Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Medicine has come a long way from the days of bloodletting and drilling holes in skulls

to release the demons.

The more we learn about the human body, the better we get at curing what ails us.

Surgery are more precise, computerized scans give us a clear picture of what might be

going on inside us, and tiny cameras can access areas previously unseen.

But some problems cannot be cut out or removed.

In fact, some problems can't be fixed at all.

But that doesn't mean we can't try.

Back in 1917, one man believed that he could cure the brain of a common and debilitating

disease, one that plagued humanity across the globe.

That man was Nikolattesla, the inventor and electrical engineer known for his work on

the modern alternating current.

Since before we could charge our phones and earbuds simply by dropping them onto an inductive

charging pad, Tesla was working on a way to transmit AC power from his Tesla coil using

inductive and capacitive coupling.

That's just a fancy way of saying that he was inventing wireless lighting.

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