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 whirlwind tour of America in the Gilded Age--its t...
25 Jan 20181h 39min
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 because of a broken million-dollar promise. It's T...
20 Nov 201736min
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 the nitty-gritty of designing and building dynamos ...
6 Nov 201730min
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 field, and the induction motor. The applications of ...
22 Okt 201726min
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 underneath) showing us that things didn't work out f...
8 Okt 201724min
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.
24 Sep 201730min
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 late 1870s. It's a major turning point in Tesla's ...
14 Sep 201723min
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 frontier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and how ea...
5 Sep 201731min
