A mystery lies at the heart of the second book in the “Big Joe Carson” trilogy from longtime Chico resident David Dirks, now Brentwood-based. In the first, “Particle Beam (For Such A Time),” by Dirks ...
Lightning bolts at his command weren't enough for Nikola Tesla. The eccentric genius claimed he'd built something far deadlier—a particle beam weapon so powerful it could end all battles. Science or ...
One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he ...
In 1901, Nikola Tesla built the 190-foot Wardenclyffe Tower to transmit wireless energy across the planet. After his death in 1943, U.S. government agents seized his research — including designs for a ...