The Inventor From The Future
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A man you know. A story you don’t. His electric revolution lit up America but he also worked on what’s been called early radar, robotics, and... a death ray? Greg tells Maren the full story of this genius inventor, and also uncovers a link between him and Donald Trump!  Sources: EXPERT Marc Seifer - American author https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-nikola-tesla-and-his-tower-11074324/  “Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla” “Tesla: Man Out of Time”, plus a bunch of articles https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_america.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/#578815531a21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramme_machine https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/ac-vs-dc-alternating-current-or-direct-current-which-is-better.html https://www.dummies.com/programming/electronics/components/electronics-basics-what-is-alternating-current/  https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/alternating-current-ac-vs-direct-current-dc/all 
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