THE STRANGE LIFE OF
NIKOLA TESLA
The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
Editors Note, August 28, 1995
This text has been entered by John R.H. Penner from a small booklet found in a
used bookstore for $2.50. The only form of date identification is the name of the
original purchaser, Arthua Daine (?), dated April 29, 1978.
The book appears to be considerably older, made with typewriters, and then
photocopied and stapled. The only other significant features of the booklet is that it
contains four photocopied photographs of Tesla, and was originally forty pages
long. I must apologise for the qualitty of the scans, but the originals were of very
poor quality, and this is the best that could be obtained after touching-up in
Photoshop.
The book has no Copyright identification, nor any means of contacting the
publishers. As far as I am aware, this autobiography is no longer available in printed
form anywhere.
In the interest of making this important text available to the wider public, I have
retyped the entire text word-for-word as it originally appears into this electronic
format. The only words which appear in this file, that are not in the original book
are this Editors Note, and the Introduction. I have exactly maintained page numbers
as they appear in the original - including the somewhat odd artifact of Chapter 1
starting on page two.
If anyone knows how to reach the original publisher, please contact me at the below
address, so proper credit may be given where it is due.
John Roland Hans Penner
464 Scott Street
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2M 3W7, Canada
Phone: 905.646.3551
eMail: J.Penner@GEnie.GEIS.com
This file may be freely redistributed as long as it's content is not modified in any
way. It may not be sold or published for profit unless specifically authorised prior to
publication by the express permission of Kolmogorov- Smirnov Publishing, or John
R.H. Penner. Unless otherwise notified, this work is Copyright ©1995 by John R.H.
Penner.
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The Strange Life of Nikla Tesla
Introduction
Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July 9, 1856,
and died January 7, 1943. He was the electrical engineer who invented the AC
(alternating current) induction motor, which made the universal transmission and
distribution of electricity possible. Tesla began his studies in physics and
