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Nikola Tesla

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Why history’s most famous scientists are usually a bit weird

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Obsessed with work, insensitive, socially detached, and neglectful of family and friends — these may not be the most endearing qualities in a person, but they are just a few of the common characteristics a researcher found when studying some of the world’s most famous and prolific inventors.

Wanted: Bold Thinkers

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Tesla and Twain

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The Death Ray

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Serbia's 100 dinar bill features inventor Nikola Tesla.

Nikola Tesla changed the world — so why did we forget him?

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Introducing Nikola Tesla

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Kurt talks with Samantha Hunt about her novel The Invention of Everything Else. Tesla is the protagonist, and despite the outlandish biographical details all through the book, there was very little she had to make up.

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Transmit This

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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.

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Introducing Nikola Tesla

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Part visionary, part mad scientist, and absolute genius, Tesla should be as famous as Edison ? but he’s been largely forgotten. Kurt talks with Samantha Hunt about her novel The Invention of Everything Else. Tesla is the protagonist, and despite the outlandish biographical details all through the book, there was very little she had to make up.

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