Nikola Tesla and the Taming of Electricity
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Croatia -- New horizons -- Edison -- War of the currents -- Going wireless -- Peculiarities -- Alternating current -- Master of lightning -- Wardenclyffe -- Setbacks -- Death ray -- Timeline -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Web sites -- Index.
Well-documented information about this inventor abounds in a readable volume. Aldrich covers Tesla s early life in Croatia, his academic brilliance and social awkwardness, his longterm battle with Thomas Edison over alternating current, his uneasy alliance with George Westinghouse, his chronic financial difficulties, and his personal idiosyncrasies. Photos and sidebars of explanations (not all clear) extend the text. Presents the life and accomplishments of the man who created hundreds of inventions without drawing them out, and is credited with becoming "the true father of the radio."
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PUBLISHED
Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 160 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
193179846X (lib. bdg.)
SUBJECTS
Tesla, Nikola, -- 1856-1943.
Electric engineers -- Biography.
Inventors -- Biography.