Nikola Tesla was born in 1856; he was a Serbian-American engineer and scientist who produced hundreds of discoveries in generating, transmitting, and using electric power. He pioneered AC ...

The first of a planned trilogy. Nikola Tesla's tales as told to a female cub reporter assigned to cover him, seeking to reveal the secrets of a man who had come to be labeled a "mad scientist".

O'Neill's biography of the inventor, "Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla," which was first published in 1944, a year after Tesla's death. According to O'Neill, the man who approached Tesla ...