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Tesla for beginners / Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen ; illustrated by Owen Brozman ; foreword by Jane Alcorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutherland-Cohen, Robert I., author.
- Series:
- For beginners.
- For Beginners
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventors--Biography.
- Inventors.
- Scientists--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Danbury, Connecticut : For Beginners, 2016.
- Summary:
- The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist, ” Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams—or still await possible development. Tesla For Beginners examines the man behind the alternating current and wireless technologies who traveled from Serbia by steamship to arrive in the United States with only four cents in his pocket. It was in the early 1880s, at the tail end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution, that America beckoned him. Nikola Tesla—a poet of invention—left behind a vast and intriguing legacy. He was a scientist, physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and extensively published author who spent his last decades scraping for funding for celestial projects and living out his final days in penurious solitude with a pigeon.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 7, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781939994493
- 1939994497
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