The Life of Nikola Tesla | Human Voiced, No Ads
00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:01:33 The Early Days (1856–1880)
00:12:21 AC Idea and Coming to America (1881–1884)
00:25:02 War of the Currents and Triumphs (1888–1893)
00:35:35 Experiments and Celebrity (1893–1899)
00:46:07 Wardenclyffe Tower (1899–1905)
00:55:02 Later Inventions and Eccentricities (1905–1925)
01:01:42 Final Years and Legacy (1925–1943)
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Sources and Further Reading
Tesla, Nikola. (1919). My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. (Originally published as a series in Electrical Experimenter magazine).
Martin, Thomas Commerford. (1894). The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla. (A compilation of Tesla’s early lectures, patents and articles, with commentary).
O’Neill, John J. (1944). Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla. (Biography by a journalist who knew Tesla, written soon after Tesla’s death).
King, Gilbert. (2013). “Nikola Tesla and the Tower That Became His ‘Million Dollar Folly’.” Smithsonian Magazine. (Historical article detailing Tesla’s Wardenclyffe project, updated 2024).
Cheney, Margaret. (1981). Tesla: Man Out of Time. (Well-researched biography covering Tesla’s life and legacy).
Seifer, Marc J. (1996). Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla. (Comprehensive scholarly biography of Tesla).
Carlson, W. Bernard. (2013). Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. (Academic biography analyzing Tesla’s engineering work and context).
New York Times. (1943). “Tesla, Electrical Genius, Dead.” New York Times, Jan. 8, 1943. (Contemporary obituary describing Tesla’s life and achievements).
Britannica, Encyclopaedia. (2021). “Nikola Tesla’s Weird Obsession with Pigeons.” (Article by Don Vaughan, illustrating Tesla’s later life habits and pigeon anecdote).
Tesla Museum (Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade). (1952). Nikola Tesla: Lectures, Patents, Articles. (Collection of primary documents and personal correspondence, providing insight into Tesla’s own accounts and contemporary records).
Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.