Biographical - Page 5

The work that represents the most reliable testimony about numerous, important, and often crucial details from the life and work of one of the greatest inventive and scientific minds in the whole...

The authors of Lightning in His Hand - popular writers and lecturers upon the history of the West - became interested in the story of Nikola Tesla in doing the research for their book To Colorado's...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who...

Though chosen to share the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edison, Nikola Tesla refused the award and during his life tore up royalty contracts which would have earned him millions of dollars. Tesla...

“Nikola Tesla stalks through Mr. O'Neill's pages, the fantastic figure that he was in life - a celibate recluse who sought supreme control over matter and energy, a Dr. Faustus who cared nothing for...

Nikola Tesla's youth in Croatia was filled with adventures and inventions. A brilliant student, he took advantage of his uncanny ability to visualize complex machinery in his mind's eye, creating...

A titan among scientists, Nikola Tesla invented the alternating current motor and thus released the sleeping giant of electricity. He harnessed the savage power of Niagara Falls, invented the...

Born in the tiny Croatian town of Smiljan in 1856, Nikola Tesla was to become one of the greatest scientists of all time. The true inventor of radio, Tesla developed the technology that harnessed...

Nikola Tesla was the reclusive, brilliant electrical engineer who: Invented the Niagara power system that made Edison's system obsolete - Sold Westinghouse forty patents that broke the General...

Everybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydroelectric power...