Biographical - Page 7

"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...

Dr. F. David Peat's account of his investigation on behalf of the Canadian government, into the life and ideas of the eccentric genius Nikola Tesla, has become a classic. This new edition, completely...

Helen B. Walters, the mother of two children, was born in Portage, Wisconsin, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of innumerable articles and children's stories and a previous...

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age - Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse - battled bitterly as each vied to...