Nikola Tesla Books
Scullin, Geo. "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century," True, Aug., 1958, pp. 57-59, 90-94. (Nikola Tesla battled Thomas Edison and won. He wired the world for progress.) (p)
Strand, Harold P. "Building a Miniature Tesla Coil," Science & Mechanics; Aug., 1958, pp. 134-137, (Part I); Oct., 1958, pp. 139-143 (Part II). (Complete instructions for apparatus having 60,000 volts at 500,000 cycles per second.) (p)
Hickernell, L. F., Pres. "The Institute's 75th Anniversary Celebration," Electrical Engineering N. Y., Oct., 1958, pp. 889-891. (Reference to famous quotation by Edison and Kelvin showing error in judgement in the battle of AC vs. DC.) (p)
Grove, Richard. "The Wizard of East Pike's Peak," Colorado Magazine, Oct., 1958, pp. 266-270, vol. 35. (Notes on Tesla's Colorado experimental station.) (p)
"Dobro se ostvaruje program elekdrifikacije Smilhana - Rodnog mjesta Nikola Tesla." (Program for Electrification of Smiljan, Birthplace of Nikola Tesla, is Progressing Well.) Tesla - Beograd, Vol. V (1958), No. 5, p. 63. (fp)
"Razvoj i delatnost Jugoslavenskol društva za sirenje i unapredenje nauke i tehnike 'Nikola Tesla'." (The Development and Work of the Jugoslav Society for the Propogation and Advancement of Science and Technics, 'Nikola Tesla'.) Tesla - Beograd, Vol. V. (1958), No. - New 6, pp. 58, 59. (fp)
Allen, W. Gordon. "Space-Craft From Beyond Three Dimensions," York: Exposition Press, 1959, pp. 46-49, 93, 98, 99. (b)
America (Serbian Almanac Calendar). 1959. (Article by Stephen Stepanchev, "Pupin, Michael: Symbol of Immigrant Achievement," p. 17.) (b)
Beckhard, A. J. Electrical Genius: Nikola Tesla. Messner, 1959, 192 pp. (Juvenile biography of Nikola Tesla in story form.) (b)
Josephson, Mathew. Edison, New York: McGraw-Hill Co., 1959. (Mentions Tesla's work with Edison, and AC power transmission developments, pp. 233, 259, 346, 350.) (b)
Mehling, Harold. The Scandalous Scamps: A Gallery of American Rogues. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1959, 211 pp. (Chapter XI: "A Gaggle of Sharpshooters", pp. 206-208, credits Tesla for his fundamental contributions, but discusses at length, when almost eighty, that he slipped into a field that had been thoroughly mined by crackpots - "the death ray".) (b)
Prpic, George. The Croats in America. Washington, D. C.; Unpublished doctoral dissertation - Georgetown University (Dept. of History), 1959. (Biographical data on Nikola Tesla, who is the best example of how an individual's ideas can be quickly forgotten, pp. 377-385. Biographical lists, pp. 652, 653.) (b)
