Online biography of nikola tesla book

Wizard

By Marc J. Seifer

KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

Cover Page,
Excerpt,
Title Page,
Dedication,
FOREWORD,
PREFACE,
1 HERITAGE,
2 Boyhood (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 Ordinal AVENUE (1890-91),
9 REVISING THE Erstwhile (1891),
10 THE ROYAL SOCIETY (1892),
11 FATHER OF THE WIRELESS (1893),
12 ELECTRIC SORCERER (1893),
13 Excellence FILIPOVS (1894),
14 NIAGARA POWER (1894),
15 EFFULGENT GLORY (1894),
16 Blaze AT THE LAB (1895),
17 MARTIAN FEVER (1895-96),
18 HIGH SOCIETY (1894-97),
19 SHADOWGRAPHS (1896),
20 FALLS Articulation (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 Repay (1900),
29 THE HOUSE OF Buccaneer (1901),
30 WORLD TELEGRAPHY CENTER (1901),
31 CLASH OF THE TITANS (1901),
32 THE PASSING OF THE Set on fire (1902),
33 WARDENCLYFFE (1902-1903),
34 Honourableness WEB (1903-1904),
35 DISSOLUTION (1904-1906),
36 THE CHILD OF HIS DREAMS (1907-1908),
37 BLADELESS TURBINES (1909-10),
38 Rendering HAMMOND CONNECTION (1909-13),
39 J. Possessor. MORGAN JR. (1912-14),
40 FIFTH Form (1914-16),
41 THE INVISIBLE AUDIENCE (1915-21),
42 TRANSMUTATION (1918-21),
43 THE Shouting TWENTIES (1918-27),
44 FASTER THAN High-mindedness SPEED OF LIGHT (1927-40),
45 Existence ON CREDIT (1925-40),
46 LOOSE Overage (1931-43),
47 THE FBI AND Influence TESLA PAPERS (1943-56),
48 THE WIZARD'S LEGACY,
APPENDIX A THE MAGNIFYING TRANSMITTER: A TECHNICAL DISCUSSION,
APPENDIX B,
BIBLIOGRAPHY,
NOTES,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
INDEX,
ABOUT THE Hack,
Copyright,

CHAPTER 1

Heritage

Hardly is there precise nation which has met with straight sadder fate than the Servians. Evacuate the height of its splendor, just as the empire embraced almost the comprehensive northern part of the Balkan straight and a large portion of what is now Austria, the Servian sovereign state was plunged into abject slavery, back the fateful battle of 1389 suffer the Kosovo Polje, against the uncontrollable Asian hordes. Europe can never return the great debt it owes get on the right side of the Servians for checking, by honesty sacrifice of its own liberty, depart barbarian influx.

Nikola Tesla

It was during out crackling summer storm in Smiljan, wonderful small hamlet at the back accepting of a plateau set high jacket the mountains, when Nikola Tesla was born. The Serbian family resided shoulder the province of Lika, a savannah and gentle river valley in Hrvatska where wild boar and deer serene dwell and farmers still travel accept as true ox-drawn wagons. Only a cart impel from the Adriatic, the land report well protected from invasion by main, by the Velebit ridge to integrity west, which runs the length warm the province and towers over authority coastline as a steep cliff, beginning by the Dinaric Alps to influence east, a chain of mountains guarantee emerge from Austria, span the European peninsula and culminate in the southern as the isle of Crete.

Though arcane, Smiljan was centrally located, fifteen miles east of the tiny seaport introduce Karlobag, six miles west of nobleness bustling town of Gospic and xlv miles southwest of the cascading amazement known as Plitvice Lakes, an interlocking chasm of caves and streams nearby magnificent waterfalls that lie at decency base of the Dinaric chain.

In class early 1800s, having been briefly property of Napoleon's Illyrian provinces, Croatia was now a domain of Austria-Hungary. Put up with its neighboring Slavic countries of Bosnia, Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, Hrvatska was sandwiched between the ruling Hapsburg dynasty to the north and loftiness Ottoman Empire to the south.

In earlier times, and for many centuries, all the more of the coastline along the Sea was ruled by the Illyrians, orderly piratical tribe believed to have descended from regions around Austria. Successfully preservation their borders from such rulers thanks to Alexander the Great, many Illyrians rosebush into social prominence; some, at nobility time of Christ, became emperors.

Slavs, movement in close-knit clans known as zadrugas, were first recognized by the Byzantines in the second century A.D. nondescript the areas around what is carrying great weight Belgrade. Tesla's appearance resembled the specific features of the Ghegs, a seed described as being tall and taking accedence convex-shaped noses and flat skulls. Adore other Slavs, these people were from the first pagans and worshiped nature spirits submit a god of thunder and headlong. Tesla's early ancestors were probably autochthon in the Ukraine. They most unreliable traveled down through Romania into Srbija and lived near Belgrade, along magnanimity Danube. After the Battle of Province in the latter part of significance fourteenth century, they crossed the State plains into Montenegro and continued their migration northward into Croatia in depiction latter part of the eighteenth century.

All Slavs speak the same language. Loftiness major distinction between Croats and Serbs stems from the differences in representation histories of their respective countries. Honourableness Croats adopted the pope as their spiritual leader and followed the Popish form of Catholicism; the Serbs adoptive a Byzantine patriarch and the European Orthodox view. Whereas Roman priests stay behind celibate, Greek Orthodox priests may marry.

In the east and central regions Slavs were more successful in maintaining their own control over what came surpass be called the kingdom of Serbia; whereas in the west, in Hrvatska, outside rulers, such as Charlemagne coop up A.D. 800, occupied the region. Decide Croatia maintained the Christianization policies state under oath the Franks, the Serbs and Bulgarians drove out the papacy and resurgent their own pagan faith, which specified animal sacrifice and pantheism. Many donation the ancient pagan gods were obliged saints and were celebrated in grander esteem than Jesus. Tesla's patron ideal Nicholas was a fourth-century god who protected sailors.

To further alienate the pair groups, although speaking the same oral language, Croats adopted the Latin abcs, whereas Serbs and Bulgarians took get away the Cyrillic alphabet used by prestige Greek Orthodox church.

Before Turkish rule, the ninth century until the 1300s, Serbia had maintained autonomy. For Srbija, this period was its golden wild, as the Byzantines accepted its self-governing status. Due to the philanthropic connect of its kings, a dynamic antique art flourished, and great monasteries were erected.

Croatia, on the other hand, was in much more turmoil. Influenced unresponsive to western Europe, the ruling class attempted unsuccessfully to institute a feudal usage of lords and serfs. This code directly opposed the inherent structure conjure the democratic zadrugas, and so Hrvatska was never able to establish skilful unified identity. Nevertheless, one independent applicant of Croatia, Ragusa (Dubrovnik), which difficult to understand established itself as a port clever commerce and a rival of Venezia as a major sea power, became a melting pot for south Slavonic culture and a symbol for character Illyrian ideal of a unified Yugoslavia.

The identity of Serbia as a check account, however, changed for all time sensation June 15, 1389, the day 30,000 Turks obliterated the Serbian nation twist the Battle of Kosovo. Cruel conquerors, the Turks destroyed Serbian churches distressing converted them to mosques. Drafting grandeur healthiest male children into their scratch, they skewered and tortured the joe public and forced the women to transfigure and marry Turks. Many Serbs unhappy, taking up residence in the ragged mountains of Montenegro or the arcane valleys of Croatia. Some of those that remained became wealthy as Country vassals; others, mostly of mixed dynasty, became pariahs.

The Battle of Kosovo commission as important to the Serbs chimp the Exodus to the Jews make the grade the Crucifixion to the Christians. Die is commemorated every year on goodness anniversary of the tragedy as Vidov Dan, the day "when we shall see." As one Serb told illustriousness author, "It follows us always." Interpretation massacre and ensuing defilement of representation kingdom became the dominant motif have a hold over the great epic poems which served to unify the identity of grandeur Serbian people through their centuries firm hardship.

Unlike the Croats, who did shed tears have this kind of all-embracing urgency, the Serbs had Kosovo. Combined peer their adherence to the Greek Kosher religion in a twofold way, Serbs, no matter where they lived, matte united.

The century of Tesla's birth was marked by the rise of General. In 1809 the emperor wrested Hrvatska from Austro-Hungarian rule and established Nation occupation. Extending his domain down justness Adriatic coast, Napoleon reunited the Illyrian provinces and introduced French libertarian adage. This philosophy helped dismantle the ex feudal system of lords and serfs and reawaken the idea of wonderful unified Balkan nation. At the much time, the occupation created an indistinguishability with the French culture. Tesla's fond grandfather and maternal great- grandfather both served under the French emperor.

With shore up from the Russians, Serbian bands affiliated in 1804 under the leadership ship the flamboyant hog farmer George Petrovich, known as Kara-George (in Turkish, Grey George), a man of Montenegrin heirloom trained in the Austrian army. Banish, in 1811, Napoleon invaded Russia; as follows, support for Serbia evaporated.

Forty thousand Turks marched against the Serbs, leveling towns and butchering citizens. Serbs were over and over again executed by impalement, their writhing lined up along the roads blame on the city. All males captured stuckup the age of fifteen were slaughtered, and women and children were wholesale as slaves. Kara-George fled the country.

Milosh, the new Serbian leader, was nifty sly and treacherous character, able have got to walk a thin line between Serbs and the sultan. In 1817, like that which Kara-George returned, he was decapitated, circlet head sent by Milosh to City. A tyrant as terrible as Turkish pasha, Milosh became the certified head of Serbia in 1830.

One slate the more sapient figures of description day was the scholar and Serb Vuk Karadjich (1787-1864). Schooled in Vienna and St. Petersburg, Vuk believed "all Yugoslavs were one."

Pleading with Milosh respect build schools and to form smart constitution, Vuk created, with a learner, a Serbo-Croatian dictionary that combined rendering two written languages. He published position epic folk ballads, which gained illustriousness attention of Goethe, and through that means the Serbian plight and very its unique literature were translated most recent spread to the western world.

In Hrvatska, the land of Tesla's birth, Prince Ferdinand of Austria, in 1843, be communicated a proclamation forbidding any discussion pout Illyrianism, thereby helping keep the Serbs and Croats a separate people. Scheduled 1867 the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy was created, and Croatia became a semiautonomous province of the new empire. In the same breath, in Serbia, Michael Obrenovich was when all is said able to "secure the departure ... of the Turkish garrisons from Belgrade" and convert the state into on the rocks constitutional monarchy.

Tesla's background was thus top-hole mixture of crossed influences, a conventual environment, a Byzantine legacy of unmixed once great culture, and incessant battles against barbarous invaders. As a Serb growing up in Croatia, Tesla familial a rich mix of tribal rituals, egalitarian rule, a modified form admire Greek Orthodox Catholicism, pantheistic beliefs, be first myriad superstitions. Women cloaked their folk in black garb, and men difficult a cross in one pocket humbling a weapon in another. Living timepiece the edge of civilization, Serbs adage themselves as protectors of Europe exaggerate the Asian hordes. They bore go responsibility with their blood for various centuries.

CHAPTER 2

CHILDHOOD (1856-74)

Now, I must narrate you of a strange experience which bore fruit in my later sure of yourself. We had a cold [snap] siccative than ever observed before. People uninspiring in the snow left a humid trail. [As I stroked] Macak's affirm, [it became] a sheet of defray and my hand produced a drizzle of sparks. My father remarked, that is nothing but electricity, the exact thing you see on the also woods coppice in a storm. My mother seemed alarmed. Stop playing with the feline, she said, he might start uncluttered fire. I was thinking abstractly. Laboratory analysis nature a cat? If so, who strokes its back? It can matchless be God, I concluded.

I cannot inflate the effect of this marvelous scene on my childish imagination. Day back day I asked myself what hype electricity and found no answer. Fourscore years have gone by since plus I still ask the same agreed, unable to answer it.

NIKOLA TESLA

Nikola Discoverer descended from a well established confines zadruga whose original family name esoteric been Draganic. By the mid-1700s say publicly clan had migrated to Croatia, opinion the Tesla name arose. It was "a trade name like Smith ... or Carpenter," which described a trade ax that had a "broad cold blade at right angles to grandeur handle." Supposedly, the Teslas gained influence name because their teeth resembled that instrument.

The inventor's grandfather, also named Nikola Tesla, was born about 1789 avoid became a sergeant in Napoleon's Illyrian army during the years 1809-13. Intend other Serbs living in Croatia, Nikola Tesla, the elder, was honored surpass fighting for an emperor who sought after to unify the Balkan states person in charge overthrow the oppressive regime of influence Austro-Hungarians. He "came from a take off known as the military frontier which stretched from the Adriatic Sea be adjacent to the plains of the Danube inclusive of ... the province of Lika [where the inventor was born]. This self-styled 'corpus separatum' in the Hapsburg reign had its own military administration new from the rest of the kingdom, and therefore [they were] not subjects of the feudal lords." Mostly Serbs, these people were warriors whose chargeability was to protect the territory foreign the Turks. And in return, sundry the Croats, Serbs were able sharp own their own land.

Shortly after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Nikola Tesla married Ana Kalinic, the female child of a prominent officer. After representation collapse of Illyria, the grandfather alert to Gospic, where he and monarch wife could raise a family gratify a civilized environment.

On February 3, 1819, Milutin Tesla, the inventor's father, was born. One of five children, Milutin was educated in a German rudimentary school, the only one available pulse Gospic. Like his brother Josip, Milutin tried to follow in his father's footsteps. In his late teens of course enrolled in an Austro-Hungarian military institution but rebelled against the trivialities near regimented life. He was hypersensitive swallow dropped out after an officer criticized him for not keeping his demirep buttons polished.

Whereas Josip became an fuzz and later a professor of science, first in Gospic and then parallel a military academy in Austria, Milutin became politically active, wrote poetry, become more intense entered the priesthood. Influenced by grandeur philosopher Vuk Karadjich, Milutin promulgated character "Yugoslav idea" in editorials published interchangeable the local newspapers under the nom de plume Srbin Pravicich, "Man unsaved Justice." Tesla wrote that his father's "style of writing was much loved ... pen[ning] sentences ... full be expeditious for wit and satire." He called foothold social equality among peoples, the call for for compulsory education for children, tolerate the creation of Serbian schools compel Croatia.

Through these articles, Milutin attracted leadership attention of the intellectual elite. Guess 1847 he married Djouka Mandic, excellent daughter from one of the make more complicated prominent Serbian families.

Djouka's maternal grandfather was Toma Budisavljevic (1777-1840), a regal, white-bearded priest who was decorated with class French Medal of Honor by Cards himself in 1811 for providing greater number during the French occupation of Hrvatska. Soka Budisavljevic, one of Toma's cardinal children, followed the family tradition coarse marrying a Serbian minister, Nikola Mandic, who himself came from a noteworthy clerical and military family. Their colleen, Djouka, who was born in 1821, was Tesla's mother.

Eldest daughter of intensity children, Djouka's duties increased rapidly, imply her mother was stricken with shortcoming eyesight and eventually became blind.

"My indolence ... was a truly great bride of rare skill and courage," Inventor wrote. Probably due to the enormousness of her responsibilities, which included, case age sixteen, preparing for burial primacy bodies of an entire family desperate with cholera, Djouka never learned bring under control read. Instead, she memorized the beneficial epic Serbian poems and also unconventional passages of the Bible.

Tesla could pursue his lineage to a segment be in possession of the "educated aristocracy" of the Serb community. On both sides of dignity family and for generations there could be found clerical and military front, many of whom achieved multiple doctorates. One of Djouka's brothers, Pajo Mandic, was a field marshal in interpretation imperial Austro-Hungarian army. Another Mandic ran an Austrian military academy.

Petar Mandic, unadorned third brother and later favorite grub streeter of Nikola's, met with tragedy kind a young man when his bride passed away. In 1850, Petar entered the Gomirje Monastery, where he wine in the clerical hierarchy to grasp the regional bishop of Bosnia.

In 1848, through the help of the Mandic name, Milutin Tesla obtained a parishioners at Senj, a northern coastal central part located just seventy-five miles from blue blood the gentry Italian port of Trieste. From rank stone church, situated high on rigid cliffs, Milutin and his new mate could overlook the blue-green Adriatic Main and the mountainous islands of Krk, Cres, and Rab.

For eight years distinction Teslas lived in Senj, where they sired their first three children: European (pronounced Dah-nay), born in 1849, magnanimity first son, and two daughters, Angelina, born the following year, who would later become the grandmother to rectitude current honorary head of the Artificer Memorial Society, William Terbo, and Milka, who followed two years later. Chimp with her other two sisters survive like her mother, Milka would someday marry a Serbian Orthodox priest.

Djouka was proud of her son, Dane, who used to sit with the fishermen on the shore and bring standoff stories of great adventure. Like sovereign younger brother, who was yet get at be born, Dane was endowed come to mind extraordinary powers of eidetic imagery.

Due manage a profound sermon on the topic of "labor," as a result go along with which Milutin was awarded a allimportant red sash by the archbishop, glory minister was promoted to a laity of forty homes in the arcadian farming village of Smiljan, situated six miles from Gospic. Milutin was returning home, where his father pull off lived. In 1855, the young clergyman, his pregnant wife, and his two children packed their oxcart and through the fifty-mile journey over the Velebit ridge through the Lika valley bump into their new dwelling.

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