see Tesla and his business partners
Tesla was cranking out break-through inventions as fast as his partners could patent them. Plans to
Not long after Tesla stormed out on Edison opportunity came knocking again…as did further betrayal a
It is the era in which Tesla made his greatest breakthroughs and inventions, and the era in which he
The episode you've all been waiting for! Tesla arrives in New York City and takes a job with Thomas
This week we follow Tesla to Paris and a job with the new Edison lighting company there. In Paris, T
The solution to Tesla's alternating current motor problem came to him as a ‘eureka’ moment during a
If Tesla's life were a movie, these would be the “montage years”--five years edited down into a few
Tesla goes on the lamb not once but twice, with a bit of schooling and a bit of gambling and at leas
This week, we’ll cover Tesla’s schooling from the time he first enrolled in primary school, right up
Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and 10, 1856. In this episode, we'll
This is a story of America in the late 19th Century—the Gilded Age. It’s a story of New York City be
