SOURCE: "Nikola Tesla: Genius was Applicable to Him," in Radio's 100 Men of Science: Biographical Narratives of Pathfinders in Electronics and Television, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944, pp. 117-23.

In the following essay, Dunlap identifies Tesla as a pioneer of the wireless communication methods that made possible both radio and television.

Nikola Tesla, through his wide range of electrical experiments and discoveries, became one of the world's foremost electricians. His invention of the induction motor and the Tesla coil and his discovery of the rotary magnetic field principle won him widespread recognition as "the electrical wizard" of the nineties.

His father was a Greek clergyman and orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, was an inventor. Mathematics was Tesla's forte; theories and high-frequency currents his delights. Young Nikola's education began with one year in elementary school, four years of the lower Realschule at Gospic, Lika, and then a higher school at Carlstadt, Croatia...