Wizard the life and times of Nikola Tesla : biography of a genius /
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, Wizard is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father...
| Main Author: | Seifer, Marc J., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Citadel Press,
1998.
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Heritage
- Childhood (1856-74)
- College years (1875-82)
- Tesla meets the wizard of Menlo Park (1882-85)
- Liberty street (1886-88)
- Induction at Pittsburgh (1889)
- Bogus inventors (1889-90)
- South fifth avenue (1890-91)
- Revising the past (1891)
- The royal society (1892)
- Father of the wireless (1893)
- Electric sorcerer (1893)
- The Flipovs (1894)
- Niagara power (1894)
- Effulgent glory (1894)
- Fire at the lab (1895)
- Martian fever (1895-96)
- High society (1894-97)
- Shadowgraphs (1896)
- Falls speech (1897)
- Luminaries (1896-98)
- Sorcer's apprentice (1896-97)
- Vril power (1898)
- Waldorf-Astoria (1898)
- Colorado Springs (1899)
- Contact (1899)
- Thor's emissary (1899)
- The hero's return (1900)
- The house of Morgan (1901)
- World telegraphy center (1901)
- Clash of the Titans (1901)
- The passing of the torch (1902)
- Wardenclyffe (1902-1903)
- The web (1903-1904)
- Dissolution (1904-1906)
- The child of his dreams (1907-1908)
- Bladeless turbines (1909-10)
- The Hammond connection (1909-13)
- J.P. Morgan Jr. (1912-14)
- Fifth column (1914-16)
- The invisible audience (1915-21)
- Transmutation (1918-21)
- The roaring twenties (1918-27)
- Faster than the speed of light (1927-40)
- Living on credit (1925-40)
- Loose ends (1931-43)
- The FBI and the Tesla papers (1943-56)
- The wizard's legacy.