Tesla: Man Out of Time

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Tesla: Man Out of Time
Author Margaret Cheney
Language English
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Publication date 2001
Pages 400 pages

Tesla: Man Out of Time (ISBN 0743215362) is a biography of Nikola Tesla by Margaret Cheney

[edit] Description

Tesla: Man Out of Time describes the life of Nikola Tesla. Tesla laid the foundation for the rotating magnetic field, alternating current devices, robotics, computers, and missile science. Cheney details Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s. The book's focus is largely on Tesla's personality and not Tesla's inventions.

[edit] Contents / Chapters

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Modern Prometheus
  4. A Gambling Man
  5. Immigrants of Distinction
  6. At the Court of Mr Edison
  7. The War of the Currents Begins
  8. Order of the Flaming Sword
  9. Radio
  10. High Society
  11. High Road Low Road
  12. Robots
  13. Hurler of Lightning
  14. Blackout at Colorado
  15. Magnificent and Doomed
  16. Ridiculed Condemned Combatted
  17. The Great Radio Controversy
  18. Midstream Perils
  19. The Nobel Affair
  20. Flying Stove
  21. Radar
  22. The Guest of Honor
  23. Pigeons
  24. Transitions
  25. The Birthday Parties
  26. Corks on Water
  27. Cosmic Communion
  28. Death and Transfiguration
  29. The Missing Papers
  30. The Legacy
  31. Bibliographical Essay
  32. Reference Notes
  33. Postscript
  34. Index

[edit] See also

General
Volts, Wireless, Electric power transmission, Marconi Wireless, Zmaj, Death ray, Polyphase
People
George Scherff, George Westinghouse, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Katharine Johnson, J. P. Morgan, Michael I. Pupin, Anne Morgan
Locations
Colorado Springs, Belgrade, Budapest, Pittsburgh, Gospic, Ogulin, Buffalo, Graz, Chicago, Bridgeport


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