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WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF NIKOLA TESLA has been called the definitive biography on the inventor's fantastic life. The story begins with Tesla's heritage, follows childhood and early life through his school years in Graz and Budapest to his first jobs in Europe and then to his acclaimed work in America. ![]() The story covers Tesla's invention of the AC POLYPHASE SYSTEM in 1883, his controversial liaison with Thomas Edison in 1884 and his complex business arrangement with George Westinghouse starting in 1889. The text covers the famous "battle of the currents" between Edison and Westinghouse, Tesla's great lectures in Europe and the United States, his early WIRELESS experiments with HIGH FREQUENCY APPARATUS the harnessing of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and Tesla's meetings with such notables as Heinreich Hertz, Lord Raleigh, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge and Lord Kelvin in Europe, and in America, Katharine and Robert Underwood Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, Spanish-American war hero Richmond Pearson Hobson, conservationist John Muir, architect Stanford White and Mark Twain. PAGE 1 |