Nikola Tesla invented alternating current and the polyphase electrical system that powers every building on earth. He died alone in a New York hotel room, broke and feeding pigeons. Edison got the credit; Westinghouse got the business. Tesla got the physics right and everything else wrong.

This episode traces Tesla from Serbia through the Edison rivalry, the Westinghouse partnership, and the impoverished final decades.

• Tesla's AC motor vision and the brief employment by Edison
• The Westinghouse partnership and the War of Currents victory
• Wardenclyffe Tower's failure and financial ruin
• Death alone in the New Yorker Hotel with pigeons