In addition to a death mask, a cast of the dancer's leg was also made at the time of her death. Ullstein Bild Dtl. / ullstein bild via Getty Images 18.Nikola Tesla The famed inventor who ...

Looking at the nearly half a century that led up to Nikola Tesla’s lonely and confounding death in 1943, it’s not hard to see how he ended up where he did. What is hard, however, is ...

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 ...