Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (84 page)

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, 488
n.
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, 508-09
nn.
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, 509
n.
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, 509
n.
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: 490
n.
47; Hughes: 490
n.
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, 526
n.
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 Tesla, 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, 525-30
n.
25

Van Tassel, George, 468

vector waves, 96, 461, 498
n.
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, 529
n.
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, 524
n.
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.

Wise, Tad, xv

Wittenberg, Philip, 452

Wright Brothers, xi, 309, 332, 345

Zahm, A. F., 333.

Zenneck, Jonathan, 361

Zivic, Fritzie, 414

Zmai, Jovan Jovanovich, 95, 119, 124-25

Zoric, Milica, 13

P
ast editor of
MetaScience, A New Age Journal on Consciousness,
Marc J. Seifer presently edits the
Journal of the American Society of Professional Graphologists.
With over seventy publications in such periodicals as
Rhode Island Business Quarterly, Rhode Island Bar Journal, Hands On Electronics, Extraordinary Science, Parapsychology Review, Lawyers Weekly
and
Psychiatric Clinics of North America,
Dr. Seifer is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of graphology and also on the inventor Nikola Tesla (the subject of his doctoral dissertation). Featured in Marquis’
Who’s Who in the World, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Economist, Providence Journal
(Sunday supplement),
Niagara Falls Review
(Sunday supplement), the
Miami Herald
and the
Washington Post,
he has lectured at such institutions as the United Nations, Kings College, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Vancouver, City College of New York, Long Island University, Colorado College, Cranbrook Retreat, Kendall College, West Point Military Academy, as well as in Boston, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Denver, Detroit, Providence, New York, Santa Fe, Tucson, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

His works include
Staretz Encounter
(novel and screenplay),
Tesla: The Lost Wizard
(screenplay co-author),
Handwriting & Brainwriting
(collected works),
Hail to the Chief
(screenplay),
The Stephen Rosati Story
(true crime) and
Mad Scientist of the Gilded Age
(video short documentary). He has also written articles on such individuals as Wilhelm Reich, Gurdjieff, the Dalai Lama, Uri Geller, J. Pierpont Morgan, John Hays Hammond Jr., John Muir, Edwin Armstrong, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Franklin Roosevelt, and Steven Jobs.

With a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, five semesters of graphology at the New School for Social Research, photography at the School of Visual Arts, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute, Dr. Seifer works as a handwriting expert and testifies in court. He is also a visiting lecturer in Psychology at Roger Williams University.