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Marc Seifer: Tesla: Wizard at War, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power

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Tesla's Invention of Weakening Muscles

Clifford Tesla worked with a fellow who felt that if you send an electrical charge through the body, it would kill the cancer cells. He had a platform which vibrated and he said it created a peristolic action. In other words, it made you have to go to the bathroom. Mark Twain came over and he was constipated. And Tesla said, I got just the thing for you. It's a very funny story. So Twain gets on this platform and Tesla is laughing with Zito, right hand man. And all of a sudden Twain, his eyes live up and he runs out and he runs to the bathroom because the shaking of this platform actually helped him go

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