Tesla: Man Out of Time

Oregon, SS, 51, 53

  Oscillators, 184

  Earth set in resonance by, 187–88, 349–50

  “earthquakes” from, 150–52, 153–54

  stationary waves produced from, 182

  Oxford University, 131

  Paderewski, Ignace, 114, 143

  Palmer, Edward, 335

  Palmer, Mrs. Potter, 101

  Panics

  1884, 49, 58

  1893, 99

  1903, 208

  Paris, 259

  Edison’s telephone subsidiary in, 46

  expositions in

  1891, 64

  1900, 173, 186, 193, 200

  Tesla’s lectures in, 85n, 90, 91

  Parson’s turbine, 241

  Particle beam, see Death ray Paul, Prince (Regent), 312, 315, 316

  Pavlov, Ivan P., 301

  Pearson’s Magazine, 21, 155

  Penzias, Arno, 346

  Perth Amboy (N.J.), 305

  Peter I (King of Yugoslavia), 242

  Peter II (King of Yugoslavia), 303, 312, 315–17, 320–21, 325

  Petkovic, Dragislav L., 229–30, 271

  Philadelphia (Pa.), 94, 95

  Philadelphia North American, 192

  Philadelphia Press, 159

  Phillips, Albert J., 305–06

  Photographic film, projecting mental images onto, 31–32, 155

  Photography

  Kirlian, 125–26

  phosphorescent, 156

  vacuum-tube, 156, 195

  Pierre Guzman Prize, 310, 312, 314

  Pigeons, Tesla’s love for, 20, 234, 268–69, 278–85, 308, 323

  Pittsburgh (Pa.), 64, 74, 157

  Pittsburgh Dispatch, 195

  Pittsburgh Reduction Company, 120

  Planck, Max, 136

  Plasma physics, 77, 189–90, 344, 345, 345n, 353

  Poeschl (professor), 40, 44

  “Pogo” aircraft, 252

  Point electron microscope, 77, 83

  Polyphase-induction motors, 45

  Polyphase-synchronous motors, 45

  Pond, H. Otis, 203

  Popov, Aleksandr S., 221

  Poverty Social, 114

  Power transmission lines, buried, insulation of, 192–93

  Prague, Tesla’s studies in, 40

  Pratt, Haraden, 221, 228–29

  Preece, Sir William H., 122, 131, 186

  President Washington, SS, 226

  Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 221

  Prohibition, 214, 275

  “Project Nick,” 352

  Project Sanguine/Seafarer, 350

  Public Opinion (periodical), 166

  Pupin, Michael, 52, 65, 69, 75, 97, 104, 113, 146, 198, 221, 261

  Tesla on, 229–30, 242

  on Tesla’s discovery of radio, 225, 227

  X-ray research of, 132–35

  Puskas brothers, 46

  Pyle National Company, 248

  Pyrosphere, 346

  Quantum theory, 136

  Quarks, 312

  Quinby, E. J., 161, 225–26

  Radar, Tesla’s ideas for, 259–60, 265–66

  Radio (wireless), 89, 92, 131, 272

  first transatlantic, 226–27

  Tesla’s work in, 96–98, 171–74, 221–30, 276, 294–95

  basic patents, 144

  Colorado Springs experiments, 173, 177, 187, 192

  Marconi’s use of Tesla’s patent, 201, 221–28

  remote control, 145, 160–62, 166–70, 203, 208, 217, 227, 240, 264

  Tesla coil, 87

  world-broadcasting tower, 124, 192, 199–203, 206, 207, 209, 210, 217–20

  in thermonuclear war, 350

  Radio-Electronics (periodical), 224

  Radio vacuum tube, 77, 122

  Radio waves, 136

  Radiometer, Crookes, 126

  Raditsa, Bogdan, 315, 317–22

  Radium, 82

  production of cheap, 310, 313

  Rado, Dr. (Paul Radosavljević), 242, 243, 314, 325, 326

  Rahway (N.J.), 59

  Randall, Jemima, 200

  Rayleigh, Lord, 91, 128, 166

  Raytheon Company, 347

  Refrigeration, 254

  Remington, Frederick, 157

  Remote control, 145, 160–62, 166–70, 203, 208–09, 217, 227, 240, 264

  Rentschler, Harvey, 326

  Resonance

  acoustical, 146

  electrical, 148, 149

  magnifying transmitter, 174–88, 194, 215–16, 344–45, 353

  mechanical, 150–54

  principle of, 83

  Rice, W. W., Jr., 270

  Rice, Warren, 248, 298

  Robots (automation), 36, 111–12, 166–69

  See also Remote control Rockefeller, John D., 105, 250

  Roentgen, Wilhelm, 132–33, 134, 143, 166, 294

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 320, 325–26

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 303–04, 320, 321, 325, 326

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 160, 250

  Royal Society of Great Britain, 85n, 91

  RPVs, see Remote control Ruhmkorff coil, 215

  Russia, see Soviet Union Rutherford, Lord, 262

  Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 105, 193, 197, 209

  St. Louis (Mo.), 96–97

  Satellites, electrical supply by, 347–48

  Schenectady (N.Y.), 54

  Scherff, George, 110, 138–39, 164, 171–73, 178, 184, 193, 196, 231, 239, 253–54, 258, 272–73, 282, 324

  at Wardenclyff, 202–04, 206, 209–10, 212–17

  Schmid, Albert, 131

  Schumann, W. O., 350

  Science News, 312

  Scott, Charles F., 131–32

  Seawater power plant, 297–98

  Secret weapons, 313, 332, 337–39, 352–54

  See also Death rays

  Seeley (chief examiner of patents), 168

  Serbia, 127, 242–43

  Shaulis, Lloyd L., 339

  Shockley, William B., 169

  Sigsbee, Charles, 251

  Skerritt, Dorothy F., 15, 109, 110, 210, 232, 234, 281

  Slaby, Adolf, 195, 199, 221, 294

  Smiley Steel Company, 218

  Société Française de Physique, 91

  Société Internationale des

  Electricians, 91

  Solar engine, 155–56

  Solar power, 204, 288

  Son of Aba, The (book), 30

  Soviet Union, magnifying transmitter supposed to be used by, 174, 350

  Spanish-American War, 157–64, 179

  Spiritualism, 92–93, 300

  Split-phase induction motors, 45

  SRI International, 344

  Stahl, Maurice, 103, 311n

  Stanley, William, 61

  Stars

  modification of courses of, 351

  radio waves from, 190–92

  Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 52, 54, 66, 75, 226

  Stijaci´c, Peter O., 242, 243

  Stone, J. S., 221, 224

  Storm, Margaret, Tesla biography by, 13–14

  Strassburg (then Germany), 47

  Stubbs, W. R., 255

  šubăsi´c, Ivan, 318, 322

  Submarines, detection of, 260, 262–63

  Sukletovi´c, Dushan, 326

  Sun

  power from, 155–56, 204, 288

  radiation from, 81–83

  SunWind, Ltd., 248–49

  superconductors, 193

  Superheterodyne beat-note circuit, 97

  Swezey, Kenneth M., 14, 110, 115, 161, 168, 216, 221, 232, 77–79, 292–95, 307, 314, 325–27, 331–33, 338

  death of, 331

  Sylvania GTE International, 79

  Szigety, Anital, 43

  Tamm, Edward A., 334

  Taylor, Lauriston S., 136–37

  Teleautomatics, 35, 167

  Teleforce, 313, 352

  Telegeodynamics, 153, 336

  Telegraph, 196

  Telephone exchange in Budapest, 42, 46
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  Television, 87, 244–45, 288

  Telluride (Colo.), 75

  “Terrestrial night light,” 123

  Tesla, Angeline (sister), 25, 94

  Tesla, Dane (Daniel, brother), 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 236, 300

  Tesla, Duka Mandi´c (mother), 25–26, 41, 90–94, 284, 300

  Tesla, Marica (sister), 25

  Tesla, Milka (sister), 25

  Tesla, Milutin (father), 25–27, 30, 36, 38, 41

  Tesla, Nikola

  arrives in America, 49

  on America, 159–60

  American citizenship of, 64, 241, 331, 334

  biographies of, 13–15, 355

  billiards proficiency of, 40, 46

  birth of, 25, 292

  capital punishment opposed by, 206

  childhood and youth of, 25–41, 279–80

  clothes and, 109, 110

  in court for nonpayment of taxes, 258

  death of, 324–27

  descriptions of, 107–12, 232, 294, 305

  Edison and, 53–57, 155, 221, 233, 270, 323

  AC-DC conflict, 46, 53, 56, 65, 67, 75, 100, 104, 139

  rumored Nobel Prize, 243– 246

  education of, 36–41

  employment of consultant, 209, 272, 276–77, 306

  Continental Edison Company, 46–48

  day laborer in New York City, 59–60

  by Edison, 53–57

  Hungarian Central Telegraph Office, 42

  Nikola Tesla Company, 171, 197, 212, 272, 290

  Tesla Electric Company, 61–63, 130

  Tesla Electric Light Company, 59

  by Westinghouse, 63, 276–77, 306

  on future society, 286–88, 300–03

  gambling of, 40–41

  honors to, 64, 109, 120, 128, 312, 327

  Edison Medal, 266, 267–72, 281, 332, 334

  75th-birthday volume, 16–17, 293–95

  Yugoslav honorarium, 308

  illnesses of, 37, 38

  amnesia and exhaustion, 89–91, 300

  nervous breakdown, 42–43

  in old age, 276, 280, 308

  inventions of

  AC induction motor, 40, 44–47, 53, 59–67, 75

  AC timekeeper, 88

  “aeromobile,” 253

  arc light, 59

  artificial lightning, 121, 148, 176

  automobile speedometer, 239, 272

  bladeless turbine, 26, 211, 234–39, 247–49, 253–54

  dirigible torpedo, 241

  early ideas, 36–40

  flivver airplane (flying stove), 247, 251–53

  heat transformed directly into energy, 60

  high-frequency alternators, 87

  his method, 32–33

  hypersensitive vacuum tube, 124–26

  intuition used, 34, 35, 312

  Litz wire, 88

  magnifying transmitter, 174–88, 194, 215–16, 345, 353

  medical diathermy, 88, 102–03, 140, 165, 209, 211, 298

  radio patents, 144

  remote control, 160–62, 166–70, 203, 208, 217, 227, 240

  rotating magnetic field, 44

  some unexplainable today, 22

  telephone amplifier, 46

  Tesla coil, see Tesla coils

  tube lights, 21, 78

  valvular conduit, 248

  Westinghouse’s underwriting, 156–57

  See also Death rays; other specific topics

  on inventors, 45

  laboratories of

  Bridgeport, 273

  Colorado Springs, 14, 33, 170, 171–91, 194, 211, 349

  New York City, see New York City—Tesla’s laboratories in

  Wardenclyffe, 205, 209–17, 348

  laboratory accidents of, 139, 185, 212–13

  lectures by, 44, 62, 76–83, 90, 122, 138, 357–58

  at 1893 World’s Fair, 99, 100–04

  letters to newspapers by, 231, 249–50, 309

  missing papers of, 313–14, 330–41, 377

  Nobel Prize and, 243–46

  as originator of broad concepts, 233

  oscillator experiments of, see Oscillators

  patents of, 161–62, 167–69, 173, 192–93, 208, 210, 220, 248, 248n, 250, 290–99, 348

  AC, 57n, 60, 62, 63, 65–66, 74, 120–21

  German, 130, 241

  awsuits, 66, 74–75, 98, 121, 145, 221–28, 254–55

  personal characteristics of ability to go without sleep, 54

  acute senses, 42

  cruelty, 110, 234

  flashes of lights and images, 31, 34–35

  gives up coffee and tea, 41

  linguistic ability, 34

  mathematical ability, 34, 36

  moderate drinking, 214

  night person, 234

  obsessive behavior and phobias, 19, 29–30, 109, 115, 172, 284–85, 307, 323

  photographic memory, 33

  physical fitness, 292

  pigeon love, 20, 234, 268, 269, 278–85, 308, 323

  talking to himself during lightning storms, 234

  poetry of, 26, 48, 299

  translation of Zmaj, 243

  precognition by, 92–93, 94

  psychological theories of, 35, 94, 112

  religion and, 143, 301

  social life of, 19–20, 112–18

  See also entries under New York City

  universal-energy ideas of, 81, 127, 145–49, 171, 204, 288, 302, 310, 336

  Colorado Springs experiments, 188–89, 192

  modern possibilities, 347–52

  solar engine, 155–56

  Westinghouse and, see

  Westinghouse, George—Tesla and

  women and, 20, 115–18, 139, 141, 279

  Eisenbud on, 284–85

  ideas on eugenics, 300–01

  See also Johnson, Katharine

  works of, 357–58

  autobiography, 28, 92–94, 357

  bibliography, 15, 355–56

  Colorado Springs Notes, 187, 330, 351–52

  world-broadcasting tower of, 124, 200–03, 206, 209, 210, 217–19, 237, 244

  World War II and, 317–22

  X-ray research of, 133–38

  Tesla (international scientific unit), 329

  Tesla Centennial (1956), 15, 329

  Tesla coils, 85, 87, 125, 135, 146, 209, 217, 233, 293, 345n, 346, 351

  Tesla Electric Company, 61–63, 130

  Tesla Electric Light Company, 59

  Tesla Electro Therapeutic Company, 272

  Tesla Nitrates Company, 272

  Tesla Ozone Company, 254

  Tesla Pad, 165

  Tesla Polyphase System, 41, 61

  Tesla Propulsion Company, 254, 272

  Tesla Society, 15, 329

  Tesla turbine, see Turbine—bladeless

  Thaw, Harry K., 216

  Therapeutic currents, see Diathermy

  Thermonuclear war, radio blackout in, 350

  Thomson, Elihu, 44, 52, 61, 122

  Thomson, Joseph J., 86, 122, 136, 221, 224, 270, 294

  Thomson-Houston Company, 61, 68, 70

  Tidal energy system, see Geothermal plant

  Time magazine, 295

  Tirpitz, Alfred von, 239

  Tito (Josip Broz), 317–22

  Tonnelé & Company, 133

  Torpedo boats, see Boats Townsend, Judge, 66

  Transmitters, magnifying, 174–88, 194, 215, 344, 353

  Transmutation of matter, 310

  Transistors, 169

  Trbojevich, Nikola, 40

  Triangle Factory Fire, 256

  Tripp, Guy E., 277

  Trump, John G., 234–39, 352

  Tube lighting, 20–21, 78, 100

  Tuckerton Radio Station, 241–42

  Turbine, bladeless, 26, 211, 234–39, 247–49, 253, 254

  Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 20–24, 37, 105, 127, 134, 162, 214, 234, 323–24

  Uhlman, Mr., 178, 184

  University of Wisconsin, 351

 
Uranium, radiation from, 82

  Uranium glass, 78, 133

  U.S. Circuit Court, 66, 195

  U.S. Electric Company, 72

  U.S. Supreme Court, 98, 121, 221, 327

  Vacuum diode, 248

  Vacuum tubes, 79, 81, 148, 353

  in photography, 156, 195

  radio, 77, 122

  Tesla’s hypersensitive, 124–26

  X rays and, 133–36

  Van Allen belts, 82, 351

  Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius, 52

  Vanderbilt, William K., 105

  Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K., 52

  Venus, 190

  Tesla as being from, 13–14, 112, 205

  Veragua, Duke and Duchess of, 100

  Vibrations, 23–24, 152

  See also Oscillators

  Viereck, George Sylvester, 299–300, 301

  Voltaire, 39

  VTOL aircraft, 251–53

  Wait, James R., 177, 221–22, 349

  Walker, James J., 275

  Wall, T. F., 290

  Wallace, Henry A., 319, 326, 332

  Walter, Helen, Tesla biography by, 13

  Waltham Watch Company, 272

  War, Tesla’s devices to end, 302

  Warden, F. P., & Company, 197

  Warden, James D., 199

  Wardenclyffe, 200–220, 237, 244, 258, 348

  Warwick, Countess of, 212

  Watson, John B., 301

  Watson-Watt, Robert A., 260n, 265

  Wave guide, 123

  earth-ionosphere, 177, 349–50

  Weather modification, 174, 188, 350

  Wembly, H. W., 324

  Wendover (Utah), 175, 344

  West Orange, (N.J.), 67

  Western Union Telegraph Company, 50, 37

  Westinghouse, George, 45, 61, 62–64, 68, 78, 314

  challenged by Edison, 65–70

  Morgan’s attempt to defeat, 70– 74

  Tesla and, 66, 67, 98–99, 103, 130, 131, 144, 153, 157, 193, 216, 231

  Niagara contract, 118–20

  royalty contract, 63, 72–74, 212, 279n, 306

  telegraphic communication, 196–97

  Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., 218

  Westinghouse Electric and

  Manufacturing Company, 72, 247–48, 258, 276, 305, 308, 336

  White, Stanford, 196, 200, 216–17

  White House, electricity in, 99

  Wilhelm, Walter, 15

  Wilson, Robert W., 346

  Wilson, Woodrow, 226, 263

  Wind power, 204

  Wireless, see Radio

  Women’s liberation

  electric kitchen and, 101

  Tesla on, 286–88

  World War I, 218, 226, 238, 240–42, 258–65

  World War II, 299, 314–23

  radar in, 260, 265–66

  Worth, N. G., 166

  Wright, Orville, 249–50

  Wright Field, 339, 340–41

  X rays, 77, 82, 102, 129, 132–38, 209

  Yaklovlev Yak-36, 252

  Yale University, 109

  Young, Leo, 265

  Yugoslavia, 242–43, 303, 312, 329

  Tesla in, 25–41, 64, 92–94, 279

  Tesla Museum and Institute in, 13, 253, 278, 295, 308, 316, 319, 330, 332, 342