by Marc Seifer
Johnson, Owen, 163, 208, 259, 266, 342
Johnson, Walter, 237
Johnston, W. J., 44, 81
Jones, Homer, 453
Josika, see Abafi
Jung, Carl, 154-55
Jurow, Irving, 450-52
Kaempffert, Waldemar, 352, 377
Kapp, Gisbert, 80-81, 134
Karadjich, Vuk, 4, 6
Kara-George (George Petrovich), 3
Keegen, Gen. George, 462
Keely, John Ernst Worell, 61, 63-65, 162, 165, 198, 425
Keene, James, 251
Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson), 68, 85, 89-90, 102, 134-35, 156, 231, 250, 278, 407
Kemmler, William, 56-58
Kennelly, Arthur, 57, 68, 74, 132, 375, 385
Kerr, E. M., 50
Kerr, Page & Cooper. 311-12
Kierkegaard, Søren, 168
King, George, 468
King, Joseph, 452
Kipling, Rudyard, 123, 128, 163, 179-80, 258
Knight, Walter H., 341
Korn, Arthur, 184-85
Kosanovic, Sava, 7, 294, 442-43, 445-48, 450, 452, 457-61
Krsinic, Franco, 464
Krueger, Paul, 345
Kulishich, Kosta, 15, 18
Kussner, Amatia, 208
Küster, Mr., 184
Labine, Jerry, 402
laboratories: Edison Waterside Station, 349, 351, 363-64, 366; 59th Street Bridge, 427, 429, 457; Grand Street, 61, 256, 371-72; Houston Street, 158, 161, 182, 213-15, 217, 281; Liberty Street, 42-43; Orange, New Jersey, 148; South Fifth Avenue, 66, 99, 127-28, 146-47, 281, 443. See also Colorado Springs; Wardenclyffe
Laemmle, Carl, 428
Lamme, Benjamin, 59-60, 65, 78, 100, 377
Langley, Samuel, 309, 332
Langmuir, Irving, 377, 525-26n. 16
Lathrop, George, 154
Lawrence, William, 460
lawsuits: Boldt, 405-8; Fessenden, 280-82; Marconi, 358-59, 366, 369, 370-73, 388, 398; Warden, 324; Westinghouse, 359-60
lectures: AIEE (1888), 45-48; Columbia College (1891), 70-73; Royal Society, London (1892), 83-90; 143; Paris (1892), 84, 92-93; Philadelphia (1893), 101-7; St. Louis (1893), 101, 110-13; Chicago Electrical Congress (1893), 120-21; Niagara Falls (1897), 174-77; New York Academy of Sciences (1897), 188; NELA, New York (1911), 350-51
Lenard, Philip, 175, 231
Leonardo da Vinci, 332
Ley, Willy, 156
Light House Board, 226-28, 379-80, 389-92
Lilienthal, Otto, 332
Lindbergh, Charles, 330
Livor, Harry, 38
Locke, Richard Adams, 19, 155
Lockheed Martin X-33, 333
Lodge, Oliver, 70, 85, 91, 109-10, 187, 337, 373, 377, 390, 421
Long, John D., 389, 391
Loomis, Mahlon, early work in wireless, 107-8
Lowenstein, Fritz, 217-19, 231, 281, 397-98, 347-48, 352, 357-58, 370, 375, 382
Lowell, Perceival, 152-53, 155-56, 216, 327, 465
Lund, Troeln, 378
Lusitania, 340, 375
Lwoff-Parlaghy, Princess Vilna, 382-83, 410
Mach, Ernst, 15, 18, 200; acoustical waves, 19-20; Buddhist influence, 201; Mach’s principle 20, 104-5, 201-2, 425
McKay, Clarence, 209, 211
McKim, Charles, 311, 392
McKim, Mead & White, 98, 159, 261
McKinley, William, 195, 270, 390
McNamara, Charles, 458
magnifying transmitter, 188-89, 216, 227, 281, 327, 347-48, 372-73, 407-8, 417-18, 471-76; radio tube (brush light), 86, 102-5; oscillators, 83-84, 99, 115-17, 137, 143, 165, 183, 209-11, 218, 232, 261, 281, 290, 295, 318, 328, 373, 390, 419. See also Wardenclyffe; tuned circuits
Man, Albion, see Sawyer-Man
Man Who Fell to Earth, 468
Mannheim, Karl, 307
Mandic, Djouka, see Tesla, Djouka
Mandic, Nikola, 7
Mandic, Pajo, 20, 66-67, 128
Mandic, Petar, 7, 66, 93, 294
Marconi, Guglielmo, x, xiv, 109, 172-73, 183, 185-87, 194-96, 368-75, 388, 410, 421, 429; litigation, 227, 249, 284, 288, 309, 358-63, 358; Martian signals, 224, 400-1, 404; meeting with Tesla, 236-37; New York speeches, 275-79, 337; Nobel prize, 374, 379; successful wireless experiments, 189, 223; Hammond connection, 345, 347, 355; in U.S. Court, 371; pirates Tesla oscillator, 262-63, 285, 326-27, 359, 372-73; transatlantic wireless transmission, 274-79; work with Preece, 172-73, 186-87, 275
Marconi Wireless Co., 390-91
Marincic, Alexander, 471, 509n. 20
Markovitch, Michael, 447
Mars, 242, 258, 327, 337, 404, 465; canals of, 153, 155-56; belief in life on, 152-57, 216, 220-26, 318
Martin, Thomas Commerford, xii, xv, 29, 43-45,67-69, 84,97,116, 137,139-41, 147,150, 170, 178, 321,349, 410; editor of Tesla, 79, 110, 138, 190; disagreements, 196, 200, 214, 257, 289, 381; and Marconi extravaganza, 275-78; and Johnsons, 121-22,126, 128
Mashevkief, Ivan, 410-411
Matthews, Arthur, 468
Maxim, Hiram, 31, 76
Maxwell, James Clerk, 68, 96, 119
Meissner, Benjamin Franklin, 348
Merrick, F. A., 435
Merrington, Marguerite, 208, 260, 385
Meyers, Emil, 361, 377
Michaelson-Morley experiment, 102
Mill, John Stewart, 299
Millikan, Robert, 71, 377, 421, 423
Mills, Darius Ogden, 162, 178, 209, 211, 245, 300, 343
Morgan, Anne, 361, 448; and Tesla, 246, 260; woman’s movement, 301-2, 405, 413-14
Morgan, J. Pierpont, xiv, xv, 33, 42, 76-77, 98, 134, 161-62, 245-56, 307, 325, 343, 384, 443, 464-65; and G.E., 136; Niagara Falls, 174; US Steel, 250-251; and Panic of 1901, 264-65, 267-68, 304, 310; and Panic of 1907, 326-27; and Frick, 320-21, 323; and Guggenheim, 299-301; and Ryan, 298-99, 301, 305, 323; and Tesla, 247-50, 252-54, 260, 268-73, 284-86, 293, 297, 301-23, 349, 363; contract disputes, 285, 315-16; death, 361, 366
Morgan, J. P. (Jack), xv, 361-66, 369, 378, 381, 396-97, 415; funds Tesla turbine, 363, 388, 434-35; attempted assassination, 376; and RCA 393
Moore, D. McFarlan, 138, 277, 421
Moore, John C., 42
Morse, Samuel, 108
Muenter, Erich (a.k.a. Frank Holt), 375-76
Muir, John, 163, 180-81, 366
Musak, Charlotte, 458
NakaMats, Yoshiro, 468
Naval Intelligence, 389
Nesbit, Evelyn, 258, 269-70, 310, 322
Newton, Isaac, 19, 154, 202
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 239
Nobel Prize, 71, 84, 378-80, 387, 409, 420, 464
Office of Alien property, 446, 450-60
O’Neill, John (Jack), xiv, xvi, 30-31, 260, 300, 401, 413, 423, 439-40, 452, 460; first meets Tesla, 328-29; ode to Tesla, 383-84; saves Tesla’s papers, 443
Paderewski, Ignace, 123, 178-79, 189, 409
Page, Parker W., 185, 281-82
Palmer, Edward, 453
particle beam weapons, 470, 86, 168-69, 387-88, 416, 425-27, 431, 434-35, 439-40, 447-62; explained, 454, 469-70
Paul, Frank R., 396, 399, 405
Payne, Oliver, 310-12
Peck, Charles, 42, 52
Perry, Comdr. T., 226-28
Peter, King, 441, 447-48
Pfund, Richard, 361, 377
Pickering, William, 152-53, 156, 337, 404
plurality of worlds, 155. See also Mars; Tesla
Poeschl, Prof., 15-16, 201
Possell, C. R., 402-3
Potter, Adrian, 411
Poulsen, Valdemar, 328, 421
Pratt, David, 459
Preece, William, 84-85, 88, 108, 120, 172-73, 186-87, 275
Pribic, Nikola, 18
Price, Charles W., 214
Prodigal Genius, xiv
Project Seafarer, 476
Pulitzer, Joseph 141
Puharich, Andrija (Henry), 300, 355, 461
Pupin, Michael, 68-70, 74-76, 238, 373-74, 377, 383, 421; befriends E
lihu Thomson, 72; befriends Marconi, 236-37, 263, 276-79, 309; litigation testimony, 371; telephone patent, 144-45, 236-37; dispute with Tesla, 130-31; obfuscation of Tesla’s name, 80, 167, 437; reconciliation, 436-37
Purkyne,Jan, 19
Puskas, Ferenc, 20, 27-28
Puskas, Tivadar, 20, 27
Pyle National Co., 392, 397-99
quantum physics, 103, 168-69, 424, 498n. 60
radiant energy, 168
Radosavljevich, Paul (Rado), 429, 442
Rand, Ayn, 467-68
Rankine, William B., 137, 151, 171-72, 230, 245, 305-6
Rasquin, William J., 405-8
Ratzlaff, John, xiv
Rau, Louis, 29
Rayleigh, Lord, 90-91, 112, 175
RCA, 354, 358, 392-94, 409, 429, 444, 455, 460
Reagan, Ronald, 197
Redfield, James, 468
Reis, Philip, 328
remote control, see telautomaton, tuned circuits, wireless transmission
Rhodes, Cecil, 180, 345
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 404
Righi, A., 372, 379
Ritchen, H. B., 452
Robinson, Corinne (Mrs. Douglas Robinson), 241, 245, 247
Robertson, Andrew W., 430-31
Rockefeller, John D., 295, 296, 310, 325-26
Roeg, Nicholas, 468
Roentgen, William, 167-70, 173, 175, 178, 209, 231, 388, 410
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 381, 409, 434, 442, 447-48; assistant sec’y of navy, 368, 377, 388, 409; Farragut Letter, 309; RCA, 392-93; use of Tesla priority in wireless; against Marconi, 368
Roosevelt, Theodore, 163, 195, 266, 326, 369, 383, 392, 438; meets Tesla, 245
Ross, Harvey, 459
Royal Academy of Science (Sweden), 378-79
Rudyar, Dane, 469-70
Russell, Walter, 424
Rutherford, Ernest, 103, 377
Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 312, 320, 326; negotiations with Tesla, 296-297, 323; and J. P. Morgan, 298, 301, 305
Sarnoff, David, 354, 358, 374-75, 444, 463, 525-26n. 16
Satterlee, Herbert, 160, 245-46, 355, 361
Savo, Peter, 419
Sawyer, William, 31-32, 36, 70, 147
scalar waves, 96, 461, 498n. 60
Scherff, George, 189-90, 217, 237-38, 281, 289, 292, 294, 309, 312, 319, 322, 327, 393, 397; first meets Tesla, 161; correspondence, 219, 230-31; financial support of Tesla, 324, 340-41; ozone therapy for wife, 341-42
Schiaparalli, Giovanni, 155
Schiff, Jacob, 246, 250, 265, 298, 320, 323, 325, 351
Schley, Winfield Scott, 215
Schmid, Albert, 54, 59, 65, 78, 99, 100, 148
Schuman cavity resonance, 472
Schwab, Charles, 250-51, 432-34
Schwarz, Mrs. F. A. O., 289, 340-41
Scott, Charles, 53, 54, 59-60, 65, 78, 100, 133, 342, 360, 377, 385, 421, 430
Sekulic, Martin, 13
Sellers, Coleman, 134
Serrell, Lemuel, 40
Seymour, John (patent commissioner), disputes with Pupin, 144, 236; chastises Marconi, 373
Shallenberger, Oliver, 101, 133, 384; AC meter invention, 49, 54; disputes with Tesla, 59, 78
Sheep, George, 84
Sherman, Thomas G., 325
Shindo, Masaki, 469
Simpson & Crawford, 211
Slaby, Adolf, 231, 250, 361, 389, 391
Smiley, J. B., 386
Smith, Lawrence M. C., 454
space-time, 102, 420, 461
Spanel, Abraham N., 448-49, 458-59
Spanish American War, 190, 194-95, 205-6, 208-13, 414
Sperry, Elmer, 71, 377
Sprague, Frank, 132, 175, 279, 358, 377
Stallo, Edmund, 325, 359
standing waves, 99, 230
Stanley, William, 24-25, 46, 49-50, 54, 63, 71, 147, 430
Stanton, Desire (a.k.a. Mrs. G. McClurg), 214, 216
Steinmetz, Charles, 78-79, 81, 135-36, 241, 276, 357, 384, 464; defense of Tesla AC system, 76; obfuscation of Tesla’s name, 73, 79-81; doctored Einstein/Steinmetz photo, 525-26n. 16; socialist-capitalist conflict, 75, 277, 411-12
Stetson, Francis Lynde, 135, 174-75, 178
Stillwell, Lewis B., 54, 78, 133-35, 241, 384
Stockbridge, Frank Parker, 339-40
Stoilkovic, Stanko, 436-37, 440
Stokowski, Leopold, 355
Stone, John Stone, 372-73, 375, 377
Storm, Margaret, xiii, 468
Strickfadden, Kenneth, 428
Strong, F. Finch, 158
Stumpf, Carl, 18-19, 200
Swezey, Kenneth, 412-13, 448, 450, 458
Szigety, Anthony, 20-22, 43, 66
tachyon, 418, 423-25
Tate, Alfred O., 38
Tauscher, Hans, 433-34
Taylor, Myron, 419
telautomaton, 19, 193-203, 239-42, 317, 349, 407
Telefunken, 360, 368, 374, 377, 381; pays Tesla royalties, 361, 369, 397; increases size of Sayville, 369-70; subpoenas Marconi, 371; wireless spying, 375, principals arrested, 377, 388
telepathy, 91, 94, 355
telluric currents, 188-89. See also earth currents
Terbo, William, ix-xii, 7, 418
Tesla, Angelina (Trbojevich), 6-7, 13, 93, 190, 293
Tesla, Dane, 7, 10-11, 441, 465-67, 488n. 28
Tesla, Djouka (Mandic), 6-7, 10, 93, 98, 415, 441, 465-67
Tesla, Josip, 6-7, 13
Tesla, Marica (Kosanovic), 7, 93, 95, 190, 293
Tesla, Milka (Glumicic), 7, 93, 293
Tesla, Milutin, 6-7, 10, 16, 18
Tesla, Nikola: 289; autobiography, 399-400; beliefs concerning life after death, 165, 385-86; birth, 1, 7; birthday celebrations, 383, 421, 441, 464; body, sends electricity through, 89-90, 112-113, 120, 142, 325; Buddhist influence, see Buddhism, Akâsa, Vivekananda; celibacy, 207-8; Colorado Springs notebook, 219-20, 283, 508-09nn. 19, 20; cult figure, xiii, 428-29, 467-70; death, 444-51, 448; Descartes, influence, 19, 202; as ditch digger, 40-42; at Paris Edison Works, 27-30; Pearl Street Station, 33-39; salary controversy, 34-35, 38-39; Edison Medal, 384-86, 396, 458, 463; eidetic imagery, 11, 509n. 20; and ESP, 91, 94, 382, 400, 439; extraterrestrial connection, 152, 154-55, 157, 216, 220-26, 241, 318, 351, 404, 416, 422, 465, 467-68, 509n. 17; gambling, 17, 466; heritage, 1-4; honorary doctorate, 130-31; honors, 441-42, 464; hotel bills unpaid, 292, 301, 405-8, 412, 430, 434; illnesses, 13-14, 22, 29, 93-95, 169; laboratory fire, 146-47; nervous collapse, 314, 319, 321-25; obfuscation of his name: see Hering, Pupin, Steinmetz, E. Thomson; Kline: 490n. 47; Hughes: 490n. 52; personality, 11-12, 174-77, 188-90, 197-98, 207, 228, 307-8, 328, 337, 385-86, 412-13, 440-11; psychoanalysis, 440-41, 465-67; pool playing ability, 28, 141; revelation, 22-23; sexuality, 17, 412, 465-67; pigeons, 325, 381, 385, 404, 412, 414, 429-30, 440-43, 466-67; press attacks, 196-99, 226, 241-42; secret papers, 446-62, 468-69; remark, anti-Semitic, 212; suppression of papers, 443; ship named after Tesla, 445; and quantum model of atom 168-69; vs. relativity, 102, 418, 420-27, 461, 526n. 5; on radioactivity, 424-25
tesla, 464
Tesla Electric Co., 41, 43, 361
Tesla Memorial Society, xiv, 464
Tesla Museum, 300, 459, 471
Tesla Ozone Co., 341
Thaw, Harry 310, 322
Thomson, Elihu, 25, 36, 38, 40, 46-48, 63, 69, 71, 74, 76, 119, 135, 241, 279, 377, 381, 384; AC invention, 81; arc lighting, 40; disputes with Tesla, 48, 70, 72; and Martian canals, 156, 404; and stolen AC blueprints, 78, 135-36; Thomson-Houston Co., 70, 77-78.
Thomson J. J., 84, 86, 108, 377
Thompson, Sylvanus P., 25, 120, 276
Thomson-Houston, see Thomson, Elihu
Thurston, R. H., 44, 99
Tito, Joseph, 447, 464
Trbojevich, Nicholas, ix-xi, 294, 383, 418-19, 450-51
Trump, John O., 452-57
tuned circuits, 99, 109, 218, 232, 348
turbines, see bladeless turbines
Twain, Mark 35, 160, 207-8, 238, 336; meeting with Tes
la, 127; photographed in lab 128, 139; saves Hammond Sr., 345; Tesla deal, 197
Tyndall, John, 115
Uhlman, Lewis, 217, 231
Upton, Francis, 36-37, 71
Vail, B. A., 41
Van de Graff, Robert, 454, 525-30n. 25
Van Tassel, George, 468
vector waves, 96, 461, 498n. 60
Verne, Jules, 155
Viereck, George Sylvester, 337, 369, 436, 438-42
Villard, Henry, 37, 76-77, 134
Vivekananda, Swami, 161-62, 164-65, 239, 257, 260
Von Braun, Werner, 156, 529n. 18
Vril power, 63, 193-94, 197, 202, 216
VTOLs 329-35; 403
Wallace, Henry, 442, 448-49
Waltham Watch Company, 399
War of the Worlds, 154
Warden, James, 260, 291, 309, 324
Wardenclyffe, 260-74, 276, 283-91, 349, 362, 464; height, 271, 313; underground construction, 283, 290-91, 407-8; cupola, 290; destruction, 385, 393, 395
Webb, J. Beavor, 162
Weaver, Gen., 353
Weilage, G. J., 443
Westinghouse, George, xiv, 38, 46, 48-60, 74, 76-77, 82, 150, 171, 175, 238, 255, 360, 384, 386, 400, 465; war of the currents, 47; purchases Tesla patents, 49-50, 52-53, 58-59, 190, 210; and Chicago World’s Fair, 100, 119; harnesses Niagara Falls, 134-137, 175; letter to Tesla, 238; death, 366-67. See also Westinghouse Company
Westinghouse Company, 52, 100-101, 119, 147-48, 151, 214, 360, 391, 401,
Westinghouse Company (cont’d) 430-31, 452, 455; swap with GE for Tesla patents, entente cordial, 178, 190, 276-77, 393, 524n. 53; reclaims Tesla’s equipment, 291; pays Tesla’s rent, 435
Westinghouse Electric Tesla polyphase system, 101, 148
Wetzler, Joseph, 44, 66, 70-71, 84, 277
Wheeler, George, 161, 299
White, Stanford, 35, 98, 122, 194, 231, 246, 310-311, 325, 343,362; assassination, 322-23; Chicago World’s Fair, 159; girl-in-the-pie party, 160; and Tesla, 158-59, 160-64, 179, 245; and Wardenclyffe, 261-62, 266-67, 269-72, 301
Whyte, William, 464
Wilbur, Curtis, 354
Williams, G., 184
Wilson, Ernest, 344
Wilson, Robert Anton, 470
Wilson, Woodrow, 354, 364, 368-69, 377, 381, 388, 409-10; war powers act restricting wireless, 391-92, 401
wireless transmission, 83, 88, 99, 103-10, 115, 121, 126, 143, 146, 157, 165-66, 187-88, 211, 213, 232-34, 239, 241, 253-54, 273, 285, 350-51, 389, 419, 439; patents, 311-12, 391, 430; priority discussion, 185, 280-82, 359, 363, 368, 371-72, 387-88, 391, 430; non-interferable messages, 248-49, 281, 350-51; wireless telephone, 218, 232, 369; ground connection, 99, 143, 219; tuned circuits, 99, 109, 166, 216, 218, 232, 281, 348, 372, 407; of pictures, 183; stationary waves, 317, 471-74; of power, 86, 105, 107, 114, 176-77, 189, 230, 318, 351, 419 telephotography (and television), 247; world telegraphy, 287. See also Colorado Springs; earth currents; magnifying transmitter; telautomaton; Wardenclyffe.
