Heritage -- Childhood (1856-74) -- College years (1875-82) -- Tesla meets the wizard of Menlo Park (1882-85) -- Liberty street (1886-88) -- Induction at Pittsburgh (1889) -- Bogus inventors (1889-90) -- South fifth avenue (1890-91) -- Revising the past (1891) -- The royal society (1892) -- Father of the wireless (1893) -- Electric sorcerer (1893) -- The Filipovs (1894) -- Niagara power (1894) -- Effulgent glory (1894) -- Fire at the lab (1895) -- Martian fever (1895-96) -- High society (1894-97) -- Shadowgraphs (1896) -- Falls speech (1897) -- Luminaries (1896-98) -- Socerer's apprentice (1896-97) -- Vril power (1898) -- Waldorf-Astoria (1898) -- Colorado Springs (1899) -- Contact (1899) -- Thor's emissary (1899) -- The hero's return (1900) -- The house of Morgan (1901) -- World telegraphy center (1901) -- Clash of the Titans (1901) -- The passing of the torch (1902) -- Wardenclyffe (1902-1903) -- The web (1903-1904) -- Dissolution (1904-1906) -- The child of his dreams (1907-1908) -- Bladeless turbines (1909-10) -- The Hammond connection (1909-13) -- J.P. Morgan Jr. (1912-14) -- Fifth column (1914-16) -- The invisible audience (1915-21) -- Transmutation (1918-21) -- The roaring twenties (1918-27) -- Faster than the speed of light (1927-40) -- Living on credit (1925-40) -- Loose ends (1931-43) -- The FBI and the Tesla papers (1943-56) -- The wizard's legacy

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, Wizard is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Wizard reveals the details of Tesla's struggles with competing contemporary inventors such as Edison, Steinmetz, and Marconi and with financial giants such as J.P. Morgan and John Jacob Astor as they were underwriting his laboratory work. (Tesla even worked for the Edison Company for several years.). Wizard brings to the fore an extraordinary man and recreates his life during one of the most exciting and innovative eras in America's history. The book is illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and drawings, including the July 20, 1931, Time magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor's career