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A priest's son from a mountain village on the edge of the Austrian Empire walked into New York in 1884 with a few cents in his pocket and an idea he had first scratched into the sand of a Budapest park. Within a decade that idea was lighting the Chicago World's Fair and carrying the power of Niagara Falls to Buffalo.

Tesla is now one of the most famous inventors in history, and one of the most mythologized. This biography follows the real man: the rotating magnetic field, the war of the currents, the lightning experiments in Colorado and the doomed tower on Long Island, the pigeons, the hotel bills and the death ray nobody ever saw. Along the way you will learn to tell which parts of the Tesla story are history and which are legend.

Levels

  1. 1 1. A Boy from the Military Frontier 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. The Rotating Magnetic Field and America 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Westinghouse and the War of the Currents 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Light, Lightning and the Tesla Coil 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Radio, Remote Control and Niagara 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Colorado Springs and Wardenclyffe 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Later Years: Hotels, Pigeons and a Death Ray 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Myth and Legacy 5-question quiz

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