John J. O'Neill's Prodigal Genius

John J. O'Neill's Prodigal Genius is a biography of Nikola Tesla. Along with Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney, it is considered the best such material on the man. I found what seems to be the entire text online last week, and I haven't been able to stop reading it since:

http://uncletaz.com/library/scimath/tesla/prodigal.html

Now, I'm thrilled whenever I find such a complete and valuable text available online for free. I think the ability to refer people to it and spread the work around is in the author's best interest, but perhaps not the publishers. So here's the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Prodigal-Genius-Life-Nikola-Tesla/dp/1596057130/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5691331-2818326?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175054104&sr=8-1

In fact I think the idea of buying the book along with Margaret Cheney's is fantastic. I've already got the latter and while it is a fantastic portal into the life of Tesla, O'Neill seems to get that much closer by being one of the rare few who can actually call themselves one of Tesla's friends.

Mark Twain is another of those who have had the pleasure of being able to call Nikola Tesla an actual friend. In fact it was Mark Twain's work that Tesla read as a kid when he was sick with cholera and malaria, that got him through the roughest spot and made him want to come over to America.