Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a visionary and a recluse with a genius for invention. He’s also a hero in Serbia, where an author has created a new fictional account of Tesla’s incredible life and many achievements.

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.

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.

Tesla’s biggest innovation was introducing alternating current as the standard for modern electric power, breaking Thomas Edison’s monopoly on DC power. Mike Daisey is an author and monologuist who performs a one-man show about Tesla, and he tells us how AC/DC isn’t just a band.