American electrician and inventor, b.Austria-Hungary. He came to the US in 1884 and pioneered the area of High-tension electricity. Tesla made many inventions of great value to the development of radio transmission, wireless communication, altering-current transmission, free-energy devices, and anti-gravity. He reportedly had many mysterious devices locked away in vaults at the time of his death in 1943. He was known to have conducted experiments in time travel, ozone generators, thought machines, and death rays. (see Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia p.1256, also any of several good books on the subject.) Third Eye Correspondent Mysterious Black 11 (vol.3 #6:1-3)