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Tesla Leaks: the WikiLeaks of Nikola Tesla

Photo illustration of Nikola Tesla's head on a Superman costume in front of a circuit schematic
The Tesla Leaks course artwork: Nikola Tesla rendered as Superman over one of his circuit diagrams

Synopsis

Archive of teslaleaks.com, Chris Edwards' 'WikiLeaks of Nikola Tesla' course built on Tesla's patents and timeline, with its two preparation PDFs: My Inventions and the Tesla Letters Timeline.

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Tesla Leaks (teslaleaks.com) billed itself as the "WikiLeaks of Nikola Tesla": a small course site run by Chris Edwards, its editor in chief, that taught the inventions of Nikola Tesla directly from his patents and his own timeline. The old Daily Dialectics linked to it from the Tesla section of the site's navigation.

The site has since gone offline. This page preserves what its homepage said, as captured by the Wayback Machine on 16 April 2022, together with the two preparation documents it distributed to students.

About the course

The homepage opened with a single invitation: "Become a not 'Woke' Genius by learning the 1000 Inventions of Nikola Tesla." Its "About Us" section carried the motto "Teaching the Art of Reality with Instinct, Intuition & Imagination."

  • Instructor. Classes were taught by Chris Edwards, the editor in chief of Tesla Leaks.
  • Built on the patents. The classes were designed around the Nikola Tesla patents, following what each patent describes: the apparatus, the system, the "art of", the manufacturing methods, the vernacular and the phenomena of his inventions, with the stated aim of turning what looks magical into the conventional reality of natural laws.
  • Format. The first two-hour weekly Zoom courses, with homework, began on September 13th 2021.
  • Scope. The courses started from the beginning of the Nikola Tesla Timeline and covered the inventions along with the science, math, biology, history and politics surrounding each idea, as they relate to logic and natural law. The site promised that nothing in the courses would be logically contradictory or violate natural laws.
  • Mission. Tesla Leaks pointed out that there are no official courses on Nikola Tesla in public schools. Its goal was to present the material clearly and concisely in order to resurrect Tesla's reputation and present him as the inventor of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

The homepage also featured two videos, listed as "Tesla – Not A Dream" and "Nikola Tesla – Wardenclyffe Tower". Their links were not recovered from the archive.

Preparation resources

Tesla Leaks asked students to read two documents before class. Both were recovered from the archived site and are hosted here. Click a cover to open it in the viewer.

Patent Nikola-Tesla-Autobiography — page 1
Patent Nikola-Tesla-Autobiography — Page 1
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Patent Tesla-Letters-Timeline — page 1
Patent Tesla-Letters-Timeline — Page 1
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Document Pages Viewer PDF
Nikola Tesla Autobiography — My Inventions 34 Open viewer Nikola-Tesla-Autobiography.pdf
Tesla Letters Timeline 24 Open viewer Tesla-Letters-Timeline.pdf
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla ↗ open full viewer

References

  1. Tesla Leaks - WIKILEAKS OF NIKOLA TESLA — archived homepage, Wayback Machine, 16 April 2022
  2. teslaleaks.com — original site, now offline
  3. Nikola_Tesla_Autobiography (pdf) — preparation reading distributed by Tesla Leaks
  4. Tesla_Letters_Timeline (pdf) — preparation reading distributed by Tesla Leaks

Related: Nikola Tesla · Tesla Timeline · Tesla Patents · Tesla's Flying Machine

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