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Tower to the People – Saving Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe

By David J. Kent February 21, 2013 March 7, 2013 Movie Review, Nikola Tesla

In a previous post I talked about how Nikola Tesla, though largely ignored in the history books, had caught on as somewhat of a movie rock star. With David Bowie, no less. One of the movies mentioned in that post was an independent film co-written and directed by filmmaker Joseph Sikorski. The movie is called Fragments From Olympus: “The Vision of Nikola Tesla,” and in it “the enigmatic life of electrical genius Nikola Tesla unravels through a posthumous F.B.I. investigation into his particle beam research, including a new super weapon called the ‘death ray’.”

Sikorski and Vic Elefante, Production Supervisor for the film, recently attended the Tesla Memorial Conference at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City. Joe and Vic provided us in attendance with a double treat. First they previewed Fragments, then surprised the crowd with the introduction of a second effort, this one specifically focused on helping to save Wardenclyffe. An homage to the people who have worked so hard to raise the funds and negotiate the purchase of the Wardenclyffe property, the new effort is called Tower to the People: Tesla’s Dream at Wardenclyffe Continues. Check out the trailer:

Joe and Vic and all the others who are working on Fragments deserve tremendous credit for selflessly giving of their time and skills to develop the Tower project. They have collaborated with Jane Alcorn of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, the Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman, and myriad others, to help bring the name of Nikola Tesla back into its rightful place in history.

Nikola Tesla chapter outline is now in the publisher’s hands!

By David J. Kent April 29, 2012 April 30, 2012 Book, Nikola Tesla

My book chapter outline is contractually due May 1st and so I’m diligently adding the finishing touches so I can send it to the editor. Meanwhile, the contract is finally finished and the first installment of the advance should arrive within 30 days. (Yay!)

Here’s a preview:

Chapter 1: A Scientific Rock Star is Born

Chapter 2: Coming of Age in Europe

Chapter 3: The Odd Mr. Tesla

Chapter 4: Of Edison and Westinghouse

Chapter 5: A Man Always at War

Chapter 6: Wireless and Wardenclyffe

Chapter 7: Taking on Einstein

Chapter 8: Beyond the Grave – Conspiracies and Pop Culture

Chapter 9: A Lasting Legacy

It’s in!! I sent the Chapter Outline in to my editor at Sterling Press tonight. The signed contract gets put into snail mail tomorrow (yeah, snail mail, go figure).

Now back to the writing…

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About Me

David J Kent Lincoln Memorial centennial My name is David J. Kent. I am an Abraham Lincoln historian, a former career scientist, and a global traveler. Here is me in a nutshell:

- - Author of 7 books on Abraham Lincoln, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison
  - Author of chapters in 3 additional books
  - Over 200 articles in popular and scholarly magazines, journals, and newspapers
  - Over 200 presentations to a variety of interest groups
  - Editor of over 20 scholarly papers and dissertations
  - Contributed over 1,500 posts for a variety of blogs
  - Written hundreds of technical scientific reports
  - Recipient of around 50 awards and recognitions in both my scientific and Lincoln historian careers
  - World traveler to nearly 90 countries and territories (with more on the way)

Also:

Past President for the Lincoln Group of DC and previously for 4 scientific organizations
Currently on the Advisory Boards of three Abraham Lincoln organizations
Current Lincolniana Editor for the Lincoln Herald
Chairmanships for more than a dozen conferences and committees
Dozens of appearances on C-SPAN, local and national broadcasts, podcasts, radio, and other virtual and in-person media

I was the primary organizer and served as Master of Ceremonies for the Lincoln Memorial Centennial program in 2022. I also was the keynote speaker and presented the Gettysburg Address at the 2024 Lincoln Birthday Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. I have spoken at the dedications of other memorials and somber events.

My newest book is Lincoln, The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America. You can purchase it at any bookseller nationwide, as well as in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Signed copies can be ordered here. Here are two of the many advance praises for the book:

This is the first in-depth study of Abraham Lincoln’s interest in technology and science and how that interest impacted his life and his Presidency. As Kent demonstrates, Lincoln was a catalyst for some of that transformation wrought by science and technology.

– Marc Rothenberg, Ph.D., Editor, The Papers of Joseph Henry, and past Historian, National Academy of Sciences

David J. Kent, a man of science and of history, has skillfully combined his knowledge of both to write a masterful treatise on Lincoln’s scientific mind.

– Edward Steers, Jr., Ph.D., author of Blood on the Moon and Getting Right With Lincoln.

I also have two other books on Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate. Check them out here.

I’ve also written books about famous scientists – Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World, plus an e-book: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of His Time.

[Photo of David J. Kent at Lincoln Memorial Centennial courtesy of Bruce Guthrie]

Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America is available at booksellers nationwide.

Limited signed copies are available via this website. The book also listed on Goodreads, the database where I keep track of my reading. Click on the “Want to Read” button to put it on your reading list. Please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon if you like the book.

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David J. Kent is Immediate Past President of the Lincoln Group of DC and the author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America and Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America.

His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity andEdison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two specialty e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.