John W. Wagner

In the spring of 1983 I was browsing through the Allegheny College Library and found a book titled Prodigal Genius, The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O’Neill (1944). I had known about Tesla and his...

(Marconi and Edison notwithstanding.) Popular beliefs in history are often not factual and cannot bear scrutiny. Such is the case for the history of electricity, which ultimately led to radio. From...