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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (69 page)
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Handwriting & Brainwriting
(collected works)
Staretz Encounter
(novel)
Hail to the Chief
(screenplay)
The Steven Rosati Story
(true-crime biography)
Alker, Henry, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
†Anderson, Leland, Denver, Colo.
Basura, Nick, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Seifer, Thelma, West Hempstead, N.Y.
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White, John, Cheshire, Conn.
*Interviewed because of special knowledge about the subject.
†Personally knew associates of Tesla.
‡Personally met with Tesla.
OTES
Preface, pp. xiii-xvi
1. Margaret Storm,
Return of the Dove
(Baltimore: M. Storm Productions, 1956).
2. Nikola Tesla,
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
(Williston, Vt.: Hart Brothers, 1982) [Originally published, 1919].
1. Nikola Tesla, “Zmai Ivan Ivanovich, the Chief Servian Poet of To-day.” In R. U. Johnson, ed.,
Songs of Liberty and Other Poems
(New York: Century Company, 1897).
2. Personal trip to Yugoslavia, 1986.
3. Robert Lee Wolff,
The Balkans in Our Time
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956).
4. Michael Markovitch, personal interview, 1988.
5. Louis Adamic,
My Native Land
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943).
6. Michael Boro Petrovich,
The History of Nineteenth-Century Serbia,
2 vols. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), p. 5.
7. Petrovich,
History,
p. xii.
8. Markovitch, interview, 1988.
9. Markovitch, interview, 1988.
10. Adamic,
My Native Land,
p. 270.
11. Ibid; Petrovich,
History,
pp. 142-43, 350-51.
1. NT, “A Story of Youth” (1939). In John Ratzlaff, ed.,
Tesla Said
(Milbrae, Calif.: Tesla Book Co., 1984), pp. 283-84. Articles included in this volume will be referred to hereafter by two datesof original composition and the date of the Ratzlaff anthology.
2. John O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla.
(New York: Ives Washburn, 1944), p. 12.
3. Ibid., p. 13.
4. Nikola Pribic, personal correspondence, April 19, 1988.
5. V. Popovic,
Nikola Tesla.
(Belgrade: Tecnicka Knjiga, 1951).
6. O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius,
p. 11.
7. Nikola Tesla, “Scientists Honor Nikola Tesla.” Unidentified newspaper article, 1894. Displayed at the Edison Archives, Menlo Park, N.J.
8. Nikola Tesla,
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
(Williston, Vt: Hart, 1982), p. 29; originally published in
Electrical Experimenter,
in six monthly installments, February-July, 1919.
9. William Terbo, interview, 1988.
10. Birth charts from M. Markovitch archives.
11. Tesla,
My Inventions,
p. 30.
12. Terbo interview, 1988.
13. T. C. Martin, “Nikola Tesla,”
Century,
February 1894, pp. 582-85; Tesla, April 22, 1893. Branimira Valic, ed.,
My Inventions
(Zagreb: Moji Pronalasci; Skolska Kanjiga, 1977).
14. O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius,
p. 10.
15. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 31.
16. O’Neill,
Prodigal Genius,
p. 12.
17. Tesla, 1939/1984.
18. T. C. Martin, “Nikola Tesla,”
Electrical World
15, no. 7 (1890), p. 106.
19. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 45.
20. NT, 1939/1984, p. 285.
21. Ibid., pp. 284-85 (condensed).
22. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 29.
23. Ibid., p. 30.
24. NT, “Nikola Tesla and His Wonderful Discoveries,”
N.Y. Herald,
April 23, 1893, p. 31.
25. D. Budisavljevic, “A Relative of Tesla’s Comments on the Tesla Library,” in Nikola Kasanovich, ed.,
Tesla Memorial Society Newsletter,
Spring 1989, p. 3.
26. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 30; NT, 1939/1984, p. 283.
27. The date may have been 1861.
28. NT,
My Inventions,
p. 28. Rumors suggesting Niko pushed his brother down a flight of stairs stem from A. Beckhard,
Electrical Genius, Nikola Tesla
(New York: Julian Messner, 1959). Beckhard’s book, clearly written for young adults, utilized only one referenced source, the O’Neill work. An imaginative writer, Beckhard made up the names of the townspeople from Tesla’s childhood as well. In
Tesla: Man Out of Time
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981) Margaret Cheney repeats the rumor without referencing it. Leland Anderson, who helped on the research, stated that Cheney heard the story at the Tesla Museum. The original source was probably still Beckhard, as the book is prominently referred to by V. Popovic, professor at Belgrade University and vice president (in 1976) of the Tesla Society in Belgrade in his article “Nikola TeslaTrue Founder of Radio Communications,” in
Tesla: Life and Work of a Genius
(Belgrade: Nikola Tesla Society, 1976).