Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast

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010 - Tesla - Patent. Promote. Sell. (1887-1888) Feb 27, 2018

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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 electrical field with his groundbreaking address to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

009 - Tesla - How Tesla (Eventually) Got His Groove Back Feb 08, 2018

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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 truly world-changing figure.

008 - Tesla - A Scandalously Short History of the Gilded Age Jan 25, 2018

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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 time; its big themes; and how it changed United States (and Tesla!) forever.

007 - Tesla vs Edison: Round 1 Nov 20, 2017

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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 Tesla vs. Edison: Round 1--let's get ready to rummmble!

006 - Tesla - Is Paris Electrified? (1882-1884) Nov 06, 2017

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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 and motors, and gets a taste for just how good the good life can be.

005 - Tesla - A Walk in the Park (1882) Oct 22, 2017

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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 this innovation would literally change the world.

004 - Tesla - Frustrated Montage Years 1878-1882 Oct 08, 2017

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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 for our hero for a long time until his big break came at the end of Act 1.

003 - Tesla - Big Man on Campus 1874 - 1877 Sep 24, 2017

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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 Sep 14, 2017

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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 life, and it makes sense to break there until next time.

001 - Tesla - Childhood 1856-1861 Sep 05, 2017

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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 early tragedy and a contentious relationship with his father would shape the rest of his life and give him the abilities he needed to make later breakthrough innovations in electricity.

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