Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (71 page)

4. “Tesla Electric Co.” (advertisement),
Electrical Review,
September 14, 1886, p. 14.

5. NT,
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla,
Ben Johnston, ed., p. 72; Anderson,
Nikola Tesla,
p. 12.

6. “Tesla Electric Co.,” September 14, 1886, p. 14.

7. Kulishich, “Tesla Nearly Missed His Career,” 1931.

8. NT, Letter to the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare (May 11, 1938), in
Tesla Said,
1984, p. 280.

9. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 72.

10. NT, Letter to the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare (May 11, 1938), in
Tesla Said,
1984, p. 280.

11. Ibid.

12. Alfred S. Brown, “Arc Lamp Patents,”
Electrician and Electrical Engineer,
1886.

13. NT. 12/1931, p. 78.

14. Hugo Gernsback, “Tesla’s Egg of Columbus,”
Electrical Experimenter,
March 19, 1919, p. 775 [paraphrased].

15. NT.
Nikola Tesla: Lectures, Patents, Articles
(Belgrade: Nikola Tesla Museum, 1956).

16. O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius,
p. 67.

17. TCM,
Nikola Tesla,
1890, p. 106.

18. “Thomas Commerford Martin Dies,”
Electrical World,
May 24, 1924, p. 1100.

19. Ibid.;
Who’s Who of Electrical Engineers,
1924 ed.

20. W. J. Johnston, “Mr. Martin’s Lawsuit: Why and How It Failed,”
Electrical World,
Part I, September 30, 1893, pp. 253-54; Part VII, November 11, 1893, pp. 382-87.

21. “Thomas Commerford Martin Dies,”
Electrical World,
May 24, 1924.

22. Ibid., p. 5.

23. M. Josephson,
Thomas Alva Edison
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), p. 356.

24. H. Byllesby to GW, May 21, 1888 [GWA].

25. Leonard Curtis in Henry Prout,
George Westinghouse: An Intimate Portrait
(New York: Wiley, 1939), p. 101.

26. Prout, pp. 101-4.

27. Charles F. Scott, “Early Days in the Westinghouse Shop,”
Electrical World,
September 20, 1924, p. 586.

28. T. Hughes,
Network of Power
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), pp. 101-3.

29. Prout,
George Westinghouse,
p. 95.

30. Scott, “Early Days.”

31. Robert Silverberg,
Light for the World
(Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1967), p. 233.

32. Alfred O. Tate,
Edison’s Open Door
(New York: Dutton, 1938), p. 148.

33. Laurence Hawkins,
William Stanley: His Life and Times
(New York: Newcomen Society, 1939).

34. George Westinghouse, “No Special Danger,”
New York Times,
December 13, 1888, 5:3.

35. Josephson,
Thomas Alva Edison,
p. 346.

36. David Woodbury,
Beloved Scientist: Elihu Thomson
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1944), pp. 169, 179.

37. Josephson,
Thomas Alva Edison,
p. 346.

38. N. Tesla, “A New Alternating Current Motor,”
Electrician,
June 15, 1888, p. 173.

39. Leland Anderson, Nikola Tesla (slide presentation) (Colorado Springs, Colo.: International Tesla Society, 1988) symposium. August 1988.

40. William Anthony, quoted in NT, “A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers,” (May 16, 1888), in
Lectures, Patents and Articles
(1956), p. Lll.

41. Elihu Thomson, quoted in NT, i bid., p. L12.

42. Ibid., p. L12.

43. H. Byllesby to GW, May 21, 1888.[GWA].

44. H. Byllesby to GW, May 21, 1888 [GWA].

45. Ibid.; see also Harold Passer,
The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875-1900
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 175.

46. H. Byllesby to GW, December 13, 1888.

47. C. C. Chesney and Charles F. Scott, “Early History of the AC System in America,”
Electrical Engineering,
March 1936, pp. 228-35.

48. NT. “Mr. Tesla on Alternating Current Motors,” letter to the editor,
Electrical World,
May 25, 1888, pp. 297-98; NT,
Tesla Said,
(1984), p. 4.

49. Henry Carhart, “Professor Galileo Ferraris,”
Electrical World,
February 1887, p. 284, “as I understand it, there is a gigantic step from Ferraris’ whirling pool to Tesla’s whirling magnetic field,” Pupin to Tesla, December 19, 1891 [NTM].

50. Passer,
Electrical Manufacturers,
p. 177.

51. G. Westinghouse, internal memorandum. July 5, 1888 [GWA].

52. Ibid.; see also Passer,
Electrical Manufacturers,
pp. 277-78.

1. N. Tesla, “Death of Westinghouse,”
Electrical World,
March 21, 1914, p. 637.

2. Charles F. Scott, “Early Days in the Westinghouse Shops,”
Electrical World,
September 20, 1924, pp. 585-87.

3. Ibid., p. 586.

4. NT, “Tribute to George Westinghouse,”
Electrical World & Engineer,
March 21, 1914, p. 637.

5. H. Passer,
The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875-1900
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 279.

6. G. Westinghouse, memorandum, July 11, 1888 [GWA].

7. Undated memorandum [GWA]; Passer,
Electrical Manufacturers,
said that the author was Byllesby, July 7, 1888.

8. NT to GW, January 2, 1900 [LC].

9. NT to GW, September 12, 1892; November 29, 1898 [LC].

10. NT to JJA. January 6, 1899 [NTM].

11. Westinghouse Co. annual report,
Electrical Review,
June 30, 1897, p. 313.

12. The figure most often noted is $1 million, and the source is O’Neill. This same amount was mentioned by R. U. Johnson in his chapter on Tesla in his autobiography, “This to the man who had sold the inventions used at Niagara to the Westinghouse Company for a million dollars and lived to rue the bargain!”
(Remembered Yesterdays
[Boston: Little Brown, 1923], 401). As Johnson was Tesla’s closest confidant, the figure must have originally come from Tesla.

13. Letter to Westinghouse Corporation, February 6, 1898 [LC]; Tesla may have also been influenced by the consensus concerning the noble profession of scientist. For instance, Louis Pasteur also refused to seek financial compensation for his discoveries. To do so, Pasteur said, a scientist would “lower himself…A man of pure science would complicate his life and risk paralyzing his inventive faculties” (quoted in M. Josephson,
Thomas Alva Edison
[New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959], p. 336).

14. Leland Anderson, ed.,
Nikola Tesla: On His Work With Alternating Currents…
(1916), pp. 64-65.

15. P. Callahan, “Tesla Stationary Obtained from Tesla Museum.”

16. Scott, September 20, 1924.

17. Charles F. Scott, to NT, July 10, 1931 [BCU].

18. Ibid.

19. L. Hawkings,
William Stanley: His Life and Times
(New York: Newcomen Society, 1939), p. 32; Stanley advertisement, “The S.K.C. Two Phase System,”
Electrical Review,
January 16, 1895, p. vii.

20. Charles F. Scott,
George Westinghouse Commemoration
(New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1936, 1985), p. 21.

21. Henry Prout,
W. Westinghouse: An Intimate Portrait
(New York: Wiley, 1939), p. 129.

22. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 23.

23. “Brown Executes Dogs,”
New York Times,
July 31, 1888, 4:7.

24. “A Humane Method of Capital Punishment,”
Electrical Review,
December 24, 1887; “One Dead Dog,” ibid., July 20, 1889, p. 2.

25. “Edison and Capital Punishment,”
Electrical Review,
June 30, 1888, p. 1; “Edison Says It Will Kill,”
New York Sun,
July 4, 1889.

26. “Electricity on Animals,”
New York Times,
December 13, 1888, p. 2.

27. George Westinghouse, “No Special Danger,”
New York Times,
December 13, 1888, p. 5.

28. Harold P. Brown, “Electric Currents,”
New York Times,
December 18, 1888, p. 5.

29. “Cockran Debates McKinley at Madison Square Garden,”
New York Press,
August 19, 1896, pp. 1-2.

30. “Electricity as a Means of Execution,”
Elecrical Review,
August 3, 1889; “Edison Says It Will Kill,”
New York Sun,
July 24, 1889.

31. “Electricity as a Means,”
Electrical Review,
August 3, 1889.

32. “Electrical Execution a Failure,”
Electrical Review,
August 16, 1890, pp. 1-2.

33. “Kemmler Dies in Electric Chair,”
New York Times,
August 6, 1890, p. 1.

34. B. Lamme,
An Autobiography
(New York: Putnam’s, 1926), p. 60.

35. O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius,
p. 83.

36. B. Lamme,
Autobiography,
p. 60.

37. Ibid., p. v.

38. Francis Jehl,
Menlo Park Reminiscences
(Dearborn, Mich.: Edison Institute, 1939), p. 336.

39. Charles F. Scott, “Nikola Tesla’s Achievements in the Electrical Art,”
AIEE Transactions,
1943, p. 3.

1. “Who Is the Greatest Genius of Our Age?”
Review of Reviews,
July 1890, p. 45.

2. Nikola Tesla, “The True Wireless,”
Electrical Experimenter,
May 1919, p. 28, in NT,
Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets,
J. Ratzlaff, ed. (1981), p. 62.

3. John O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius
(New York: Ives Washburn, 1944), p. 77.

4. NT to JPM, December 10, 1900 [LC]

5. NT, “On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator,”
Elecrical Engineer,
December 21, 1892; in NT,
Tesla Said,
J. Ratzlaff, ed. (Milbrae, Calif.: Tesla Book Co., 1984), p. 22.

6. J. G. O’Hara and W. Pricha,
Hertz and the Maxwellians
(London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd. in assoc. with the Science Museum, 1987), p. 42.

7. NT, December 21, 1892; “New Radio Theories,”
New York Herald Tribune,
Sepember 22, 1929, in NT,
Tesla Said,
pp. 225-26.

8. Nikola Pribic, “Nikola Tesla: The Human Side of a Scientist,”
Tesla Journal
no. 2/3, 1982-83, p. 25.

9. 1889 newspaper clipping, Edison Archives, Menlo Park, N.J.

10. R. Conot.
Streak of Luck
(New York: Bantam Books, 1981), pp. 344-46; M. Josephson,
Thomas Alva Edison
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), pp. 335-37.

11. Ambrose Fleming, “Nikola Tesla,” in NT,
Tribute to Nikola Tesla: Letters, Articles
(1961), p. A-222.

12. Louis Hamon,
My Life With the Occult
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1933, 1972), p. 243.

13.
Review of Reviews,
July 1890, p. 45.

14. “Was Keely a Charlatan?”
Public Opinion,
December 1, 1898, p. 684.

15. T. Carpenter Smith, “Our View of the Keely Motor,”
Engineering Magazine,
vol. 2, 1891-92, pp. 14-19.

16. “Keely Not Yet in Jail,”
New York Times,
September 19, 1888, p. 1.

17. “Keely’s Latest Move,”
New York Times,
August 24, 1888, p. 5.

18. “Keely in Contempt,”
New York Times,
November 11, 1888, p. 6.

19. “Inventor Keely in Jail,”
New York Times,
November 18, 1888, p. 3.

20. Francis Lynde Stetson, quoted in
William Birch Rankine,
deLancy Rankine, ed. (Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Power City Press, 1926), p. 30.

21. “Science and Sensationalism,”
Public Opinion,
December 1, 1898, pp. 684-85.

22. W. Barrett, “John W. Keely,” in R. Bourne, ed.,
The Smithsonian Book of Invention
(New York: Norton, 1978), pp. 120-21.

23. Ibid.

24. NT to RUJ, June 12, 1900 [BLCU].

1. Joseph Wetzler, “Electric Lamps Fed From Space, and Flames That Do Not Consume,”
Harper’s Weekly,
July 11, 1891, p. 524.

2. NT to Petar Mandic, August 18, 1890, in Nicholas Kosanovich, ed. and trans.,
Nikola Tesla: Correspondence with Relatives
(1995), p. 15.

3. Ibid., May 17, 1894.

4. Ibid. Angelina Trbojevic to NT, January 2, 1897, p. 65.

5. Ibid. Jovo Trbojevic to Nikola Tesla, February 27, 1890; Milutin Tesla (a cousin) to Nikola Kosanovic, November 10, 1892.

6. Ibid. NT to Petar Mandic, December 8, 1893, p. 41.

7. Ibid. NT to Pajo Mandic, January 23, 1894, p. 42.

8. Ibid. Milkin Radivoj to NT, September 24, 1895, p. 51.

9. Karl Marx, “The Materialist Conception of History;” in P. Gardiner, ed.,
Theories of History
(Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1959), p. 134.

10. NT, “Problem of Increasing Human Energy,”
Century,
June 1900, pp. 178-79.

11. T. C. Martin to NT, August 5, 1890 [NTM].

12. William Anthony, “A Review of Modern Electrical Theories,”
AIEE Transactions,
February 1890, pp. 33-42. See also J. Ratzlaff and L. Anderson,
Dr. Nikola Tesla Bibliography, 1884-1978
(Palo Alto, Calif.: Ragusen Press, 1979), p. 6.

13. M. Pupin,
From Immigrant to Inventor
(New York: Scribners, 1923), p. 144.

14. Oscar May, “The High-Pressure Transmission of Power Experiments at Oerlikon,”
Electrical World,
April 18, 1891, p. 291.

15. Louis Duncan, “Portrait,”
Electrical World,
April 5, 1890, p. 236; “Alternating Current Motors, Part 2,” June 16, 1891, pp. 357-58; Ratzlaff and Anderson,
Bibliography,
p. 7.

16. Pupin,
From Immigrant to Inventor,
pp. 283-84.

17. Elihu Thomson, “Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency,”
Electrical World,
April 4, 1891, p. 254.For previous aspects of the debate, see also E. Thomson, “Notes on Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency,
Electrical World,
March 14, 1891, pp. 204-5; “Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency,”
Electrical World,
April II, 1891, pp. 223-24.

18. NT, “High Frequency Experiments,”
Electrical World,
February 21, 1891, pp. 128-30.