Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

The Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 0806519606) is a 1998 biography book by Marc Seifer detailing the life of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

. Tesla developed our entire Alternating Current system, which at the time was thought impossible, radio, robotics, and radar, though few people know about his experiences and life. Wizard is a biography of Tesla and his technology. The book is the first major biography of Tesla to look at papers of Tesla's in the Tesla archives in Yugoslavia as well as manuscripts in the United States. Seifer also filed freedom of information requests

Freedom of Information Act (United States)

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to get documents from the FBI and other United States government agencies.

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