Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (Cosimo Classics Biography)

First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans this is a definitive biography of the man without whom modern civilization would not exist. Nikola Tesla pioneer of electrical engineering was a close friend of Pulitzer Prize-winning author ONeill and here ONeill captures the man as a scientist and as a public figure exploring: . how Teslas father inspired his life in engineering . why Tesla clung to his theories of electricity in the face of opposition . how the shy but newly popular Tesla navigated the social life of New York in the gay 1890s . Teslas friendship with Mark Twain . the story of Teslas lost Nobel Prize . Teslas dabblings in the paranormal . and much more. JOHN JOSEPH ONEILL (b. 1889) also wrote Engineering the New Age and You and the Universe: What Science Reveals.