In this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors.
Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field—the basis of most alternating-current machinery—but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science.
Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties.
From Tesla’s childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered—and continue to transform—the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Modern Prometheus
- 2. A Gambling Man
- 3. Immigrants of Distinction
- 4. At the Court of Mr. Edison
- 5. The War of the Currents Begins
- 6. Order of the Flaming Sword
- 7. Radio
- 8. High Society
- 9. High Road, Low Road
- 10. An Error of Judgment
- 11. To Mars
- 12. Robots
- 13. Hurler of Lightning
- 14. Blackout at Colorado Springs
- 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
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Bibliographical Essay
- Reference Notes
- Postscript
- Index
- Copyright
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