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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Introduction: OVERVIEW OF A GENIUS
Chapter 1: BEGINNINGS
Homeland
Early Visions and Scientific Intuition
Early Education and the Possibility of Advanced Power
Junior High School—Formulating Theories
High School
Chapter 2: HIGHER EDUCATION—JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Learning About Electricity
The Physics of Electricity
Second-Year Studies—Thoughts of Alternating Current
College Dropout
Budapest—Proving the Possibility of Alternating Current
Paris—Working for the Edison Organization
Off to America
Chapter 3: THE PHOENIX RISES
Working for the Wizard
After Edison
Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company
Down in the Ditches
Tesla Electric Company
Chapter 4: SOARING
Thomas Commeford Martin and the AIEE Lecture
Enter George Westinghouse
AC vs. DC: “War of the Currents”
Paris and Radio Discoveries
Chapter 5: THE “BIG SHOW”
Back in the U.S.A.
Generosity to Westinghouse
Telluride
Tesla Coils
Columbia College Lecture
Citizenship
London and Paris Lectures
Staying on in Europe
Shaping a Grandiose Plan
World's Columbian Exposition
Chapter 6: ELECTRIFYING DREAMS
Harnessing Niagara Falls
Disaster Strikes
Success at Niagara Falls
Dreaming Big
The Lap of Luxury
Chapter 7: FOLLIES ABOUND
Colorado Springs Experimental Station
Missions Accomplished
Back in New York
“The Problem of Increasing Human Energy”
J.P. Morgan's $$$$$$$
Wardenclyffe
Erecting the Tower
Broke and Broken
Chapter 8: RIDING THE ROLLER COASTER: NEW INVENTIONS, BANKRUPTCY, HONORS
Persevering
Turbines
Speedometers
Flying Stoves, Flivvers, and VTOLs
Hovercraft
Radar
Bankruptcy
Nobelists
The Edison Medal
Chapter 9: ENDINGS
Heralding the Future
More Speculation
Final Years
Afterwords
FURTHER READING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
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