Tesla: Signals. Rivals. Ruin.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Night Tesla Heard Mars Free1:55 On a Colorado hillside, three taps convince Nikola Tesla that another world may be trying to speak.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Employee Who Challenged Edison Locked1:48 Tesla enters Edison's laboratory as an immigrant engineer, then stakes his future on a radically different electrical system.
3. 03 Episode 3: The Fair That Turned Night Into Day Locked1:41 At the Chicago World's Fair, Tesla's electrical vision escapes the laboratory in a blaze of artificial daylight.
4. 04 Episode 4: The Waterfall Wired to a City Locked2:07 Niagara turns Tesla's electrical ideas into infrastructure before an unmanned boat reveals an even stranger ambition.
5. 05 Episode 5: The Laboratory Built for Lightning Locked1:33 Tesla follows the logic of his remote-controlled boat west, building a Colorado station where the planet itself becomes part of the circuit.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Meaning of Three Taps Locked1:31 Tesla hears a pattern in Colorado, but the distance between observation and interpretation becomes the series' central fault line.
7. 07 Episode 7: The Headline That Reached Mars Locked2:04 Tesla's disputed signal becomes mass entertainment as newspapers, musicians, inventors, and skeptics join the argument.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Tower Meant to Speak Everywhere Locked1:23 Wardenclyffe rises as Tesla's bid to turn wireless experiments into a secret, interference-resistant world system.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Tower That Money Silenced Locked1:43 Financial collapse destroys Tesla's grandest laboratory, forcing him to preserve his future through patents, articles, and increasingly isolated claims.
10. 10 Episode 10: The Weapon Tesla Left on Paper Locked1:36 An aging, solitary Tesla speaks of aircraft-melting beams as his death leaves federal officials intensely interested in his papers.
11. 11 Episode 11: The Papers That Crossed an Ocean Locked1:41 Tesla's dispersed records move from federal scrutiny to Belgrade and American archives, where thousands of documents begin a second life.
12. 12 Episode 12: The Patent Hidden Behind the Myth Locked2:12 Archivists use portraits, patent drawings, and technical language to measure Tesla's real engineering against a century of larger claims.
13. 13 Episode 13: When Science Began Listening Back Locked1:47 Decades after Tesla's taps, radio astronomy turns the sky into data and scientists build a disciplined search for communicating civilizations.
14. 14 Episode 14: The Record Built for Another World Locked2:10 Humanity answers the silence by launching a golden record filled with greetings, music, and instructions for an unknown listener.
15. 15 Episode 15: The Signal We Never Confirmed Locked1:54 Tesla's three taps remain unexplained, but his preserved work reveals why the world never stopped listening.