Nikola Tesla: Strange Genius

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The astounding mad scientist life of Nikola Tesla. Just who was this pioneer of radio, radar, and wireless communication? We discover his legacy in the work of today’s scientists and artists. Samantha Hunt’s novel The Invention of Everything Else is a fictional portrait of Tesla. Monologist Mike Daisey tells us how Tesla X-rayed Mark Twain’s head. And across the country, garage inventors toil in obscurity at the next breakthrough that will change the world.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.3	Studio 360.
0:09.1	It's Kurt Anderson.
0:11.5	When I travel, I like visiting the places where famous people lived.
0:16.9	I've been to Dostoevsky's apartment in St. Petersburg and James Thurber's Boyhood Home in Columbus, Ohio.
0:24.1	But in those places, you can't usually sleep in the famous people's bedrooms.
0:31.5	Thank you for calling me, Yucca Ramada. This is Vivian Medellarachukh.
0:34.9	Yeah, I'd like to reserve a room.
0:39.6	Reservation.
0:40.2	So I'm speaking.
0:40.8	How may I help you?
0:41.7	Yeah, I'd like to reserve a room.
0:42.5	One of the most important inventors of all time lived in Midtown Manhattan at the Hotel New Yorker.
0:48.6	It's now managed by Ramada.
0:50.9	And if possible, I'd like to reserve a particular room.
0:54.2	What room number would you like to request?
0:55.9	Room 3327.
0:58.7	That's two double bed room, non-smoking.
1:01.8	That's fine.
1:02.6	Okay.
1:03.7	So what did you get the room 3327 from?
1:06.2	It's a famous person used to live there, an inventor named Nicola Tesla.
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