Prodigal genius : the life of Nikola Tesla

Format:

Book

Title:

Prodigal genius : the life of Nikola Tesla

Other title(s):

Life of Nikola Tesla

Author:

O'Neill, John J. (John Joseph), 1889-1953.

ISBN:

9781931882859

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Originally published in 1944. Includes partial list of Telsa patents.

Contents:

Light and power -- Fortune and fame -- Internal vibration -- Self-made superman -- Afterglow.

Summary:

Tesla's eccentric personality gives his life story the quality of the strangest romance. He made his first million before he was forty, yet gave up the royalties on his profitable invention as a gesture of friendship, and died almost in poverty. In this penetrating study of the life and inventions of a scientific superman, the life of Tesla is revealed.

Personal Subject:

Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.

Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943. (OCoLC)fst00028173

Subject(s):

Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.

Inventors -- United States -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	921 Tesla, Nikola 2008	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans, this is a definitive biography of the man without whom modern civilization would not exist. Nikola Tesla, pioneer of electrical engineering, was a close friend of Pulitzer Prize-winning author O'Neill, and here, O'Neill captures the man as a scientist and as a public figure, exploring: . how Tesla's father inspired his life in engineering . why Tesla clung to his theories of electricity in the face of opposition . how the shy but newly popular Tesla navigated the social life of New York in the gay 1890s . Tesla's friendship with Mark Twain . the story of Tesla's lost Nobel Prize . Tesla's dabblings in the paranormal . and much more.