Contents

 

Introduction

 

Part One. Stranger from a Strange Land

1. Birth of a Visionary

2. Electric Brainwaves

3. Meeting Thomas Edison

4. The Westinghouse Corporation

 

Part Two. Unlimited Powers

5. Father of the Wireless

6. Niagara Falls

7. Tesla’s Extreme Science

8. In Colorado Springs

 

Part Three. Impossible Ideas

9. Taking On Marconi

10. Fresh Dreams of Flying

11. The Nobel Prize

12. Destroying the Dream

 

Part Four. Descent and Re-assessment

13. Talking to Pigeons

14. A New Source of Energy

15. The Final Days

16. Posthumous Recognition

 

Appendixes

17. Electrifying Science Facts

18. Tesla’s Friends and Contemporaries

19. Tesla’s Inventions

 

Further Reading