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Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. Pioneer of alternating current, remote control, and wireless power. But the circumstances of his death are highly suspicious. Was Nikola Tesla murdered in a conspiracy to steal his death-ray plans? Or could he have been assassinated to stop enemy powers obtaining his devastating weapon? Deadly Intelligence: Nikola Tesla, Amazon 2018
In 1934, after a lifetime of scientific discovery, Serbian-American Nikola Tesla announces his invention of a revolutionary particle-beam weapon, the death-ray. ibid.
Nikola Tesla is found dead in his Manhataan hotel room. The timing of his death is suspicious, and so is the fact that his hotel safe is ransacked and personal papers taken. ibid.
The mysterious group was led by Tesla’s one nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who was a Yugoslav diplomat and not well-liked by his uncle. Kosanovich is named in the FBI files as a possible communist. ibid.
Top of the list Nazi Germany. Another possible culprit, Tesla’s home country, America. ibid.
In the winter of 1943 Nikola Tesla looked out across the Manhattan skyline for the very last time ... He saw a new world, a world transformed, a world powered by electricity, his world. Jim Al-Khalili, Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity 2/3: The Age of Invention
Harnessing the link between magnetism and electricity would completely transform the world. ibid.
[Michael] Faraday had proved that this invisible force really does exist and he could see its effect – circular motion. ibid.
Faraday had generated a continuous flow of electric current. ibid.
The key to understanding the telegraph is understanding a special kind of magnet – an electromagnet. ibid.
The 1858 cable was never fully repaired. ibid.
A new branch of research into the electromagnetic spectrum, and solve the problems of the Atlantic telegraph. ibid.
A new way of using electricity – to make something every person in the world would want – electric light. ibid.
[Thomas] Edison had assembled a group of young and talented engineers. ibid.
The race to bring electric light to the world was to play out in the great cities of the time. ibid.
America’s first power station generating continuous direct current. ibid.
Tesla was less impressed. He had a dream electricity could be transmitted across entire cities or even nations. ibid.
Westinghouse believed alternating current was the future. ibid.
Tesla was paid $75,000 for his alternating current patents. ibid.
Westinghouse and Tesla went toe to toe with Edison for New York’s lucrative lighting contracts. ibid.
Edison claimed that AC was a more dangerous type of current than DC. ibid.
In an almost magical display of awesome power and wonder and without wearing any safety chainmail or mast tens of thousands of volts produced by a Tesla coil passed across his body and through the end of a lamp he was holding. ibid.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the real world. The harnessing of the forces of Nature to human needs. Nikola Tesla
There is one electrical genius who was nearly forgotten. A man who dreamt of giving the world an unlimited supply of energy: his name was Nikola Tesla. And he was the master of lightning. Tesla: Master of Lightning, PBS 2004
This is the story of a modern Prometheus. ibid.
It was Tesla who patented the technology for wireless communications that is used in all radio and television broadcasting. ibid.
The electrical equivalent of the wheel; and all this was achieved with alternating currents. ibid.
Twenty-two US patents were awarded to Nikola Tesla. ibid.
The war of the currents was over and Tesla was the winner. ibid.
Tesla was at the height of social acclaim. ibid.
Tesla’s life-long obsession: the wireless transmission of energy. ibid.
To his dying day Tesla believed it could be done. ibid.
Scientists still disagree on whether beam weapons are realistic. ibid.
Nicola Tesla … catapulted our civilisation into the new age. The use of alternating current, radio, fluorescent lighting, remote control, and robots – a total of 700 patents. Phenomenon: The Lost Archives s1e9: The Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets of Nicola Tesla
Tesla laboratory mysteriously burns to the ground. ibid.
Tesla promises … free energy for everyone. ibid.
Tesla: The man who harnessed lightning. He envisoned technologies far before their time. He also believed in the possibility of communicating with other-worldly beings. Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most innovative and mysterious men to have ever lived. But was he simply a creative genius or might his brilliance have had extraterrestrial origins? Ancient Aliens s8e6: The Tesla Experiment
By the time of this death Tesla held nearly 700 worldwide patents. ibid.