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Este es el tercer libro que publica Turner sobre la figura de Nikola Tesla y que complementa las dos ediciones Nikola Tesla. El genio al que le robaron la luz de Margaret Cheney (Turner, 2010) Yo y la energía, de Nikola Tesla (Turner, 2011) • Una selección de cartas y artículos, algunos de ellos inéditos, escritos por el propio Tesla que nos ofrecen una mirada más personal sobre el personaje, mostrándonos al Tesla más “humano” y menos “científico” que en los dos libros anteriores. • Esta edición cuenta con una cronología completa, año, por año de la vida del gran genio, y un quién es quién de los personajes contemporáneos a pequeñas biografías de los empresarios, amigos y conocidos que se cruzaron en la vida del inventor, Mark Twain, J.P. Morgan, Westinghouse, Edison, etc. • Como curiosidad para los más teslianos, en el libro se incluye la última nota escrita por Tesla que se encontró en su mesilla tras su muerte. Nikola Tesla ha pasado a la historia como el inventor de la corriente alterna, el perdedor de la “guerra de las corrientes” contra Edison, el paradigma del genio incomprendido al que la historia hace justicia siglos después. Hoy disfruta de una segunda juventud, con el interés de las generaciones más jóvenes y con la actualidad de muchas de sus teorías visionarias sobre la comunicación inalámbrica y el uso responsable de la energía.
242 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2012
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Nikola Tesla
365 books1,441 followersNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
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February 8, 2021
Quizá una de las lecturas más decepcionantes que haré éste año.
Y no es que éste mal el libro en ningún sentido, es solamente que me cree expectativas que no se cumplieron. Podría decir que yo mismo me decepcioné al creer que en las cartas que se recopilan en éste libro habría algo interesante, algo más personal, algo poco conocido acerca de Tesla. Pero no, son simples cartas con referencias inconexas y uno que otro dato importante sobre su trayectoria.
La introducción y la linea del tiempo al final del libro son lo mejor que pude rescatar. Lamentablemente eso sólo ocupará un 5% o máximo 10% de todo el libro.
Solamente que seas muy fanático, o que ya hayas leído todas las biografías de Tesla y no te quede nada más por leer, te recomendaría éste libro. Sino, mejor buscar alguna otra cosa para leer.
Y no es que éste mal el libro en ningún sentido, es solamente que me cree expectativas que no se cumplieron. Podría decir que yo mismo me decepcioné al creer que en las cartas que se recopilan en éste libro habría algo interesante, algo más personal, algo poco conocido acerca de Tesla. Pero no, son simples cartas con referencias inconexas y uno que otro dato importante sobre su trayectoria.
La introducción y la linea del tiempo al final del libro son lo mejor que pude rescatar. Lamentablemente eso sólo ocupará un 5% o máximo 10% de todo el libro.
Solamente que seas muy fanático, o que ya hayas leído todas las biografías de Tesla y no te quede nada más por leer, te recomendaría éste libro. Sino, mejor buscar alguna otra cosa para leer.
January 19, 2013
Ideal para complementar la lectura de su biografía. El Tesla humano. Muy recomendable para los que creen en el Tesla de la energía libre y los extraterrestres.
January 4, 2013
Ideal para completar la lectura de 'Nikola Tesla. El genio al que le robaron la luz' (Margaret Cheney) y 'Yo y la energía'.
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