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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 O'Neill, and here, O'Neill captures the man as a scientist and as a public figure, exploring: . how Tesla's 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 . Tesla's friendship with Mark Twain . the story of Tesla's lost Nobel Prize . Tesla's dabblings in the paranormal . and much more. JOHN JOSEPH O'NEILL (b. 1889) also wrote Engineering the New Age and You and the Universe: What Science Reveals.

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• Full title: Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
• Author: John J. O'Neill
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781602067431
• ISBN: 1602067430
• ID: 12361636
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Weight: 562 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: August 2007

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