Tesla: Man Out of Time

Tesla: Man Out of Time (ISBN 0139068597) is a 1981 biography of Nikola Tesla by Margaret Cheney.

Tesla: Man Out of Time
AuthorMargaret Cheney
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPrentice Hall
Publication date
November 11, 1981
Pages320 pages
ISBN9780-139068591
OCLC7672251
621.3/092/4B 19
LC ClassTK140.T4 C47

Description

Tesla: Man Out of Time describes the life of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), the Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. Margaret Cheney's narrative details Tesla's childhood during the 1850s and 1860s in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, his 1884 arrival in New York, becoming an American citizen in 1891, his inventions and contributions to engineering, up to his death New York at age 86 during the middle of World War II in 1943. The book is focused 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. An Error of Judgement
  13. To Mars
  14. Robots
  15. Hurler of Lightning
  16. Blackout at Colorado Springs
  17. Magnificent and Doomed
  18. Ridiculed, Condemned, Combatted
  19. The Great Radio Controversy
  20. Midstream Perils
  21. The Nobel Affair
  22. Flying Stove
  23. Radar
  24. The Guest of Honor
  25. Pigeons
  26. Transitions
  27. The Birthday Parties
  28. Corks on Water
  29. Cosmic Communion
  30. Death and Transfiguration
  31. The Missing Papers
  32. The Legacy
  33. Bibliographical Essay
  34. Reference Notes
  35. Postscript
  36. Index
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