**Nikola Tesla** July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943 - Serbian American inventor [[creepytesla | The creepy side of Tesla]] **Reference Desk:** ---- PBS Tesla Master of Lightning http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ https://archive.org/details/TeslaMasterOfLightning One of the best overall references on Tesla, seems to jump around at times but covers all the main points in Tesla's life. Some of the scenes look the same as ones in a Westinghouse documentary. ---- Nikola Tesla Biography ETHW http://ethw.org/Nikola_Tesla NAT GEO documentary 2015- Edison vs Tesla - American Genius http://americangenius.nationalgeographic.com/episode/edison-vs-tesla/ Nikola Tesla, The Electrical Experimenter, Volume VI, No. 70, February, 1919 http://anengineersaspect.blogspot.com/2013/09/nikola-tesla-writes-about-moon-rotation.html Top 11 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla http://energy.gov/articles/top-11-things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla Nikola Tesla and the Myth of the Lone Inventor http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/nikola-tesla-edison-inventors-apple-samsung-54501 The Cult of Nikola Tesla https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4345 Making Nikola Tesla a Saint Makes Us All Dumber http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/making-nikola-tesla-a-saint-makes-us-all-dumber-1308034624 Nikola Tesla: The Guy Who DIDN'T "Invent Radio" http://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm A scientist telling a pro-Nazi propagandist about his support for selective breeding. Now that's pretty interesting! Nikola Tesla the Eugenicist: Eliminating Undesirables by 2100 Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nikola-tesla-the-eugenicist-eliminating-undesirables-by-2100-130299355/ TED talk on Tesla: https://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_the_electric_rise_and_fall_of_nikola_tesla?language=en ---- [[Tesla Timeline|Tesla Timeline]] **Geek History pages:** Nikola Tesla the legacy of the most interesting geek in the world http://geekhistory.com/content/nikola-tesla-legacy-most-interesting-geek-world Nikola Tesla versus Thomas Edison and the search for the truth http://geekhistory.com/content/nikola-tesla-versus-thomas-edison-and-search-truth George Westinghouse used Tesla power to defeat Edison in Currents War http://geekhistory.com/content/george-westinghouse-used-tesla-power-defeat-edison-currents-war **Guru 42 pages:** Why is the world so damn obsessed with geek folk hero Nikola Tesla http://guru42.org/blog/why-world-so-damn-obsessed-geek-folk-hero-nikola-tesla **Questy pages:** FBI conspiracy theories and the lost files of Nikola Tesla #Myths #Legends http://questy.com/content/fbi-conspiracy-theories-and-lost-files-nikola-tesla What's behind the cult following for Nikola Tesla? #Myths #Legends http://questy.com/content/why-nikola-tesla-has-become-cult-hero Questy explores scams and hoaxes and stories behind conspiracy theories #Myths #Legends http://questy.com/content/weird-science-behind-conspiracy-theories-and-urban-legends