Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.
Contents:
An Old World childhood -- Geniuses collide -- War of the currents -- High frequency -- Lionized and ionized -- Niagara Falls -- Who invented radio? -- X-rays, earthquakes, and robots -- Colorado Springs -- Wardenclyffe Tower -- Powerhouse in a hat -- Honors, welcome and otherwise -- War by electrical means -- Poet and visionary -- A weapon to end war -- Enigmatic to the end -- The paper trail -- The cosmic signature.
Summary:
A biography of the electrical engineer whose inventions included an amplifier, an arc light, transformers, Tesla coils, rotating magnetic field motors for alternating current, and others.
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