Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (82 page)

Other experts who helped include John Ratzlaff, of the original Tesla Book Company, John Pettibone of Hammond Castle, Paul Baker, Nick Basura, Tom Bearden, Ralph Bergstresser, Zoran Bobic, Nancy Czito, Steve Elswick, Uri Geller, Elmer Gertz, Robert Golka, Toby Grotz, James Hardetsky, Mrs. R. U. Johnson, Jr., John Karanfilovsky, Nicholas Kosanovich, John Langdon, J. W. McGinnis, Sanford Neuschatz, Nicholas Pribic, Dr. Andrija Puharich, Sid Romero, Lynn Sevigny, Richard Vangermeersch, J. T. Walsh, Tad Wise, and Japanese inventor extraordinaire Dr. Yoshiro NakaMats. Through their works, Hugo Gernsback, Kenneth Swezey, Inez Hunt and Wanetta Draper, Herbert Satterlee, and particularly Matthew Josephson and John O’Neill.

Important institutions included the Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Brown, and Yale University libraries, archives from the University of Prague, Columbia University Butler and Avery libraries, the New York Public Library and New York Historical Society, the Edison Menlo Park Archives, the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, Hammond Castle, the Westinghouse Corporation Archives, Hugo Gernsback Publications, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the FBI, the OAP and the instrument known as the Freedom of Information Act.

I would also like to thank my close friend Elliott Shriftman for his wisdom, great generosity, and continuing encouragement; the late Prof. Edwin Gora for his understanding of Tesla’s link to theoretical physics, Roger Pearson, former dean of Providence College School of Continuing Education; and Raymond LaVertue, of Bristol Community College, for helping me put bread on my table; my sagacious agent John White, who has been with the project for over ten years; Allan Wilson (for believing in me) and Donald Davidson of Carol Publishing Group; and my loyal and altruistic partner in the screenplay
Tesla: The Lost Wizard,
Tim Eaton, visual effects editor for Industrial Light & Magic of Marin County.

The treatise is dedicated to my parents, Thelma and Stanley Seifer, my sister Meri Shardin, her husband, John Keithley and their children, Devin and Dara; my brother, Bruce Seifer, and his wife, Julie Davis; and my wonderful and understanding spouse, Lois Mary Pazienza, who has been with me throughout the entire twenty-year project.

This book is also dedicated to the Teslarians, who seek the truth from the past and a sane, ecologically minded technology for the future.

Abafi,
11

AC polyphase system, 42-43, 62, 110-11, 119, 133, 145, 149, 178, 198, 201, 215, 328, 350, 393, 430, 437; builds first model, 21-26, 29-30; explained 16, 22-23, 47-48

Adamic, Louis, 444-45

Adams, Edward Dean, 76, 133-37, 151, 159, 162, 171-72, 190, 210, 230, 245, 254, 385

Adamick, Jimmy, 414

Akâsa (Akâsha), 164-65, 169, 239, 424

Albert, Prince, 93, 326

Alexander I, 95

Alexanderson, Ernest, 390, 471

Algemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG),
see
Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot; Dolivo-Dobrowolski, Michael von

Alley, Dickenson, 294

Allis Chalmers Company, 398, 401

alternating current (AC), 16, 36, 133.
See also
AC polyphase system

American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), 44-45, 68-69

Amtorg Trading Company, 455

Anderson, Leland, xiv, 398, 402, 471

Anthony, William, 44, 48, 71

Apple Computer Company, 465

Arago, François, 24

Arbus, Muriel, 429

Armstrong, Edwin, 348, 373-74, 390-91, 429, 444-45, 463-64

artificial intelligence,
see
telautomaton

Ashara, Shoko, 469

Astor, Ava Willing, 208-9, 245, 295

Astor, John Jacob, xii, xv, 53, 64, 152, 174, 178-79, 190, 205, 208-11, 231, 241, 243-44, 253-54, 295; contract with Tesla, 162-63, 209-11, 218, 361; correspondence with Tesla, 165, 243; science fiction author, 152-54; Spanish-American War, 194-95; aircraft, 329-30, 336, 342-43; lost at sea, 342; death, 358, 361, 366

Atlantic Communication Company,
see
Telefunken)

atom (structure of), 527
n.
14.
See also
Bohr, Rutherford, Tesla theories; quantum physics

atom bomb, 529
n.
18

AUM Supreme Truth, 469

avatar, xiii, xv, 466-70

Ayer, James I., 110-11

Baily, Walter, 25; discovers rotating magnetic field, 24

Bain, Alexander, 184

Bannister, Samuel, 148

Barber, Charles, 171

Barnes, John S., 311-12

Barney, Charles, 163, 326-27

Bartanian, A., 455

Baruch, Bernard, 300-301, 326

Batchelor, Charles, 27-28, 30, 34, 108

battle of currents, 47, 55-57, 132, 135

Beam, Victor, 430

Bearden, Col. Tom, 461, 469

Becker, Robert O., 93

Beckhard, Arthur, 488
n.
28

Behrend, Bernard A., 421; defends Tesla, 80-81, 238; role in Edison Medal, 384-85

Bell, Alexander Graham, 66, 84, 119, 149, 277, 328, 345, 346, 384, 410

Belmont, August, 246, 250

Berg, Ernst Julius, 79

Bergmann, Sigmund, 364-66

Bergstressor, Ralph, 460-61

Bernarto Bros., 344

Bernhardt, Sarah, 138, 164-65, 207, 440

Bjerknes, Wilhelm, 62

bladeless turbines, 336-41, 343, 351-53; explained, 339-40; problems, 366, 397, 401-3; used to generate electricity, 419; bladeless pumps, 338

Blanc, Elsie, 410

Blavatsky, Madame, 63

Blondel, André, 93, 391

Bohr, Niels, 103, 464

Boldt, George C., 204-5, 260, 293, 319, 325, 327, 381, 386, 388, 392, 405

Boldt, George, Jr., 392

Bonjean, M., 359

Bowie, David, 468

Bradley, Charles, 25, 74

Bragg, William H., 377, 421

Branly, Edouard, 109, 379

Braun, Karl, 373, 391

Breece, Jimmy, 160

Brentano, Franz, 18

Brisbane, Arthur, 141-43, 148

Broughton, H. R., 111

Brown, Alfred S., 42, 52, 67, 137, 230

Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot, 78, 134-35; Lauffen-Frankfurt transmission, 63, 73-74; defends Tesla, 80

Brown, H. P., 55-57

Bruckner, Joseph 330

Budd Manufacturing Company, 399

Budisovljevic, Soka, 6

Budisovljevic, Toma, 6

Buitrago, Diaz, 143

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George, 63, 65, 193-94, 202

Byllesby, Henry, 46, 49, 134

Cameron, William E., 117-18

cancer, treatment with ozone, 341

Carson, John, mistaken for Tesla in Steinmetz/Einstein photo, 525-26
n.
16

Carnegie, Andrew, 250, 383, 410

Caruso, Enrico, 338

Carter, Jimmy, 462

Chamber, William Astor, 161

Chanute, Oliver, 332

Cheiro (Count Louis Hamon), 64

Cheney, M., xiv, 488
n.
28

Churchill, Winston, 447

Clark, George, 318, 448

Clemens, Samuel,
see
Mark Twain

Cockrane, W. Bourke, 57

Coffin, Charles, 77, 135

Colorado Springs (Colo.) laboratory, 213-36, 379; original transatlantic plan, 216; observation of lightning, 219; discovery of stationary waves, 219; measuring geomagnetic pulse, 220-221; extraterrestrial encounter, 221-25

Cooper, Drury W., 371

Corbett, Gentleman Jim, 245, 414

Corbett, John, 453

Cornels, Fredrich, 448-49

Conroy, Charles, 458-59

Cowles, Alfred, 311

Craigee, Gen. L. C., 459

Crawford, Marion, 139

Crookes, William, 32, 71, 85, 89, 90-92, 94, 97, 108, 209, 231, 250

Crow, W. D., 262

Cults of Unreason,
469

Curtis, H. L., 417

Curtis, Leonard E., 45, 214

Czito, Colman, 231-34, 382, 422

Czito, Julius, 231, 382, 422, 456

Czito, Nancy, 456

Dahlstrand, Hans, 398, 401

Dana, Charles, 141, 146

death ray,
see

particle beam weapons

deBobula, Titus, 427, 431-34, 457

DeForest, Lee, 357, 377, 389-91, 409, 421; and advances in wireless, 279-80, 338, 352; diary, 275; litigation with Armstrong, 374, 390, 429; meeting with Tesla, 182-83

Dempsey, Jack, 410, 414

DePew, Chauncey, 194, 245

Deprez, Marcel, 24, 93

Descartes, René, 15, 19, 200

Dewar, James, 88-90, 231

Dickson, W. L., 37

direct current (DC), 16, 36, 47-48, 132

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 231, 289

Dolivo-Dobrowolski, Michael von, 63, 76, 78, 241; Lauffen-Frankfurt transmission, 73; claim of priority in AC system, 80-81

Donegan, T. J., 450

Doty, Col. Ralph E., 446, 458

Dozier, Joseph, 215

Draper, Wanetta,
see
Hunt and Draper

Duffner, C. J., 236

DuMaurier, George, 154

Duncan, Louis, 69

Dunn, Gano, 71, 421, 444

Dvořák, Anton 124, 145, 208

earth currents, 88, 105, 107-8, 185-86, 283-84, 372-73, 472

Edison, Thomas Alva, xiv, 17, 21, 27-39, 45, 47, 55-57, 62, 64, 66, 70, 76, 84, 108,
118, 122, 133, 135, 148-49, 154, 162, 170, 174-75, 183, 194, 200, 207, 241, 246, 280, 328, 384-85, 400, 420, 428-29; conflicts with other inventors, 39, 77-78, 178; first meets Tesla, 27, 30-31; Pearl Street, 36-46; Nobel Prize nomination, 379-80; on Tesla, 27, 113-14, 266, 295-96, 360, 386; death, 421

Edison, Thomas, Jr., 194-95

Edison Electric Companies, 28, 38, 40, 77, 365

Ehrenhaft, F., 379

Eiffel, Alexander, 61-62

Eiffel Tower, 118, 267, 338

Einstein, Albert, 102-3, 197, 379, 412, 416, 418, 420-21, 440, 498
n.
60, 525-26
n.
16

Electrical Experimenter,
34, 383, 395, 399, 405

Electrical Review,
214

Electrical World,
44, 70

electromagnetism, 62, 75, 95-96, and light, 70.
See also
Hertz, Hertzian waves

electrocution, 56-58

entrainment of brain waves, 461, 530
nn.
43, 44

ether, 20, 62, 71, 101-5, 108, 110, 168-69, 239, 420-21, 499
n.
25

Evans, Christopher, 469

Evershed, Thomas, 132

Faraday, Michael, 59, 119, 464

Farmer, Moses, 31

Farnsworth, Philo, 464

FBI, 411, 434, 446-62, 468

Fechner, Gustav-Theodor, 15

Fenton, Irene, 355

Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de, 62, 133

Ferraris, Galileo, 24-25, 50, 93, 120, 328, 384

Fessenden, Reginald, 241-42, 280-82, 358, 377, 389-91

fireballs, 232, 510
n.
16

Fitzgerald, Bloyce, 449-50, 458-61

Flammarion, Camille, 154-56

Fleming, John Ambrose, 85-86, 90, 275

Flint, Charles R., 260

Flowers, John B., 417-18

flying machines, 17; flivver plane, 235, 334-35, 418; fuel-less plane, 324, 333-34; hovercraft (hydrofoil), 332-33, 342; reactive jet dirigible, 330-31

Forbes, George, defends Tesla AC motor, 111, 135

Ford, Henry, 382, 434

Foxworth, D. E., 450

Frank, Carl George, 361, 370, 374, 388

Franklin, Benjamin, 119

free energy, 65, 71, 166, 420-25, 516
n.
31

Freibott, G., 341

frequency controversies: polyphase system, 55, 59, 60, 73-74; wireless, continuous vs. pulsed, 185, 187, 218, 229, 280, 351, 374

Freud, Sigmund, 438, 464

Frick, Henry Clay, 246, 250, 320, 323, 326, 410

Galt, John, 468

Ganz & Co.. 133, 135

Gates, Bill, 465

Gates, John W., 250

Gaulard, Lucian,
see
Gaulard-Gibbs

Gaulard-Gibbs AC transformer, 24, 37, 46, 55, 58, 101, 133

Geissler, Heinrich, 71

General Electric, 77-79, 118, 135-37, 148-50, 178, 394, 401, 402, 411, 444

General Motors, 418

Gernsback, Hugo, 34, 395-96, 399, 405, 426-30, 435

Gershwin, George, 355

Gertz, Elmer, 436, 440

Gibbs, George,
see
Gaulard-Gibbs

Gilder, Richard Watson, 36, 179, 236, 239-40, 336-37, 438

Girardeau, M. E., 359

Goddard, Robert, 404

Goldschmidt, Rudolf, 375

Golka, Robert, 471

Gora, Edwin, 102

Gorsuch, Walter, 451-53

graphology, xv, 319, 321-23

Gray, Elisha, 120-21, 183, 248

Griggs, John, 390

Grindell-Mathews, Harry, 426-27

Guggenheim, family, 299-301, 325-26, 345, 366

Gurdjieff, George, 202

Gurth, Max, 402

Guzman Prize, 422

Hammond, John Hayes, Sr., x, xv, 178, 180, 300-301, 325, 343-46, 348, 353-56

Hammond, John Hayes, Jr. (Jack), xv, 343-56, 362, 370, 372, 377, 389, 409-10, 421, 429; radio guidance system, 344-48, 353-55; contract with Tesla, 345-53, 355, 364; meets Edison, 345-46; work with Bell, 346-47; marriage, 355; inventions, 346; Navy and War departments, 347-49, 353-55; death, 356

Hamon, Count Louis,
see
Cheiro

Harriman, Ned, 250, 264-65, 268, 295-96

Haselwander, Fredrich August, 25

Hausler, Charles, 450, 456

Havemeyer, H. O., 231

Hawthorne, Julian, 241; Tesla/Martian signals, 224-25, 257-58

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 225, 258

Hearst, William Randolph, 141, 355

Heaviside, Oliver, 81, 85

Hedetneimi, Charles, 453-56

Heinreich, Earnest, 190, 256-57

Heinze, Augustus, 326-27

Heisenberg, Werner, 102, 529
n.
18

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig von, 19, 61, 68, 95, 119-20

Henry, Joseph, 108, 119, 278

Hering, Carl, 241, 277; opposition to Tesla, 72, 74-75, 80-81

Hertz, Heinrich, 61-62, 70, 104, 109-10, 172, 184, 218, 249, 278, 372, 498
n.
60; death, 126; EM theories, 96-97; meets Tesla, 95-97.
See also
Hertzian waves

Hertzian waves, 99, 107, 109, 344, 351, 357, 418.
See also
Bjerknes, Wilhelm; Hertz, Heinrich; Mach, Ernst; Stone, John Stone

Hess, Victor, 423

Hewitt, Peter Cooper, 160

Hiergesell, David, 84

Higginson, Adm. Francis J., 206, 226-28, 238, 389-90

Hitler, Adolf, 436-39, 442, 447-48