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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, Inez,
see
Hunt and Draper

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, 508
n.
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

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, 525-26
n.
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, 509
n.
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 Elihu 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, 498
n.
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, 525-26
n.
16

Satterlee, Herbert, 160, 245-46, 355, 361

Savo, Peter, 419

Sawyer, William, 31-32, 36, 70, 147

scalar waves, 96, 461, 498
n.
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, 525-26
n.
16; socialist-capitalist conflict, 75, 277, 411-12

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