Table of Contents

2 CHILDHOOD (1856-74)

3 COLLEGE YEARS (1875-82)

4 TESLA MEETS THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK (1882-85)

5 LIBERTY STREET (1886-88)

6 INDUCTION AT PITTSBURGH (1889)

7 BOGUS INVENTORS (1889-90)

8 SOUTH FIFTH AVENUE (1890-91)

9 REVISING THE PAST (1891)

10 THE ROYAL SOCIETY (1892)

11 FATHER OF THE WIRELESS (1893)

12 ELECTRIC SORCERER (1893)

13 THE FILIPOVS (1894)

14 NIAGARA POWER (1894)

15 EFFULGENT GLORY (1894)

16 FIRE AT THE LAB (1895)

17 MARTIAN FEVER (1895-96)

18 HIGH SOCIETY (1894-97)

19 SHADOWGRAPHS (1896)

20 FALLS SPEECH (1897)

21 LUMINARIES (1896-98)

22 SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (1896-97)

23 VRIL POWER (1898)

24 WALDORF-ASTORIA (1898)

25 COLORADO SPRINGS (1899)

26 CONTACT (1899)

27 THOR’S EMISSARY (1899)

28 THE HERO’S RETURN (1900)

29 THE HOUSE OF MORGAN (1901)

30 WORLD TELEGRAPHY CENTER (1901)

31 CLASH OF THE TITANS (1901)

32 THE PASSING OF THE TORCH (1902)

33 WARDENCLYFFE (1902-1903)

34 THE WEB (1903-1904)

35 DISSOLUTION (1904-1906)

36 THE CHILD OF HIS DREAMS (1907-1908)

37 BLADELESS TURBINES (1909-10)

38 THE HAMMOND CONNECTION (1909-13)

39 J. P. MORGAN JR. (1912-14)

40 FIFTH COLUMN (1914-16)

41 THE INVISIBLE AUDIENCE (1915-21)

42 TRANSMUTATION (1918-21)

43 THE ROARING TWENTIES (1918-27)

44 FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT (1927-40)

45 LIVING ON CREDIT (1925-40)

46 LOOSE ENDS (1931-43)

47 THE FBI AND THE TESLA PAPERS (1943-56)

48 THE WIZARD’S LEGACY

APPENDIX A THE MAGNIFYING TRANSMITTER: A TECHNICAL DISCUSSION

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