Marc J. Seifer has been featured in The Washington Post, Scientific American, Publisher's Weekly, Rhode Island Monthly, MITs Technology Review and The New York Times. His book Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla is “Highly Recommended” by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Career as a Tesla expert
Making extensive use of interlibrary loan and obtaining valuable leads from various Tesla experts, starting about 1976, Marc began to compile a chronology of Tesla’s life. His goal was threefold, 1) to verify which inventions should actually be credited to Tesla; 2) to find out why Tesla’s name disappeared from the history books; and 3) to find out precisely why Tesla’s great wireless enterprise, Wardenclyffe, funded by J. Pierpont Morgan, circa 1901-1906, failed. Travelling to Washington DC, to the Smithsonian Institute, and to the Library of Congress, obtaining the microfilm Tesla correspondence with such individuals as Morgan and Westinghouse, spending time in New York to look at archives at the J. Pierpont Morgan Library and Columbia University, the John Hays Hammond, Jr. Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts and the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), interviewing Tesla experts, relatives and people who knew Tesla, and using the Freedom of Information Act to peruse the FBI files and that of the Office of Alien Property, Marc began to fill in the blanks. To his amazement, Marc was able to establish that Tesla was indeed the primary inventor behind the clean energy and renewable hydroelectric power system, remote control, robotics and wireless communication. Tesla is also the inventor of fluorescent lighting, particle beam weapons and what became the Osprey helicopter/airplane.
In 1984, Marc spoke at the first International Tesla Society meeting held in Colorado Springs, and continued to speak at every Tesla conference presented biannually for the next dozen years. This, therefore put Marc in direct contact with every major Tesla expert including Andrija Puharich, Leland Anderson, James and Ken Corum, Toby Grotz, Tom Bearden, Tom Vellone and Alexander Marincic, head of the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Tesla’s grandnephew, Bill Terbo, would come to write the introduction to Marc’s acclaimed biography Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla, a book that quotes over 400 letters which has been translated into four languages, now in its 15th printing.
In 1996, Marc joined Bill Terbo, head of the Tesla Memorial Society, Ljubo Vujovic, MD, Secretary General of the Tesla Society of New York, and Ambassador Jovonavic, the representative from Serbia, to speak at the United Nations with the idea of having the world celebrate as one people, Tesla’s birthday, July 10 as a Day of Science. Ten years later, Marc met Les Drysdale, the sculptor of the Tesla statue placed on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, and joined the festivities of the statue’s July 10, 2006 unveiling. In 2010, Marc spoke at the Tesla Science Conference in Philadelphia on Tesla vs. Einstein, whereby Marc explained Tesla’s little known dynamic theory of gravity.
In 1980 in San Francisco, Marc presented his comprehensive slide presentation on Tesla to Academy Award winners, sound editor Richard Hymns, and film editor Walter Murch. Several years later, this talk was presented at West Point Military Academy, to Robert Watts, line producer for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Indiana Jones and Star Wars trilogies, at Niagara Falls (1991), the New York Public Library (1996), before the special effects experts at Lucasfilms Industrial Light & Magic (2001), on a book tour in Croatia and Serbia in 2007, at the Open Center in New York City and as the Keynote speaker for the IEEE/Professional Engineers of Ontario in Toronto in 2009 and at the Tesla Science Conference in Philadelphia in 2010. Full-page articles on Marc’s work on Tesla have appeared in The Washington Post (5/4/1993), The New York Times (2/23/1997; 5/5/2009) and The New Bedford Standard Times (3/14/1997), and a mock interview Marc did with Tesla was published in Wired Magazine (10/1998). Wizard has also been favorably reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, MIT’s Technology Review, Nature and Scientific American.
In 1988, Marc began a screenplay partnership on Tesla’s life with visual effects editor Tim Eaton http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2279239/ who he met at a Tesla conference. Tim’s credits include work on such movies as Field of Dreams, Back to the Future, The Doors, Rocketeer, Twister, Forest Gump, Men in Black, Deep Impact, Galaxy Quest, Scrooge, The Polar Express and Titanic. This work resulted in the screenplay reading at Producer’s Club Theater in New York City in 1996. Directed by Taylor Hallman, the reading had 14 actors. Marc’s u-tubes on Tesla’s life, which include one narrated by JT Walsh with an original score by Lincoln Center Violinist Marshall Coid, have had nearly 2 million hits. Another Tesla u-tube co-created with Marc and Tim was produced by Michael Feeney and his wife, Juanita Feeney, line producer for HBO specials Warm Springs, and Peter Sellers and the NBC show Ghost Whisperers. The shorts appear on Marc’s website http://www.marcseifer.com and http://www.theteslamovie.com . The U.S. State Department helped fund the translation of Wizard into Croatian.
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Website: www.marcseifer.com