9. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, June 15, 1894, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
10. New York Times, March 14, 1895, p. 9; New York Herald, March 14, 1895, Electrical Review, March 20, 1895.
11.Electrical Review, London, March 15, 1895, p. 329.
12. Charles Dana, New York Sun, March 14, 1895, p. 6 (editorial).
13. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, March 14, 1895, Tesla Museum, Belgrade.
CHAPTER 10. AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT
1. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Alfred Schmid, March 30, 1895, Library of Congress.
2. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Alfred Schmid, April 3, 1895, Library of Congress.
3. Michael Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922).
4. Ibid.; see also Josephson, Edison, pp. 381–83; Nikola Tesla, “On Roentgen Rays,” Electrical Review, March 11, 1896, pp. 131–35. Same issue, “Tesla Radiographs,” p. 134; also March 18, pp. 146, 147; April 8, 1896, pp. 180, 183, 186. See also Electrical World, March 28, 1896, 343–44.
5. Pupin, Immigrant.
6.Electrical Review, New York, April 14, 1897, p. 175; see also Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900: commentaries, Aleksandar Marinčić, p. 398, Tesla Museum, Belgrade.
7. Letter, Prof. Walter Thumm, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, to Nick Basura, May 23, 1975, p. 2.
8.Electrical Review, March 11, 18, April 8, 1896.
9. Josephson, Edison, p. 382.
10. Robert Conot, Streak of Luck (New York, Seaview Books, 1979).
11. Letter, Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor to author, 1980.
12. Tesla, “On Roentgen Rays,” p. A-31.
13. New York Times, March 12, 1896, p. 9, col. 3.
14. Nikola Tesla, “Tesla on Hurtful Actions of Lenard and Roentgen Rays,” Electrical Review, May 5, 1897, pp. 207–11.
15. New York Herald, undated anonymous article written two years after Tesla’s laboratory fire of March 13, 1895. Butler Library, Columbia University.
16. Ibid.
CHAPTER 11. TO MARS
1. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, April 3, 1896, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, summer 1896, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
3. Letter, Robert U. Johnson to Tesla, January 10, 1896, Columbia University, Butler Library.
4. Microfilm letter, Robert U. Johnson to Tesla, October 25, 1895, Library of Congress.
5. Letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, March 13, 1896, Butler Library, Columbia University.
6. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, December 26, 1896, Tesla Museum, Belgrade.
7. Electrical Review, August 11, 1897; see also New York Sun, August 4, 1897.
8. Anderson, “Priority.”
9.Electrical Review, August 11, 1897, p. X. See also New York Sun, August 4, 1897.
10.Electrical Engineer, London, August 20, 1897, p. 225. From New York Journal, August 4, 1897, p. 1.
11.Electrical Review, August 11, 1897; Electrical Engineer, New York, June 23, 1897, p. 713.
12.Electrical Review, August 11, 1897.
13.Electrical Review, March 29, 1899, p. 197.
14. Ibid.
15. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, January 12, 1896, Tesla Museum, Belgrade.
16. O’Neill, Genius, pp. 161–62.
17. A. L. Benson, The World Today, Vol. XXI, No. 8 (February 1912).
CHAPTER 12. ROBOTS
1.Mining & Scientific Press, January 15, 1898, p. 60.
2. McGovern, “The New Wizard.”
3.Century magazine, “Tesla’s Oscillator and Other Inventions, p. 922, April 1895. See also Electrical Review, Volume 34, No. 13 (March 29, 1899).
4. New York Times, January 6, 1898, p. 5, col. 5.
5.Electrical Review, New York, January 5, 1898.
6. W. A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961).
7. Ibid.
8. Philadelphia Press, May 1, 1898.
9. Ibid.
10. Cdr. E. J. Quinby, USN Ret., “Communications: Encoded, Decoded, Codeless,” Dots and Dashes, Vol. 5, No. 1, Lincoln, Neb., January, February, March 1976.
11. Swezey, “Nikola Tesla,” pp. 1155–56.
12. O’Neill, Genius, 166–74.
13. Microfilm letter, Mark Twain to Tesla, November 17, 1898, Library of Congress.
14. Letter, Tesla to Katharine Johnson, November 3, 1898, Butler Library, Columbia University.
15. N. G. Worth, “An Inquiry About Tesla’s Electrically Controlled Vessel,” Electrical Review, New York, November 30, 1898, p. 343.
16. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, December 1, 1898, Library of Congress.
17. “Science and Sensationalism,” Public Opinion, December 1, 1898, pp. 684, 685.
18. Tesla, “Inventions,” p. 84. See also Electrical Experimenter, January, February, March, April, May 1919.
19. Tesla, “Inventions,” pp. 84, 85.
20. Ibid., p. 85.
21. Ibid., p. 85.
22. Letter, Tesla to B. F. Meissner, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, September 29, 1915.
23. Letter, Leland Anderson to Nick Basura, March 4, 1977.
24. Ibid.
25. New York Times, February 1, 1944, editorial.
26. Letter, Tesla to Leonard Curtis, 1899.
CHAPTER 13. HURLER OF LIGHTNING
1. O’Neill, Genius, pp. 175–76.
2. Letter, Tesla to Katharine Johnson, March 9, 1899, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
3. Letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, March 25, 1899, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
4. Tesla, “Inventions,” pp. 64–67; Electrical Experimenter, June 1919, pp. 112–76.
5. Ibid.
6. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, pp. 127–33, 165, Tesla Museum with Nolit, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1978.
7. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, pp. 167, 168; Leland I. Anderson, “Wardenclyffe—A Forfeited Dream,” Long Island Forum, August, September 1968. See also The Teslian, November 1955, Butler Library, Columbia University.
8. James R. Wait, “Propagation of ELF Electromagnetic Waves and Project Sanguine/Seafarer,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol OE-2, No. 2 (April 1977).
9. Microfilm letter, George Scherff to Tesla, early 1899, Library of Congress.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Scherff, April 13, 1899, Library of Congress.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, August 16, 1899, Library of Congress.
12. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, pp. 127–33.
13. Nikola Tesla, “Transmission of Energy Without Wires,” Scientific American Supplement, June 4, 1904, pp. 23760–1. (Reprint of Electrical World & Engineering, March 5, 1904; description of Colorado Springs experiments.)
14. Ibid. See also O’Neill, Genius, pp. 179–81.
CHAPTER 14. BLACKOUT AT COLORADO SPRINGS
1. Tesla, “Transmission”; O’Neill, Genius, p. 180.
2. Tesla, “Transmission”; Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, p. 62.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes. Microfilm letter, Tesla to George Westinghouse, January 22, 1900, Library of Congress.
6. O’Neill, Genius, 183–87.
7. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, p. 29.
8. Nikola Tesla, Minutes of the Edison Medal Meeting, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 18, 1917, Smithsonian Institution.
9. Ibid.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, August 16, 1899, Library of Congress.
11. Ibid.
12. O’Neill, Genius, p. 189.
13. Nikola Tesla, “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” Century magazine, June 1900, p. 210.
14. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, pp. 368–70.
15. Ibid.
16. Nikola Tesla, “Talking With Planets,” Current Literature, March 1901
, p. 359; also Colorado Springs Gazette, March 9, 1901, p. 4, col. 2.
17. Colorado Springs Gazette, loc. cit.
CHAPTER 15. MAGNIFICENT AND DOOMED
1. Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes, p. 367.
2. Ibid., p. 370.
3. Ibid.
4. Microfilm letter, Tesla to George Westinghouse, January 22, 1900, Library of Congress.
5. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, early 1900, Library of Congress.
6. Microfilm letter, Tesla to J. Pierpont Morgan, November 26, 1900, Library of Congress.
7. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Morgan, December 12, 1900, Library of Congress.
8. Microfilm letter, Morgan to Tesla, February 15, 1901, Library of Congress.
9. Anderson, “Wardenclyffe.”
10. Ibid.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Stanford White, September 13, 1901, Library of Congress.
CHAPTER 16. RIDICULED, CONDEMNED, COMBATTED
1. Seattle Sunday Times, Don Duncan’s “Driftwood Days,” July 1972.
2. Ibid.
3. Philadelphia North American, “Lord Kelvin Believes Mars Now Signalling America”; “Tesla Thinks Wind Power Should be Used More Now”; May 18, 1902, Mag. Sec. V.
4. Ibid.
5. Philadelphia North American, n.d., Julian Hawthorne Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California.
6. Ibid.
7. Letter, Tesla to Hawthorne, n.d., Julian Hawthorne Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California.
8. New York Times, “Court Excuses Tesla,” October 16, 1902.
9. Microfilm letter, Tesla to George Scherff, n.d., Library of Congress.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to J. Pierpont Morgan, April 8, 1903, Library of Congress.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Morgan, July 3, 1903, Library of Congress.
12. Microfilm letter, Morgan to Tesla, July 14, 1903, Library of Congress.
13. Letter, Richmond Pearson Hobson to Tesla, n.d. (referring to Hobson letter of May 6, 1902), Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
14. Letter, Tesla to George Scherff, July 18, 1905, Butler Library, Columbia University.
15. Conversation, L. Anderson and Dorothy F. Skerritt, March 24, 1955.
16. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
17. Letter, Robert U. Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
18. Letter, R. P. Hobson to Tesla, May 1, 1905, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
19. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Tesla Museum.
20. Letter, Tesla to Katharine Johnson, n.d., Tesla Museum.
21. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Tesla Museum.
22. Letter, Tesla to George Scherff, October 26, 1905, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
23. Swezey, “Nikola Tesla.”
24. Letter, Tesla to George Westinghouse, January 11, 1906, Special Collections, Butler Library, Columbia University.
25. Anderson, “Wardenclyffe.”
26. Brooklyn Eagle, March 26, 1916.
27. Anderson, “Wardenclyffe.”
28.Electrical Experimenter, “U.S. Blows Up Tesla Radio Tower,” September 1917, p. 293; Literary Digest, “Spies & Wireless,” September 1, 1917, p. 24.
29. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Scherff, July 13, 1913, Library of Congress.
30. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Morgan, July 13, 1913, Library of Congress.
CHAPTER 17. THE GREAT RADIO CONTROVERSY
1. Charles Süsskind, Dictionary of American Biography, Supp. 3 (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941–45), pp. 767–70.
2. Wait, “Propagation of ELF Electromagnetic Waves.”
3. Anderson, “Priority.”
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Gen. T. O. Mauborgne, “Tesla the Wizard,” Radio-Electronics, February 1943.
7. Brooklyn Standard Union, May 12, 1910.
8. Cdr. E. J. Quinby, letter to author, November 19, 1977. See also Quinby, “Nikola Tesla,” Proceedings, Radio Club of America, Fall 1971.
9. Los Angeles Examiner, May 13, 1915, “Prof. Pupin Now Claims Wireless His Invention.”
10. Ibid.
11. Letter, Armstrong to Anderson, November 16, 1953, Butler Library, Columbia University. See also Edwin Armstrong, “Progress of Science,” Scientific Monthly, April 1943, pp. 378–81.
12. Letter, Anderson to author, November 5, 1977.
13. Haraden Pratt, “Nikola Tesla, 1856–1943,” Proceedings of the IRE, September 1956.
14. Dragislav L. Petković, “A Visit to Nikola Tesla,” Politika, Belgrade, April 27, 1927, No. 6824.
CHAPTER 18. MIDSTREAM PERILS
1. Joseph S. Ames, “Latest Triumph of Electrical Invention,” Review of Reviews, June 1901.
2. F. P. Stockbridge, “The Tesla Turbine,” The World’s Work, March 1912, pp. 534–48. See also Nikola Tesla, “Tesla’s New Method of and Apparatus for Fluid Propulsion,” Electrical Review & Western Electrician, September 9, 1911, pp. 515–17; New York Times,“Tesla’s New Engine,” September 13, 1911. U.S. Patent Office: Patent 1,061,142, Fluid Propulsion, May 6, 1913; 1,061,206, Turbine, May 6, 1913; 1,329,559, Valvular Conduit, February 3, 1920.
3. Stockbridge, “Turbine.”
CHAPTER 19. THE NOBEL AFFAIR
1. Microfilm letter, J. P. Morgan Company to Tesla, May 25, 1913, Library of Congress.
2. Microfilm letter, Tesla to J. P. Morgan, May 19, 1913, Library of Congress.
3. Microfilm letter, Tesla to J. P. Morgan, June 19, 1913, Library of Congress.
4. Microfilm letter, Robert U. Johnson to Tesla, April 22, 1913, Library of Congress.
5. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, May 9, 1913, Library of Congress.
6. Cleveland Moffett, “Steered by Wireless,” Tesla-Hammond correspondence, 1910–1914, L. Anderson collection; McClure’s Magazine, March 1914.
7. “The Goldschmidt Radio Tower,” Electrical Experimenter, February 1914, p. 154. Same issue: H. Winfield Secor, “Currents of Ultra-High Frequency,” pp. 151–54.
8. New York Times, “Edison and Tesla to Get Nobel Prizes,” November 6, 1915, p. 1, col. 4. New York Times, November 7, 1915, II, p. 17, col. 3.
9. Ibid. New York Times, November 7, 1915.
10. New York Times, November 14, 1915.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, November 29, 1919, Library of Congress.
12.Literary Digest, “Three Nobel Prizes for Americans,” December 1915, p. 1426.
13. “The Nobel Prize,” Electrical World, November 13, 1915.
14. O’Neill, Genius, p. 229.
15. Hunt and Draper, Lightning, p. 170.
CHAPTER 20. FLYING STOVE
1. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Westinghouse Company, July 7, 1912, Library of Congress.
2.“Teslin ‘Ventilni Vod’ I Fluidika,” Prof. Tugomir šurina, Symposium Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, 1976.
3. Warren Rice, “An Analytical & Experimental Investigation of Multiple Disc Pumps & Turbines,” Journal of Engineering for Power. Trans. ASME Vol. 85, Series A, No. 3 (July 1963), Paper No. 62-WA-191, pp. 191–98; also Vol. 87, Series A, No. 1 (January 1965), Paper No. 63-WA-67, pp. 29–36. See also ASME Transactions of 1970s.
4. SunWind Ltd., Newsletter No. 10, March 12, 1979, Sebastopol, Calif. 95472.
5. Tesla letter to New York Times, September 15, 1908. See also New York Herald Tribune, July 12, 1927, “Tesla Predicts Fuelless Plane.”
6. Tesla, New York Times, September 15, 1908.
7. New York Times, “Tesla Gets Patent on Helicopter-Plane,” February 22, 1928, p. 18, col. 4. Science & Invention, June 1928, p. 116.
8.Review, The Yugoslav Monthly Magazine, July–August 1964, “Helicopter in Hansom Cab Days,” pp. 31–33.
9. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Scherff, July 1, 1909, Library of Congress.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Sche
rff, n.d., Library of Congress.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Scherff, October 15, 1918, and Scherff to Tesla, October 1918, Library of Congress.
12. Letter, Tesla to Anne Morgan, March 31, 1913, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
13. Letter, Anne Morgan to Tesla, May 3, 1913, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
14. Letter, Tesla to Anne Morgan, May 7, 1913, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
15. Letter, Anne Morgan to Tesla, April 26, 1926, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
16. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
CHAPTER 21. RADAR
1. New York Times, March 18, 1916, p. 8, col. 3.
2. Speech by Millikan at Chemists’ Club, New York, October 7, 1928.
3. The Royal Bank of Canada, Monthly Letter, Vol. 59, No. 11 (November 1978).
4. New York Times, December 8, 1915, p. 8, col. 3, See New York Herald, April 15, 1917.
5. Dr. Emil Girardeau, “Nikola Tesla, Radar Pioneer,” translation from the French, presented at Nikola Tesla—Kongress, Vienna, September 1953.
6. Ibid. See also, Nikola Tesla, “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” Century magazine, June 1900, pp. 208–09; New York Times, “America’s Invisible Airplane,” September 7, 1980, p. 20 E.
CHAPTER 22. THE GUEST OF HONOR
1. O’Neill, Genius, p. 230.
2. Ibid., p. 231.
3.Minutes, Edison Medal Meeting, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 18, 1917, Smithsonian Institution.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Petković, “A Visit to Nikola Tesla.”
8. Letter, Tesla to Scherff, March 3, 1918, Butler Library, Columbia University.
9. Letter, Scherff to Tesla, June 23, 1916, Butler Library, Columbia University.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Scherff, October 15, 1918, Library of Congress.
11. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Robert U. Johnson, December 27, 1914, Library of Congress.