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Tesla : all my dreams are true / Michael Almereyda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almereyda, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electrical engineers--United States--Biography.
- Electrical engineers.
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
- Tesla, Nikola.
- Tesla (Motion picture).
- Almereyda, Michael.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : OR Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations--vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art--enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Love Interest
- 2. The Cat Talked
- 3. Broadview Terrace
- 4. An Actor Prepares
- 5. Tesla Meets Mandrake
- 6. Tesla And Twain
- 7. Happy Birthday, Orson
- 8. Plenty of Pie!
- 9. Kiss Me Before You Wake Up
- 10. An Incomplete Person
- 11. Conversation in the Lobby: World Wireless Energy
- 12. The Secret of Nikola Tesla
- 13. Mystification
- 14. Mr. Tomorrow
- 15. Morgan's Nose
- 16. Orbits
- 17. Namesake
- 18. Tesla Meets Frankenstein
- 19. Largesse
- 20. Death by Beam
- 21. An Empty Chair
- 22. Endpoint
- 23. Beyond The Mirror World
- 24. Poster Child
- 25. Unfinished Projects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowed Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1682192822
- 9781682192825
- OCLC:
- 1263864930
- Publisher Number:
- 99993259379
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