Tesla: Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney
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Author: Margaret CheneyBrand: Baker and Taylor
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-02
ISBN: 0743215362
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Touchstone
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- ISBN13: 9780743215367
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A Fascinating Life Told in Rich Detail
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicola Tesla was a revolutionary inventor who gets little credit for his dramatic contributions to modern society. Tesla stood up to and won over Edison in the battle between direct current and alternating current which proved the practical choice. Tesla held the patents that first powered the Chicago World Exhibition and transformed Niagra Falls into energy to light Buffalo, NY. No one but Tesla knew when they threw the switch at Niagra that the new process would work at all. He held the patents for wireless communications before Marconi, used x-ray photography prior to Roentgen, and created the first prototypes of continuous cycle motors and transformers that are in common use today. He envisioned radio, television, and even defensive particle beam weapons before anyone else even thought they were remote possibilities.
Tesla's ideas go way beyond the technology of his time. Tesla had rare gifts to visualize, design, and test ideas in his mind, so when he tooled a device it wasn't a process of trial and error. His rare gift allowed him to envision ideas that challenge scientists today. But because he was always ahead of himself, Tesla didn't stay still long enough to see his ideas come into fruition for the last half of his life. We still wonder if it's possible, as he pondered, to send power wirelessly, to use standing waves in the earth and atmosphere to provide free power anywhere.
Margaret Cheney tells Tesla's life with a richness of detail that brings him into focus as a revolutionary thinker. Tesla's compulsive obsession with his ideas precluded romance and normalcy, but it set him apart as a figure who changed the world. A predominant figure in early 20th Century America, Tesla influenced the way we live today. You'll be enriched for learning about his fascinating life.
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