Published by cartoon books, columbus, oh 2012 isbn 10. Nikola tesla was a serbianamerican inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. Nikola tesla came to the united states in 1884 and worked for thomas edison, becoming edisons rival because edison only believed in the merchandising of inferior dc electric power. The autobiography of nikola tesla book online at best prices in india on. Two of his creations, the induction motor and the tesla coil, underpin the technology of the modern world. My inventions is teslas autobiography, with focus on his major discoveries and innovations, including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmitter, and the tesla coil. The following first appeared as the introduction to the 2011 edition of nikola teslas my inventions, from penguin classics. Edison, tesla, westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world by jill jonnes very good, i highly recommended it. Tesla was 63 years old when this text was first published in the electrical experimenter magazine in 1919. My inventions is tesla s autobiography, with focus on his major discoveries and innovations, including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmitter, and the tesla coil. This book is one of the few that puts the relationship of edison and tesla into perspective. My early life how tesla conceived the rotary magnetic field the discovery of the tesla coil and transformer, gramme dynamo, etc.
My inventions is tesla s autobiography, with meditations on his major discoveries and innovations, including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmitter, and the tesla coil. This is not nikola tesla s my inventions, published in the electrical experimenter magazine, februaryjune and october, 1919 issues. Listening to nikola teslas true accounts of his life, ideas and inventions by this narrator was wonderful. The book touches on his life and career, his first inventions, discovering the magnetic field, tesla coil and transformer and the manifying transmitter. Over a hundred years ago, nikola tesla paved the way for modern technology. Famous for the radio, robotics, and wireless energy, tesla quickly gained international notoriety for his pioneering inventions as much for his eccentric life. A tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by nikola tesla around 1891. Originally published in 1919 in electrical experimenter magazine, here are nikola teslas reflections on his early years and work. Editor ben johnston has a 16 page introduction that traces tesla s career through a maze of sensationalism and controversy.
The autobiography of nikola tesla, you can read or download in pdf, epub or mobi. I discovered that tesla developed several of the most important technologies we use today. It had to be done, but when i laid aside the last book i was very glad, and said. Editor ben johnston has a 16 page introduction that traces teslas career through a maze of sensationalism and controversy. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He remained unmarried and claimed that his chastity was helpful to his scientific abilities. This important title is the autobiography of nikola tesla.
It is the most important product of his creative brain. Nikola tesla was born in 1856 in smiljan, croatia, then part of the austrohungarian empire. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that nikola tesla had written for electrical experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old. Nikola tesla 1856 1943 was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. Book overview an unabridged edition with all chapters and any footnotes to include. His father was a priest in the serbian orthodox church and his mother managed the familys farm.
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Invented the niagara power system that made edisons system obsolete sold westinghouse forty patents that broke the general electric monopoly discovered the radio methods that marconi converted into a fortune built a radioguided torpedo before ford ended the horseandbuggy era. We are the premier destination for all things tesla. Nikola tesla was a scientist whose inventions include the tesla coil, alternatingcurrent ac electricity, and the discovery of the rotating magnetic field. The man was a genius, but too much of the book was spent telling of hie. Tesla was famous for working hard and throwing himself into his work. First published in 1919 in the electrical experimenter magazine table of contents i. My inventions nikola teslas autobiography at the age of 63 tesla tells the story of his creative life.
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