Nikola Tesla Books
Dr. Dennis P. Malone, Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Buffalo, widely published and internationally respected specialist in his field, member of our Board of Directors and Chairman of the TMS Scholarship Committee, has been very active and generous in drawing attention and well deserved recognition to Tesla's insufficiently known and inadequately appreciated work. In addition to his excellent lecture on this great scientist and engineer delivered June 27, 1980 before the Niagara County Historical Society in Lockport, New York, and published in this issue, Dr. Malone, in cooperation with Dr. Dollinger and Dr. Sarjeant as well as several students, worked very hard and very ably on organizing and setting up the current Tesla Exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Recently, he was selected a Faculty Exchange Scholar, State University of New York Central Administration, Albany, New York. Dr. Damir Mirkovich, Anthropologist, Jurist, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, and member of our Society's Board of Directors, recently authored a scholarly volume on Dialectics and Sociological Thought (St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 7J8, Diliton Publishing Inc., P.O. Box 1359, 1980). Dr. Nicholas MoravÄevich, Professor of Comparative Literature, Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, noted and esteemed research scholar, successful administrator, and member of our Board of Directors, has published, among numerous other works, an elegantly written and penetrating essay on "The Image of the Turk in NjegoÅ¡'s Mountain Wreath" in Serbian Studies, 1 (1): 64-75 (Spring, 1980). During the recent Serbian Heritage Conference at the University of Toronto (May 15-17, 1981), Professor MoravÄevich presented an oustanding critical and analytical essay on the "Character of Nikola PaÅ¡iÄ in the Novel A Time of Death" by the most prominent living Serbian novelist Dobrica ÄosiÄ. Earlier this year, Dr. MoravÄevich traveled to Poland and Yugoslavia where he met academic colleagues in his and related fields and worked out appropriate arrangements for a non-political cultural cooperation and exchange between his University and institutions of higher learning in these East European countries. Dr. MoravÄevich is also the distinguished and able editor of Serbian Studies, whose second issue (Spring, 1981) has just been released. Despite a few (apparently unavoidable) typographical errors, this handsome journal is rich and diverse in content, intellectually scintillating and likely to become, along with the first issue (Spring 1980), a collector's item. It can be ordered from NASSS by writing to: North American Society for Serbian Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1228 UH, Box 4348, Chicago, Illinois 60680. Dr. Michael Boro Petrovich, Professor of Russian and Balkan History at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, historian and humanist of internationally recognized stature, man of enormous, comprehensive and profound learning and of too many talents and accomplishments to enumerate, member of our Board of Directors and author of the monumental two-volume work A History of Modern Serbia 1804-1918 (New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), has produced many other contributions including numerous scholarly articles published in American and foreign journals. Besides, he expertly translated a whole list of important historical, cultural and literary volumes from Serbo-Croatian into English. Recently, Professor Petrovich delivered two major papers: "Nikola PaÅ¡iÄ and the Russians" at the Serbian Conference in Toronto (May 15-17, 1981) and "The Medieval Bulgarian State in Bulgarian Romantic Historiography" at the solemn observance of the 1300th Anniversary of the Founding of the Bulgarian State in Sophia (Summer, 1981). As the reader may have noticed, this first issue of the TMS Journal contains his brilliant address on "Tesla: The Known, Unknown, and Unknowable", delivered before the Society's annual meeting in Niagara Falls, New York, on July 12, 1980 and published, almost in its entirety, in the Congressional Record (Proceedings and Debates of the 97th Congress, First Session), Vol. 127, No. 62, Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 1981. Dr. Nikola R. PribiÄ, (Ret.) Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Florida State University, Tallahassee, internationally known authority in the field of Slavic Studies and Comparative Literatures, author of a lengthly bibliography of scholarly works and member of our Board of Directors, recently spoke at two international academic gatherings: The Serbian Heritage Conference at the University of Toronto (May 15-17, 1981) and the solemn observance of the 125th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikola Tesla in his native Lika, Croatia, Yugoslavia (July, 1981). At the first of these symposia, Dr. PribiÄ presented a scholarly analysis of the gifted Serbian satirist Radoje DomanoviÄ, and at the second, a talk on the still to be corrected injustices suffered by his kinsman, fellow countryman and namesake Nikola Tesla. Like Dr. Nikola PribiÄ, Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American born in Croatia and equally proud of his Serbian people and his Croatian homeland. On this occasion, Dr. PribiÄ was accompanied by 22 22
