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 the first person put to death by deliberate elect...
11 Juni 201836min
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 alternating current that powered "Old Sparky"…
31 Maj 201829min
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 on stray dogs, and helps set the stage for New York...
30 Apr 201839min
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 one (format)!
15 Apr 201829min
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 competing agendas. And what was Edison up to now th...
2 Apr 201833min
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 negotiate the lucrative sale of the AC motor patents to ...
12 Mars 201837min
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-on arrival as a cutting edge figure in the electric...
27 Feb 201847min
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 business partners, Tesla was on his way to becoming a tr...
8 Feb 201840min
