Tesla: inventor of the electrical age

Dinner at Delmonico's

An ideal childhood (1856-1878)

Dreaming of motors (1878-1882)

Learning by doing (1882-1886)

Mastering alternating current (1886-1888)

Selling the motor (1888-1889)

Searching for a new ideal (1889-1891)

A veritable magician (1891)

Taking the show to Europe (1891-1892)

Pushing alternating current in America (1892-1893)

Wireless lighting and the oscillator (1893-1894)

Efforts at promotion (1894-1895)

Looking for alternatives (1895-1898)

Stationary waves (1899-1900)

Wardenclyffe (1900-1901)

The dark tower (1901-1905)

Visionary to the end (1905-1943).