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Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla

Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla

O'Neill, John J.

Hardcover

Series: Cosimo Classics Biography

Biographies GeneralMetaphysical General

ISBN10: 1602067430
ISBN13: 9781602067431
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Aug 1 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans, this is a definitive biography of the man without whom modern civilization would not exist. Nikola Tesla, pioneer of electrical engineering, was a close friend of Pulitzer Prize-winning author O'Neill, and here, O'Neill captures the man as a scientist and as a public figure, exploring: . how Tesla's father inspired his life in engineering . why Tesla clung to his theories of electricity in the face of opposition . how the shy but newly popular Tesla navigated the social life of New York in the gay 1890s . Tesla's friendship with Mark Twain . the story of Tesla's lost Nobel Prize . Tesla's dabblings in the paranormal . and much more. JOHN JOSEPH O'NEILL (b. 1889) also wrote Engineering the New Age and You and the Universe: What Science Reveals.

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