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The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”
By the 1930s Nikola Tesla was in dire straits. The onetime savant who had revolutionized the world with his electrical inventions was now a decrepit old man shuffling between hotels in Manhattan, hoarding newspapers and birdseed. When the unpaid bills at one hotel grew too large, he’d simply move on to another, his waning fame his only currency. From the height of his celebrity, Tesla’s decline had been slow but steady.
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