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Nikola Tesla: My inventions (2008, Stefan University Press)

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2008 by Stefan University Press.

ISBN:
978-1-889545-85-1
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OCLC Number:
241304623

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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.

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Subjects

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