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Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.
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Lieutenant Allan Childers was a deputy commander of the Titan II Missile Combat Crew. He was on duty the night of the accident in Damascus, Arkansas.
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Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century.
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Watch the opening scene of Tesla .
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The word “inventor” conjures images of a far-off past. Today, inventor Steve Hollinger keeps the spirit of innovation alive in his workshop.
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Wireless power seems cutting edge, but it was actually pioneered over 100 years ago by Nikola Tesla.
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Behind the Scenes
Harold Clark of the Liberty Science Center gives a demonstration of Nikola Tesla's wireless energy.
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During the last part of the 19th century, George Westinghouse had made his fortune through his invention, the railroad air brake.
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In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold.
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Nikola Tesla stunned audiences when he wirelessly lit up glass tubes filled with gas. He called it cold light.
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A hundred years before the world went "wireless," Nikola Tesla invented his Tesla coil, and wirelessly lit up his inventions.
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At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 160,000 light bulbs lit up the evening sky over Chicago.