My inventions

the autobiography of Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla: My inventions (1999, Barnes & Noble)

496 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 1999 by Barnes & Noble.

ISBN:
978-0-7607-0085-3
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From the Publisher My Inventions has been the primary source for all Tesla biographers. Editor Ben Johnston has a 16 page introduction that traces Tesla's career through a maze of sensationalism and controversy.

From the Back Cover The reclusive, brilliant engineer who: Invented the Niagra power system that made Edison's obsolete Sold Westinghouse 40 patents that broke a General Electric monopoly Discovered the radio methods that Marconi converted into a fortune Built a radio-guided torpedo before Ford ended the horse-and-buggy era Tried, with J.P. Morgan's backing, to change the earths electric charge! Joined giants Ampere, Watt, and Volta in history's most select circle when the world scientists named a new unit of magnetism and Tesla.

15 editions

Subjects

  • Tesla, Nikola, -- 1856-1943
  • Electric engineering -- History
  • Radio -- History
  • Inventors -- United States -- Biography
  • Inventions -- United States