Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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Radio Control Devices - The First Demonstrations
By the end of the 18 nineties, tesle's ideas and inventions are getting more ambitious and even larger. He was dreaming of the scenario right where he could send electricity through the atmosphere and through the air. When he flipped his antenna, giant bolts did shoot off. So much so that, while experimenting in 18 99, suddenly, the power of nearby colorado springs was actually knocked out. For he had actually set off a fire in the power plants in the town, knocking everybody's electricity out. That'st Mean, that's something that, like, a mad scientist super villain would do in a movie. Oh, absolutely.
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