Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

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The "Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla" (ISBN 0806519606) is a 1998 biography book by Marc J. Seifer detailing the life of Nikola Tesla. Tesla developed radio, robotics, and radar, though few people know about his experiences and life. "Wizard" is a biography of Tesla and his technology. The book is the first major biography of Tesla to look at papers of Tesla's in the Tesla archives in Yugoslavia as well as manuscripts in the United States. Seifer also filed freedom of information requests to get documents from the FBI and other United States government agencies. [ Review of "Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius" Review author [s] : W. Bernard Carlson Isis, Vol. 90, No. 1. (Mar., 1999), pp. 138-139. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199903%2990%3A1%3C138%3AWTLATO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D ] ]

Citations to the work

;These publications have cited this book.
* Jasmina Vujic, Eng 24 Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World
* Fred Nadis, New world orders.
* Katherine Krumme, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: Thunder and Lightning
* Fred Nadis (2001). Of Horses, Planks, and Window Sleepers. Journal of Medical Humanities.
* Marc J Seifer, Nikola Tesla and John Jacob Astor

ee also

*George Westinghouse
*Death ray
*Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
*Wireless transmission
*Westinghouse Corporation
*Hugo Gernsback
*Robert Underwood Johnson
*Induction motor
*Elihu Thomson
*Tom Edison
*Guglielmo Marconi

Notes

Further reading

* Margaret Cheney, (2001). . 400 pages.
* Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, Jim Glenn (1999). Tesla, Master of Lightning. 184 pages.
* Carol Dommermuth-Costa (1994). . 128 pages.
* Thomas Valone (2002). Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature: Tesla's Science of Energy. 288 pages.


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