by Marc Seifer
In 1987, I began to work full-time on a full-blown biography. Many entirely new avenues were revealed not covered in the doctoral dissertation. A number of key individuals, particularly Tesla experts, helped me enormously. From the start, Mike Markovitch of Long Island University provided me with important source material and translations; William Terbo, Tesla’s grandnephew, spent endless hours over many years with me discussing various details. In Belgrade, Alexander Marincic, director of the Tesla Museum and, in particular, his assistant, Branimir (Branko) Jovanovic, aided me in vital ways. And in the United States, I must also thank heartily Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Jim and Ken Corum, and the patriarch of Tesla experts, Leland Anderson, whose cache of material, which, like the documents provided by the Tesla Museum, was indispensable in creating this treatise.
Other experts who helped include John Ratzlaff, of the original Tesla Book Company, John Pettibone of Hammond Castle, Paul Baker, Nick Basura, Tom Bearden, Ralph Bergstresser, Zoran Bobic, Nancy Czito, Steve Elswick, Uri Geller, Elmer Gertz, Robert Golka, Toby Grotz, James Hardetsky, Mrs. R. U. Johnson, Jr., John Karanfilovsky, Nicholas Kosanovich, John Langdon, J. W. McGinnis, Sanford Neuschatz, Nicholas Pribic, Dr. Andrija Puharich, Sid Romero, Lynn Sevigny, Richard Vangermeersch, J. T. Walsh, Tad Wise, and Japanese inventor extraordinaire Dr. Yoshiro NakaMats. Through their works, Hugo Gernsback, Kenneth Swezey, Inez Hunt and Wanetta Draper, Herbert Satterlee, and particularly Matthew Josephson and John O’Neill.
Important institutions included the Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Brown, and Yale University libraries, archives from the University of Prague, Columbia University Butler and Avery libraries, the New York Public Library and New York Historical Society, the Edison Menlo Park Archives, the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, Hammond Castle, the Westinghouse Corporation Archives, Hugo Gernsback Publications, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the FBI, the OAP and the instrument known as the Freedom of Information Act.
I would also like to thank my close friend Elliott Shriftman for his wisdom, great generosity, and continuing encouragement; the late Prof. Edwin Gora for his understanding of Tesla’s link to theoretical physics, Roger Pearson, former dean of Providence College School of Continuing Education; and Raymond LaVertue, of Bristol Community College, for helping me put bread on my table; my sagacious agent John White, who has been with the project for over ten years; Allan Wilson (for believing in me) and Donald Davidson of Carol Publishing Group; and my loyal and altruistic partner in the screenplay Tesla: The Lost Wizard, Tim Eaton, visual effects editor for Industrial Light & Magic of Marin County.
The treatise is dedicated to my parents, Thelma and Stanley Seifer, my sister Meri Shardin, her husband, John Keithley and their children, Devin and Dara; my brother, Bruce Seifer, and his wife, Julie Davis; and my wonderful and understanding spouse, Lois Mary Pazienza, who has been with me throughout the entire twenty-year project.
This book is also dedicated to the Teslarians, who seek the truth from the past and a sane, ecologically minded technology for the future.
INDEX
Abafi, 11
AC polyphase system, 42-43, 62, 110-11, 119, 133, 145, 149, 178, 198, 201, 215, 328, 350, 393, 430, 437; builds first model, 21-26, 29-30; explained 16, 22-23, 47-48
Adamic, Louis, 444-45
Adams, Edward Dean, 76, 133-37, 151, 159, 162, 171-72, 190, 210, 230, 245, 254, 385
Adamick, Jimmy, 414
Akâsa (Akâsha), 164-65, 169, 239, 424
Albert, Prince, 93, 326
Alexander I, 95
Alexanderson, Ernest, 390, 471
Algemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG), see Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot; Dolivo-Dobrowolski, Michael von
Alley, Dickenson, 294
Allis Chalmers Company, 398, 401
alternating current (AC), 16, 36, 133. See also AC polyphase system
American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), 44-45, 68-69
Amtorg Trading Company, 455
Anderson, Leland, xiv, 398, 402, 471
Anthony, William, 44, 48, 71
Apple Computer Company, 465
Arago, François, 24
Arbus, Muriel, 429
Armstrong, Edwin, 348, 373-74, 390-91, 429, 444-45, 463-64
artificial intelligence, see telautomaton
Ashara, Shoko, 469
Astor, Ava Willing, 208-9, 245, 295
Astor, John Jacob, xii, xv, 53, 64, 152, 174, 178-79, 190, 205, 208-11, 231, 241, 243-44, 253-54, 295; contract with Tesla, 162-63, 209-11, 218, 361; correspondence with Tesla, 165, 243; science fiction author, 152-54; Spanish-American War, 194-95; aircraft, 329-30, 336, 342-43; lost at sea, 342; death, 358, 361, 366
Atlantic Communication Company, see Telefunken)
atom (structure of), 527n. 14. See also Bohr, Rutherford, Tesla theories; quantum physics
atom bomb, 529n. 18
AUM Supreme Truth, 469
avatar, xiii, xv, 466-70
Ayer, James I., 110-11
Baily, Walter, 25; discovers rotating magnetic field, 24
Bain, Alexander, 184
Bannister, Samuel, 148
Barber, Charles, 171
Barnes, John S., 311-12
Barney, Charles, 163, 326-27
Bartanian, A., 455
Baruch, Bernard, 300-301, 326
Batchelor, Charles, 27-28, 30, 34, 108
battle of currents, 47, 55-57, 132, 135
Beam, Victor, 430
Bearden, Col. Tom, 461, 469
Becker, Robert O., 93
Beckhard, Arthur, 488n. 28
Behrend, Bernard A., 421; defends Tesla, 80-81, 238; role in Edison Medal, 384-85
Bell, Alexander Graham, 66, 84, 119, 149, 277, 328, 345, 346, 384, 410
Belmont, August, 246, 250
Berg, Ernst Julius, 79
Bergmann, Sigmund, 364-66
Bergstressor, Ralph, 460-61
Bernarto Bros., 344
Bernhardt, Sarah, 138, 164-65, 207, 440
Bjerknes, Wilhelm, 62
bladeless turbines, 336-41, 343, 351-53; explained, 339-40; problems, 366, 397, 401-3; used to generate electricity, 419; bladeless pumps, 338
Blanc, Elsie, 410
Blavatsky, Madame, 63
Blondel, André, 93, 391
Bohr, Niels, 103, 464
Boldt, George C., 204-5, 260, 293, 319, 325, 327, 381, 386, 388, 392, 405
Boldt, George, Jr., 392
Bonjean, M., 359
Bowie, David, 468
Bradley, Charles, 25, 74
Bragg, William H., 377, 421
Branly, Edouard, 109, 379
Braun, Karl, 373, 391
Breece, Jimmy, 160
Brentano, Franz, 18
Brisbane, Arthur, 141-43, 148
Broughton, H. R., 111
Brown, Alfred S., 42, 52, 67, 137, 230
Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot, 78, 134-35; Lauffen-Frankfurt transmission, 63, 73-74; defends Tesla, 80
Brown, H. P., 55-57
Bruckner, Joseph 330
Budd Manufacturing Company, 399
Budisovljevic, Soka, 6
Budisovljevic, Toma, 6
Buitrago, Diaz, 143
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George, 63, 65, 193-94, 202
Byllesby, Henry, 46, 49, 134
Cameron, William E., 117-18
cancer, treatment with ozone, 341
Carson, John, mistaken for Tesla in Steinmetz/Einstein photo, 525-26n. 16
Carnegie, Andrew, 250, 383, 410
Caruso, Enrico, 338
Carter, Jimmy, 462
Chamber, William Astor, 161
Chanute, Oliver, 332
Cheiro (Count Louis Hamon), 64
Cheney, M., xiv, 488n. 28
Churchill, Winston, 447
Clark, George, 318, 448
Clemens, Samuel, see Mark Twain
Cockrane, W. Bourke, 57
Coffin, Charles, 77, 135
Colora
do Springs (Colo.) laboratory, 213-36, 379; original transatlantic plan, 216; observation of lightning, 219; discovery of stationary waves, 219; measuring geomagnetic pulse, 220-221; extraterrestrial encounter, 221-25
Cooper, Drury W., 371
Corbett, Gentleman Jim, 245, 414
Corbett, John, 453
Cornels, Fredrich, 448-49
Conroy, Charles, 458-59
Cowles, Alfred, 311
Craigee, Gen. L. C., 459
Crawford, Marion, 139
Crookes, William, 32, 71, 85, 89, 90-92, 94, 97, 108, 209, 231, 250
Crow, W. D., 262
Cults of Unreason, 469
Curtis, H. L., 417
Curtis, Leonard E., 45, 214
Czito, Colman, 231-34, 382, 422
Czito, Julius, 231, 382, 422, 456
Czito, Nancy, 456
Dahlstrand, Hans, 398, 401
Dana, Charles, 141, 146
death ray, see
particle beam weapons
deBobula, Titus, 427, 431-34, 457
DeForest, Lee, 357, 377, 389-91, 409, 421; and advances in wireless, 279-80, 338, 352; diary, 275; litigation with Armstrong, 374, 390, 429; meeting with Tesla, 182-83
Dempsey, Jack, 410, 414
DePew, Chauncey, 194, 245
Deprez, Marcel, 24, 93
Descartes, René, 15, 19, 200
Dewar, James, 88-90, 231
Dickson, W. L., 37
direct current (DC), 16, 36, 47-48, 132
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 231, 289
Dolivo-Dobrowolski, Michael von, 63, 76, 78, 241; Lauffen-Frankfurt transmission, 73; claim of priority in AC system, 80-81
Donegan, T. J., 450
Doty, Col. Ralph E., 446, 458
Dozier, Joseph, 215
Draper, Wanetta, see Hunt and Draper
Duffner, C. J., 236
DuMaurier, George, 154
Duncan, Louis, 69
Dunn, Gano, 71, 421, 444
Dvořák, Anton 124, 145, 208
earth currents, 88, 105, 107-8, 185-86, 283-84, 372-73, 472
Edison, Thomas Alva, xiv, 17, 21, 27-39, 45, 47, 55-57, 62, 64, 66, 70, 76, 84, 108, 118, 122, 133, 135, 148-49, 154, 162, 170, 174-75, 183, 194, 200, 207, 241, 246, 280, 328, 384-85, 400, 420, 428-29; conflicts with other inventors, 39, 77-78, 178; first meets Tesla, 27, 30-31; Pearl Street, 36-46; Nobel Prize nomination, 379-80; on Tesla, 27, 113-14, 266, 295-96, 360, 386; death, 421
Edison, Thomas, Jr., 194-95
Edison Electric Companies, 28, 38, 40, 77, 365
Ehrenhaft, F., 379
Eiffel, Alexander, 61-62
Eiffel Tower, 118, 267, 338
Einstein, Albert, 102-3, 197, 379, 412, 416, 418, 420-21, 440, 498n. 60, 525-26n. 16
Electrical Experimenter, 34, 383, 395, 399, 405
Electrical Review, 214
Electrical World, 44, 70
electromagnetism, 62, 75, 95-96, and light, 70. See also Hertz, Hertzian waves
electrocution, 56-58
entrainment of brain waves, 461, 530nn. 43, 44
ether, 20, 62, 71, 101-5, 108, 110, 168-69, 239, 420-21, 499n. 25
Evans, Christopher, 469
Evershed, Thomas, 132
Faraday, Michael, 59, 119, 464
Farmer, Moses, 31
Farnsworth, Philo, 464
FBI, 411, 434, 446-62, 468
Fechner, Gustav-Theodor, 15
Fenton, Irene, 355
Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de, 62, 133
Ferraris, Galileo, 24-25, 50, 93, 120, 328, 384
Fessenden, Reginald, 241-42, 280-82, 358, 377, 389-91
fireballs, 232, 510n. 16
Fitzgerald, Bloyce, 449-50, 458-61
Flammarion, Camille, 154-56
Fleming, John Ambrose, 85-86, 90, 275
Flint, Charles R., 260
Flowers, John B., 417-18
flying machines, 17; flivver plane, 235, 334-35, 418; fuel-less plane, 324, 333-34; hovercraft (hydrofoil), 332-33, 342; reactive jet dirigible, 330-31
Forbes, George, defends Tesla AC motor, 111, 135
Ford, Henry, 382, 434
Foxworth, D. E., 450
Frank, Carl George, 361, 370, 374, 388
Franklin, Benjamin, 119
free energy, 65, 71, 166, 420-25, 516n. 31
Freibott, G., 341
frequency controversies: polyphase system, 55, 59, 60, 73-74; wireless, continuous vs. pulsed, 185, 187, 218, 229, 280, 351, 374
Freud, Sigmund, 438, 464
Frick, Henry Clay, 246, 250, 320, 323, 326, 410
Galt, John, 468
Ganz & Co.. 133, 135
Gates, Bill, 465
Gates, John W., 250
Gaulard, Lucian, see Gaulard-Gibbs
Gaulard-Gibbs AC transformer, 24, 37, 46, 55, 58, 101, 133
Geissler, Heinrich, 71
General Electric, 77-79, 118, 135-37, 148-50, 178, 394, 401, 402, 411, 444
General Motors, 418
Gernsback, Hugo, 34, 395-96, 399, 405, 426-30, 435
Gershwin, George, 355
Gertz, Elmer, 436, 440
Gibbs, George, see Gaulard-Gibbs
Gilder, Richard Watson, 36, 179, 236, 239-40, 336-37, 438
Girardeau, M. E., 359
Goddard, Robert, 404
Goldschmidt, Rudolf, 375
Golka, Robert, 471
Gora, Edwin, 102
Gorsuch, Walter, 451-53
graphology, xv, 319, 321-23
Gray, Elisha, 120-21, 183, 248
Griggs, John, 390
Grindell-Mathews, Harry, 426-27
Guggenheim, family, 299-301, 325-26, 345, 366
Gurdjieff, George, 202
Gurth, Max, 402
Guzman Prize, 422
Hammond, John Hayes, Sr., x, xv, 178, 180, 300-301, 325, 343-46, 348, 353-56
Hammond, John Hayes, Jr. (Jack), xv, 343-56, 362, 370, 372, 377, 389, 409-10, 421, 429; radio guidance system, 344-48, 353-55; contract with Tesla, 345-53, 355, 364; meets Edison, 345-46; work with Bell, 346-47; marriage, 355; inventions, 346; Navy and War departments, 347-49, 353-55; death, 356
Hamon, Count Louis, see Cheiro
Harriman, Ned, 250, 264-65, 268, 295-96
Haselwander, Fredrich August, 25
Hausler, Charles, 450, 456
Havemeyer, H. O., 231
Hawthorne, Julian, 241; Tesla/Martian signals, 224-25, 257-58
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 225, 258
Hearst, William Randolph, 141, 355
Heaviside, Oliver, 81, 85
Hedetneimi, Charles, 453-56
Heinreich, Earnest, 190, 256-57
Heinze, Augustus, 326-27
Heisenberg, Werner, 102, 529n. 18
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig von, 19, 61, 68, 95, 119-20
Henry, Joseph, 108, 119, 278
Hering, Carl, 241, 277; opposition to Tesla, 72, 74-75, 80-81
Hertz, Heinrich, 61-62, 70, 104, 109-10, 172, 184, 218, 249, 278, 372, 498n. 60; death, 126; EM theories, 96-97; meets Tesla, 95-97. See also Hertzian waves
Hertzian waves, 99, 107, 109, 344, 351, 357, 418. See also Bjerknes, Wilhelm; Hertz, Heinrich; Mach, Ernst; Stone, John Stone
Hess, Victor, 423
Hewitt, Peter Cooper, 160
Hiergesell, David, 84
Higginson, Adm. Francis J., 206, 226-28, 238, 389-90
Hitler, Adolf, 436-39, 442, 447-48
Hoadley, Joseph, 341
Hobart, Ganet, 194
Holland, John P., 205-6, 237
Hobson, Grizelda, 319, 414, 437-38
Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 206, 212-13, 258, 319-20, 414-15, 437-38
Holliday, Col., 459
Holt, Frank, see Erich Muenter
Hoover, J. Edgar, 433-34, 448, 455, 458-59, 468
Hosier, H. M., 187
Houle, P. E., 459
House, William, 377
Houston, Edwin, 101
Huart, M., 196-97
Hume, David, 19
Hunt and Draper, xiv, 378, 380
Hutchins, Frank, 386, 405-8
Hyde, Henry, 298
International Tesla Society, xvi, 464, 471
Inventions (Tesla): amplifier 21; antigermicide, 158; arc lamp, 40; artificial intelligence, 202-3, 317; automaton, see telautomaton; button lamp, 87, 425; clock, 121; crow catcher, 8; death ray, see particle beam weapons; DC motors, 37; electric bath, 158; electric railroad, 150; electronic radio tubes, 231, 280; electrotherapeutic machines, 128, 139, 158, 382; to enhance intelligence, 357-58; fertilizer machine, 186-87, 211, 329-35; fluorescent and neon lights, 71, 85, 111, 114, 119, 137, 209-11, 218, 253, 290, 319, 328, 336; free energy machine, 423-24; fuel-less automobile, 419; induction motor, 23-34, 37, 59-60, 77-78, 121, 238; interplanetary communicator, 416; laser beams (precursor work in), 87-88, 422, 425, 456; ozone machines, 83, 187, 341-342; pump, 338; purifying ore, 419; radio tube, 188, 374; radar, 407; refrigeration devices, 311-12; rotating magnetic field, 22-26, 30, 42, 49, 121; scrambler, 193, 218, 348; speedometer, 381, 399; telegeodynamics, 191-92, 416, 461, 469; Tesla coil, 73; torpedo, 338; turbines (other than bladeless), 13; valvular conduit, 398; weather control, 263; X rays, 167-70, 173, 388, 425. See also AC polyphase system, bladeless turbines, flying machines, magnifying transmitter, particle beam weapons, telautomaton, wireless transmission
ionosphere, 508n. 13; Heaviside-Kennelly layer, 105
Jobs, Steven, 465
Johnson, Agnes (Holden), 163, 259, 287, 413, 438
Johnson, Katharine, xv, 123-31, 159, 198, 258, 284, 321, 324, 327, 364, 385, 409; illness, 401, 408; death, 410, 414; letters with Tesla, 164, 173, 180, 206-7, 211-12, 234-35, 243, 259, 272, 287-88, 303, 472-73; romantic connection, 123, 163, 415
Johnson, Robert Underwood, xv, 123-31, 145, 159-61, 163, 178, 180, 189, 198, 204, 232, 235, 242, 256, 258, 266-67, 284, 287, 295, 321, 336-37, 362, 364, 366, 379-80, 385, 392, 399-400, 405, 410, 413-14, 437-38; edits Tesla article, 239-40; letters with Tesla, 173-74, 179, 236, 259, 273, 319; meets Edison, 122; “Luka Filipov” (poem), 125; death, 438
