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Inez Hunt and Wanetta W. Draper, Lightning in His Hand: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla (1964), is a complete, authoritative, nontechnical biography. Nikola Tesla Museum, Nikola Tesla 1856–1943: Lectures, Patents, Articles (1956), contains authentic reprints, diagrams, lectures, and considerable detailed information. Nikola Tesla, Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1904), furnishes Tesla’s own story of his Colorado experiments.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Nikola Tesla - The Creator of the Electric Age (PDF). | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Wizard Who Electrified the World. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 03, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Nikola Tesla. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC Listen - Nikola Tesla the inventor. | Aug 23, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Nikola Tesla - The Creator of the Electric Age (PDF). | Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Added reference to the car company that bears his name, modernized spellings, enhanced captions. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Franklin Institute - Nikola Tesla. | Jun 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science History Institute - The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla�s �Death Ray�. | May 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Computer - Nikola Tesla � Complete Biography, History, and Inventions. | Apr 07, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 26, 2022 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Nikola Tesla. | Jan 11, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Biography of Nikola Tesla. | Jan 11, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Nikola Tesla Museum. | May 25, 2017 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Mar 20, 2017 | ||
| Added an image of Tesla in his laboratory in Colorado Springs. | Mar 20, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Energy.gov - Top 11 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla. | Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of the Nikola Tesla Museum. | Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer Hope - Biography of Nikola Tesla. | Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson MIT - Nikola Tesla. | Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Nikola Tesla: Biography, Inventions and Quotes. | Sep 19, 2016 | ||
| In the discussion of George Westinghouse's purchase of Tesla's patents, changed "1885" to "1888." | Jul 10, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Nikola Tesla Facts. | Dec 18, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Nikola Tesla. | Dec 18, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Nikola Tesla. | Dec 16, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Nikola Tesla. | Dec 16, 2012 | ||
| For the birth location, changed "Austria-Hungary" to "Austrian Empire." | Jun 19, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of Tesla Memorial Society of New York, United States. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of Tesla Memorial Society of New York, United States. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Did Nikola Tesla Change The Way We Use Energy? | Feb 10, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 05, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 08, 2006 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Dec 08, 2006 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 08, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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