Nikola Tesla

Elephants and Radium Girls

In The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander has taken on two strange and disturbing events from the early […]

Violet Fire, the opera about Nikola Tesla that I worked on as librettist with composer Jon Gibson, is finally getting a studio

Today is the 160th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth. Tesla was a seer of electricity, whose vision of a world transformed with

On March 18, 1916—one hundred years ago today—the New York World ran an article with the headline: “Tesla No Money

Jeanne Jaffe’s ambitious Elegy for Tesla is a high-tech, dreamlike and heartfelt meditation on Nikola Tesla, the legendary scientist and inventor.

Nikola Tesla is a hero to geeks everywhere, who will be celebrating his birthday this week. World-famous in his lifetime, the

I’ve just written a guest post for The Head & The Hand Press, considering how Mark Twain’s innovations in publishing could be

I loved seeing Gravity. In my opinion, the Planet Earth should be nominated for a supporting-player Oscar. I drank in the massive,

There’s something about the inventor Nikola Tesla that has strongly attracted artists—much more than his arch-rival Edison, let’s say. Tesla’s