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  1. NIKOLA TESLA: STRANGE GENIUS

    The astounding mad scientist life of Nikola Tesla. Just who was this pioneer of radio, radar, and wireless communication? We discover his legacy in the work of today’s scientists and artists. Samantha Hunt’s novel The Invention of Everything Else is a fictional portrait of Tesla. Monologist Mike Daisey tells us how Tesla X-rayed Mark Twain’s head. And across the country, garage inventors toil in obscurity at the next breakthrough that will change the world.

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  2. Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC

    Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius — The astounding mad scientist life of Nikola Tesla. Just who was this pioneer of radio, radar, and wireless communication? We discover his legacy in the work of today’s scientists and artists. Samantha Hunt’s novel The Invention of Everything Else is a fictional portrait of Tesla. Monologist Mike Daisey tells us how Tesla X-rayed Mark Twain’s head. And across the country, garage inventors toil in obscurity at the next breakthrough that will change the world.

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  3. The Caustic Continuum, Episode #11. The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

    Chapters Five and Six, read by Gordon Fynes and norelpref, respectively. The final installment in the Tesla "trilogy."

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  4. Tank Riot: Episode 46 Nikola Tesla

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    Nikola Tesla! The tank team discusses the brilliant scientist’s complex life and inventions (AC power, radio, induction motors, rotary transformers and more!) Learn about his famous rivalry with Thomas Edison and other moments in his world changing career!

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  5. The Caustic Continuum #5: The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, part 2

    The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

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  6. The Caustic Continuum #4: The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, part 1

    The first of three installments, Chapters One and Two of “The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla” have been performed and wrapped into episode #4.

    The narrative was read by Gordon Fynes and norelpref, respectively. Music in norelpref’s segment is by Robert Rich.

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  7. The Death Ray

    Mike Daisey completes his life story of Tesla with this tale about the scientist’s real Dr. Strangelove moment: inventing the ultimate superweapon. But did it work? The government thought it might, and the Cold War got hotter.

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  8. Mr. Spock and Dr. Strangelove

    Samantha Hunt describes the turning point in Tesla’s life when he began acting like a mad scientist, almost taking a page from the movies. And biologist Vincent Pieribone thinks that Hollywood’s most dangerous fantasy about “mad scientists” is that scientists have any power at all.

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  9. Tesla and Twain

    Tesla was a flamboyant character who held salons where he played fast and loose with technology. Mike Daisey tells the story of Tesla, Mark Twain, and an X-ray gun.

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  10. Transmit This

    A lot of us learned that Guglielmo Marconi invented radio, but Nikola Tesla transmitted electromagnetic waves before Marconi –- the Supreme Court decided the case in 1943. Jim Stagnitto, the Director of Engineering for WNYC, gives Kurt a tour at the top of the Empire State Building to check out a radio transmitter in action.

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