![]() Other 19th-century inventions have evolved, as Otto Benz's internal combustion engine has done, so much that the inventors would probably no longer recognize them as their work or are in the process of being supplanted by newer technologies, as Thomas Edison's incandescent bulb is being replaced by more-efficient fluorescent lighting. Tesla's inventions, on the other hand, have about them the timelessness of a perfection not subject to improvement. ![]() ![]() The prejudices that made Tesla's life exciting and difficult cannot be separated from his time, a time already in the process of being obscured by a patina of quaintness. Timelessness, of course, can only pertain to a person's work and not to his life. Margaret Cheney's biography of Nikola Tesla is subtitled Man Out of Time. ![]() Tesla: Man Out of Time, b y Margaret Cheney, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981, 320 pp., $16.95 ![]()
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