Tesla: Man Out of Time
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| Author | Margaret Cheney |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | October, 2001 |
| Pages | 400 pages |
| ISBN | 0-7432-1536-2 |
| OCLC | 47255250 |
| 621.3/092 B 21 | |
| LC Class | TK140.T4 C47 2001 |
Tesla: Man Out of Time (ISBN 0743215362) is a biography of Nikola Tesla by Margaret Cheney.
Description
Tesla: Man Out of Time describes the life of Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), the Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. Margaret Cheney's narrative details Tesla's childhood during the 1850s and 1860s in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, his 1884 arrival in New York, becoming American citizen in 1891, his inventions and contributions to engineering, up to his death New York at age 86 during the middle of World War II in 1943. The book is focused largely on Tesla's personality and not his inventions.
Contents / Chapters
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Modern Prometheus
- A Gambling Man
- Immigrants of Distinction
- At the Court of Mr Edison
- The War of the Currents Begins
- Order of the Flaming Sword
- Radio
- High Society
- High Road Low Road
- Robots
- Hurler of Lightning
- Blackout at Colorado
- Magnificent and Doomed
- Ridiculed Condemned Combatted
- The Great Radio Controversy
- Midstream Perils
- The Nobel Affair
- Flying Stove
- Radar
- The Guest of Honor
- Pigeons
- Transitions
- The Birthday Parties
- Corks on Water
- Cosmic Communion
- Death and Transfiguration
- The Missing Papers
- The Legacy
- Bibliographical Essay
- Reference Notes
- Postscript
- Index
See also
- General
- Volts, Wireless, Electric power transmission, Marconi Wireless, Zmaj, Death ray, Polyphase, Neurosis
- People
- George Scherff, George Westinghouse, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Katharine Johnson, J. P. Morgan, Michael I. Pupin, Anne Morgan, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi
- Locations
- Colorado Springs, Belgrade, Budapest, Pittsburgh, Gospic, Ogulin, Buffalo, Graz, Chicago, Bridgeport