“There is this myth that Tesla, in the years before his death, was an old man feeding the pigeons and basically living the life of a hermit in New York,” says Marc Seifer. “But what I discovered was that this wasn’t strictly true.” The final years of Tesla’s life during the 1930s are often overlooked, his increasingly outlandish designs and inventions dismissed. Yet in Seifer’s research he discovered that one of these creations was actually taken very seriously indeed - the Teleforce, or particle beam weapon.
