Welcome to Invisible Histories Season 3 Episode 1! 

Our "back to school" September episode is all about the iconic and mysterious Nikola Tesla. Sharpen your pencils and fire up your oscillators!

We had the pleasure to talk with Jeff Behary about his work, and specifically as the official historian for the Nikola Tesla family.

Join us on this month’s episode was we talk with Jeff about his Tesla archive, the Electrotherapy Museum, Tesla as an inventor, and the future practicalities of world wireless power and energy distribution.

Come see our specultative theater production, "Tesla's Scintillating Salon" at the Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair on 9/21 at 5pm and 9/22 at 4pm.

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Recorded at Works Progress Cooperative in Seattle WA 2024 - Seattle’s only cooperatively run coworking space - www.worksprogress.coop 

Audio edited by Elke Hautala

Zoom recording 9/5/24

Show Notes:

Jeff Behary's Electrotherapy Museum in Riviera beach, Florida

Jeff's archive about Nikola Tesla

Georgetown Steam Plant Science Fair

“The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As a Means for Furthering Peace," from Electrical World and Engineer, January 7, 1905).

The Problem Of Increasing Human Energy — With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy.

Nikola Tesla: Free Unlimited Wireless Energy Speech

Studio360: Tesla and Twain

Nikola Tesla's hometown in Smiljan Croatia

Seattle map from 1908

Music: Operatic Rag from the Library of Congress 1910

Cari Simson and Elke Hautala formed Invisible Histories to visually and viscerally connect the public to experiences from the past. Their Invisible Histories podcast unearths diverse local stories and forgotten places. www.invisible-histories.com

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