Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast
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Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast
Discover the man behind the myth. The definitive podcast biography of inventor Nikola Tesla--his fascinating real life, inventions, and legacy.
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033 - Tesla Goes West (1899)
Tesla takes a momentous professional leap and heads west to Colorado Springs. There he builds the experimental station that would allow him to underst...
032 - The Earthquake Machine (1896 - 1898)
Tesla realizes he's reached the limits of experiments he can do on wireless transmission from his Manhattan laboratory when he almost lays waste to hi...
031 – Where’s My Remote Control? (1896 - 1898)
Tesla abandons x-rays, pioneers radio control, and tries to end war for all time--but not before blowing up what had been one of his closest personal...
Interview with Tesla Biographer Dr. Marc J. Seifer
I'm joined by Tesla biographer, Dr. Marc J. Seifer, for a discussion of his fascinating new book Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam W...
030 - The Light That Never Was (1895 - 1896)
Tesla begins the monumental task of rebuilding his lab after the fire and, as 1896 dawns, he misses out TWICE on making a revolutionary scientific dis...
029 - Tesla - Towering Inferno (1895)
On March 13, 1895, at the height of his powers, Tesla suffered a devastating tragedy as his world--and his work--came crashing down around him.
Hiatus Update & New Episodes in 2022!
TL;DR - This year knocked me off schedule completely, but new episodes are coming soon! Thanks for sticking with the show--I'm looking forward to gett...
028 - War of the Currents: Part 8 - Victory Niagara (1893-1897)
It's the endgame of the War of the Currents! After their betrayal by the Cataract Construction Company, Tesla and Westinghouse finally secure the cont...
027 - War of the Currents Part 7: Hail Hydro (1889-1893)
No one wanted to harness Niagara Falls for hydroelectric power longer than Tesla himself. But he and Westinghouse faced liars, cheats, and thieves as...
026 - Tesla - In Tesla's Laboratory (1894)
Tesla, at the height of his fame, hobnobs with the Gilded Age's 1%. He hosts exclusive events after-hours in his lab, gets up to unusual experiments w...
025 - Tesla - A Star Is Born (1894)
Tesla reputation as a leading man of electrical science grows, and publications and accolades come his way by the handful, thanks in no small part to...
024b - Tesla Goes to the Movies: MacGyver
What happens when a rebooted MacGyver and a John Turturro-lookalike as Tesla meet up deep in MacGyver's subconscious? Is MacGyver's mom evil? Was Tels...
024a - Tesla Goes to the Movies: Doctor Who
What happens when everyone's favourite electrical pioneer meets up with everyone's favourite Time Lord? Why, the world gets saved, of course! Join us...
024 - Tesla - Good Vibrations (1893)
Just what was Tesla up to on the side while working with Westinghouse on both the World’s Fair and the bid to win the contract to electrify Niagara Fa...
023 - Tesla - Tesla in the White City (1893)
It was the Fair That Changed America. And it was the chance for Tesla and Westinghouse to show the world the power of their AC system. The 1893 World'...
022 - Tesla - War of the Currents Part 6: The Battle of Chicago (1892)
Westinghouse makes an 11th-hour bid to electrify the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 with Tesla's AC system and GE will do anything to torpedo the deal....
021 - Tesla - War of the Currents Part 5: The Second Front (1890 - 1892)
Edison and Westinghouse battle over lightbulbs and high finance as we return to the trenches of the War of the Currents, and see how the war whittled...
020 - Tesla - A Most Painful Ordeal (1892)
Tesla's trip to the Continent would take an emotional and physical toll that he couldn't have imagined. But he nevertheless returned from Europe with...
019 - Tesla - Order of the Flaming Sword (1891-1892)
When his colleagues in the AC field start turning on him, Tesla uses an invitation to lecture in London to reassert his place as the inventor of the A...
018 - Tesla - The Greatest Show On Earth (1891)
Tesla the Showman knocks 'em dead at the AIEE with a lecture for the ages and a breathtaking demonstration of high frequency AC. It was his ticket to...
017 - Tesla - The Biggest Mistake Nikola Tesla Ever Made (1890-1891)
Fresh from his return from Europe, Tesla goes on an inventing spree and dabbles in high-frequency currents. But when George Westinghouse comes calling...
016 - Tesla - War of the Currents Part 4: The Executioner's Current (1889-1890)
The War of the Currents enters its most ghoulish and macabre phase: when the combatants were willing to play with a man’s life. William Kemmler became...
015 - Telsa - War of the Currents Part 3: Shock & Awe (1888-1889)
When New York became the first state to execute people using the electric chair, Edison and his DC supporters would do anything to ensure it was alter...
014 - Tesla - War of the Currents Part 2: First Casualties (1888)
War is hell, even when it's the War of the Currents. Harold Brown's campaign against AC turns deadly, as he conducts gruesome electrical experiments o...
013 - Tesla - War of the Currents Part 1: Opening Salvo (1886-1888)
The War of the Currents begins! Edison uses every dirty trick he can think of in the struggle for DC dominance vs. the AC upstart. There can be only o...
012 - Tesla - Tesla in Steel City (1889)
Did the Westinghouse engineers want Tesla to fail in Pittsburgh? He went to consult, but all Tesla found was a hornet's nest of resentment, ego, and c...
011 - Tesla - Paying the Cost to Be the Boss (1888)
You could call this episode: "Tesla: The Art of the Deal", as we see Tesla and his business partners Peck and Brown bluff, finagle, and finally negoti...
010 - Tesla - Patent. Promote. Sell. (1887-1888)
Tesla was cranking out break-through inventions as fast as his partners could patent them. Plans to promote and sell them culminated in Tesla’s full-o...
009 - Tesla - How Tesla (Eventually) Got His Groove Back
Not long after Tesla stormed out on Edison opportunity came knocking again…as did further betrayal and disappointment. But with the help of new busine...
008 - Tesla - A Scandalously Short History of the Gilded Age
It is the era in which Tesla made his greatest breakthroughs and inventions, and the era in which he found fame and fortune: the Gilded Age. Today, a ...
007 - Tesla vs Edison: Round 1
The episode you've all been waiting for! Tesla arrives in New York City and takes a job with Thomas Edison. See the seeds of a life-long rivalry sown...
006 - Tesla - Is Paris Electrified? (1882-1884)
This week we follow Tesla to Paris and a job with the new Edison lighting company there. In Paris, Telsa gains his first real, practical exposure to t...
005 - Tesla - A Walk in the Park (1882)
The solution to Tesla's alternating current motor problem came to him as a ‘eureka’ moment during a walk in the park in 1882: the rotating magnetic fi...
004 - Tesla - Frustrated Montage Years 1878-1882
If Tesla's life were a movie, these would be the “montage years”--five years edited down into a few minutes (probably with melancholy music playing un...
003 - Tesla - Big Man on Campus 1874 - 1877
Tesla goes on the lamb not once but twice, with a bit of schooling and a bit of gambling and at least one brush with death keeping him busy in between...
002 - Tesla - School Days 1861-1874
This week, we’ll cover Tesla’s schooling from the time he first enrolled in primary school, right up until he heads off for engineering school in the...
001 - Tesla - Childhood 1856-1861
Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and 10, 1856. In this episode, we'll learn about Tesla's childhood years on the rural f...
000 - Introductions
This is a story of America in the late 19th Century—the Gilded Age. It’s a story of New York City before the automobile. It’s a story of robber barons...