Nikola Tesla and You

Nikola Tesla and You is a book in Fallout 3. It can be seen in several locations during the game and sometimes in the loading screen of the game. It contains information about directed energy weapons.

Trivia
The book is an obvious reference to the famous (sometimes infamous) Serbian-born inventor, Nikola Tesla, who is considered by many to be the most prolific inventor in the field of electrical and magnetic engineering of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Looking at the front cover of Nikola Tesla and You, the person to the left is probably a caricature of Nikola Tesla himself.

Tesla was said to have invented a "Death Ray", which is the most likely reason for his association with energy weapons in Fallout.

Tesla is also the inventor of the Plasma Lamp, a novelty item most popular in the 1980's, after his experimentation with high frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studying high voltage phenomena. Tesla called this invention an inert gas discharge tube. The modern versions were first designed by Bill Parker.