Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast

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 whirlwind tour of America in the Gilded Age--its t...

25 Tammi 20181h 39min

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 because of a broken million-dollar promise. It's T...

20 Marras 201736min

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 the nitty-gritty of designing and building dynamos ...

6 Marras 201730min

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 field, and the induction motor. The applications of ...

22 Loka 201726min

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 underneath) showing us that things didn't work out f...

8 Loka 201724min

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.

24 Syys 201730min

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 late 1870s. It's a major turning point in Tesla's ...

14 Syys 201723min

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 frontier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and how ea...

5 Syys 201731min