Margaret Cheney

Selected Works

Science / Invention
Tesla - Man Out of Time
Life of the 20th century's most brilliant inventor/scientist. Margaret Cheney is the only American author to have been awarded the Tesla Gold Medal of the Tesla Institute, the Tesla Museum, and the Serbian Academy of Science - in recognition of her classic biography, Tesla - Man Out of Time.
Tesla - Master of Lightning
Years in the making, this definitive biography presents important new materials: archival documents and photographs from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, and excerpts from Tesla's Biography.
Music
Midnight at Mabel's - The Mabel Mercer Story
The fascinating story of the ultimate cabaret singer's rise to stardom.
Crime
Why: The Serial Killer in America
Edmund Kemper's madness reveals the elements that serial killers have in common.
Environmental
Meanwhile Farm
Margaret and her friend were ready for Meanwhile, but not quite prepared for it...

Tesla - Master of Lighting

Tesla - Master of Lighting
This is the story of a genius--the enigmatic and dramatic Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)--and his vast contributions to science. While Thomas Edison was thrilling engineers with development of the direct current motor, Tesla had already devised the far superior AC model which quickly became the worldwide industry standard. Tesla then set out to best himself by attempting large scale transfers of wireless electricity.
Tracing his life from its humble beginnings in Croatia, "Tesla - Master of Lightning" details his dramatic experiments with high voltages in New York and Colorado laboratories, his invention of radio, and his ground-breaking work in many other fields of science, including the fundamentals of computer and missile technology.
Many sidebars and 250 rare black-and-white images create an invaluable resource. Hailed by critics as the definitive work on Tesla.

Years in the making, this definitive biography presents important new materials: archival documents and photographs from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, excerpts from Tesla's Biography.

Reader's Review, Amazon:
Five Stars

"How could Margaret Cheney (Tesla: Man Out of Time) and Robert Uth (Tesla: Master Of Lighting) improve upon their past individual works (a book and documentary video, respectively)? By combining their efforts to produce this wonderful book, that's how. The informative text is interspersed with 250 b&w and duotone images that show Tesla and the era in which he excelled. Also included are 36 sidebars that explain some of the technical aspects of Teslas's works. After reading several other works on Tesla, I thought I knew it all. I'm happy to say that this book proved me wrong. Not to be missed by true Tesla fans."