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Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research
History is written by the victors. But that is no comfort to those crossed out by the editor’s pen. For years, science textbooks equated electricity and light with one man, Thomas Edison, while the genius whose pioneering electrical technologies truly power the modern world languished as a minor note in scientific history.
Before the turn of the 20th century, electricity remained a mere scientific curiosity. Nikola Tesla, arguably more than anyone else, changed that. But Nikola’s pioneering research in electricity represents only a portion of the scientific and technical innovations that elevated him to science godhood.
Tesla not only expanded and revolutionized the work of his predecessors, he also leapfrogged ahead of his contemporaries to the next step.
Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research has three parts: background history around the time Tesla lived; Tesla’s autobiography; and Tesla’s major research programs explained in simple words.
Before the turn of the 20th century, electricity remained a mere scientific curiosity. Nikola Tesla, arguably more than anyone else, changed that. But Nikola’s pioneering research in electricity represents only a portion of the scientific and technical innovations that elevated him to science godhood.
Tesla not only expanded and revolutionized the work of his predecessors, he also leapfrogged ahead of his contemporaries to the next step.
Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research has three parts: background history around the time Tesla lived; Tesla’s autobiography; and Tesla’s major research programs explained in simple words.
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First published July 1, 2014
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Nikola Tesla
361 books1,429 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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July 23, 2021
Muy buen libro. No es técnico. Fácil de leer pero no aprenderán demasiado. No es para enseñar. Mas bien es para lamentar como el egoísmo humano logró y lograr retrasar el avance de la humanidad por centurias. Vale la pena leerlo. Lo recomiendo.
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June 14, 2023
Maravilloso libro, su historia de vida es impresionante, un ejemplo a seguir.
No estoy interesada en la energía eléctrica por eso la última parte del libro me costó bastante pero aún así ha sido muy interesante.
No estoy interesada en la energía eléctrica por eso la última parte del libro me costó bastante pero aún así ha sido muy interesante.
February 26, 2019
Für einen groben Überblick ganz OK. Es werden viele technische Details angeschnitten, dies mag vielen genügen, macht ein nachvollziehen für mich jedoch nicht möglich. Was jetzt Autobiografie und was nachträglicher Kommentar ist war mir zu intransparent. Von Ergänzungen zu autobiografischen Inhalten verspreche ich mir, dass diese den originales Inhalt erläutern und besser verständlich machen und nicht weiter zur Verwirrung beitragen.
Angenehm ist die geringe Seitenzahl (254 zzgl. Anhang mit kommentierten Fotos) was ein lesen zwischendurch ermöglicht.
Werde bei Gelegenheit nochmal ein anderes Werk lesen in der Hoffnung noch mehr über Teslas Arbeit zu erfahren.
Angenehm ist die geringe Seitenzahl (254 zzgl. Anhang mit kommentierten Fotos) was ein lesen zwischendurch ermöglicht.
Werde bei Gelegenheit nochmal ein anderes Werk lesen in der Hoffnung noch mehr über Teslas Arbeit zu erfahren.
November 12, 2015
Vynálezce, vizionář a extrémně nápaditý člověk, to ano, ale jako spisovatel mě příliš nenadchnul.
July 11, 2016
THİS İS SOOOOOOOOO SUPER
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