Tesla: Man Out of Time

Tesla: Man Out of Time
Author(s)	Margaret Cheney
Language	English
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	October, 2001
Pages	400 pages
ISBN	0743215362
OCLC Number	47255250
Dewey Decimal	621.3/092 B 21
LC Classification	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. Tesla laid the foundation for the rotating magnetic field, alternating current devices, robotics, computers, and missile science. Cheney details Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s. The book's focus is largely on Tesla's personality and not his inventions.

Contents / Chapters

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. Modern Prometheus
4. A Gambling Man
5. Immigrants of Distinction
6. At the Court of Mr Edison
7. The War of the Currents Begins
8. Order of the Flaming Sword
9. Radio
10. High Society
11. High Road Low Road
12. Robots
13. Hurler of Lightning
14. Blackout at Colorado
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
31. Bibliographical Essay
32. Reference Notes
33. Postscript
34. Index

See also

General

Volts, Wireless, Electric power transmission, Marconi Wireless, Zmaj, Death ray, Polyphase

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

External links

• Simon & Schuster website