Discs that drink the steam, a channel with no moving part that refuses to flow backward, the Hotel New Yorker years, and the last page of the notebook.
Tesla's disc turbine and valve worked by hand, tested against 2021 measurements, and the end of his story: 1943, John G. Trump and Belgrade.
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November 5, 2026
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26 min
Morgan's money, Stanford White's laboratory, a tower crowned with a sphere sixty-eight feet across, and the arithmetic of how much charge it could hold.
Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower: why the terminal was huge and smooth (E = V/r, C = 4πε₀r), Marconi in 1901, and an honest verdict on wireless power.
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November 5, 2026
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25 min
A storm walks east across the plains, my relay counts its nodes, and I spend five years deciding what was holding the waves still.
Tesla's night of 3 July 1899: the receding storm, his stationary waves, the 6 Hz of patent 787,412, and why Schumann's 7.83 Hz is a near-miss.
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November 5, 2026
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23 min
A barn on a plateau, a coil fifteen metres across, a free coil standing on a driven one, and the long work of finding its pitch.
Tesla's 1899 Colorado Springs notebook: the extra coil as a quarter wave, why a ball on top lowers its pitch, and three ways he measured capacity.
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November 5, 2026
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28 min
The egg that stands at Chicago, a laboratory lost to fire, shadows through forty feet, and the wheel at Niagara sending its power twenty-six miles to Buffalo.
Tesla's notebook, 1893 to 1896: why Niagara ran at 25 periods, why 11,000 volts saved the copper, and what a fire takes from an inventor and what it leaves.
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November 5, 2026
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25 min
London and Paris, 1892: a lamp lit through one wire and a hanging plate, Faraday's chair, Rayleigh's praise, a mother's death, and a sorrowful visit to Hertz.
Tesla's 1892 notebook: why a plate in the air can close a circuit, how to keep a terminal from brushing, and the storm that set his course for life.
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November 5, 2026
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26 min
A tube lit in empty air between two hanging sheets, and the arithmetic that says why frequency makes the impossible lamp easy.
Tesla's 1891 Columbia lecture: how an alternating electric field lights an exhausted tube, why only the field along it counts, and why frequency matters.
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November 5, 2026
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21 min
A sine is the shadow of a turning radius. With that one picture I could see every alternating circuit whole before a turn was wound.
RMS by integration, impedance, phase lag, power factor and series resonance, derived step by step from Tesla's geometric method of turning radii (proto-phasors).
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November 5, 2026
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22 min
A converter has no moving part and turns a thousand volts into fifty as quietly as a sum is carried in the head. I wanted to know exactly why.
Why a transformer needs alternating current: the ratio of turns, V = 4.44 f N Φ, magnetising current, eddy losses and laminations, worked in Tesla's voice.
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November 5, 2026
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29 min
