Wizard:

by Marc Seifer
Wizard:
Author: Marc Seifer
Publisher: Citadel
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0806535563
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“The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century…fascinating.”—Scientific American Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla’s creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls. This essential biography is illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including the July 20, 1931, Time magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor’s career. “A deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science--likely to become the definitive biography. Highly recommended.”--American Association for the Advancement of Science “Seifer's vivid, revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a principal architect of the modern age.” --Publishers Weekly Starred Review “[Wizard] brings the many complex facets of [Tesla's] personal and technical life together in to a cohesive whole....I highly recommend this biography of a great technologist.” --A.A. Mullin, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, COMPUTING REVIEWS “[Along with A Beautiful Mind] one of the five best biographies written on the brilliantly disturbed.”--WALL STREET JOURNAL “Wizard is a compelling tale presenting a teeming, vivid world of science, technology, culture and human lives.”-

Nikola Tesla

by Carol Dommermuth-Costa
Nikola Tesla
Author: Carol Dommermuth-Costa
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780822549208
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Recounts the life and accomplishments of the Croatian-born engineer who developed alternating-current technology and invented the radio

Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

by Iwan Rhys Morus
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1785785753
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'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - Nature Nikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the history of science. An electrical pioneer as influential in his own way as Thomas Edison, he embodied the aspirations and paradoxes of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. In an era that saw the spread of power networks and wireless telegraphy, the discovery of X-rays, and the birth of powered flight, Tesla made himself synonymous with the electrical future under construction but opinion was often divided as to whether he was a visionary, a charlatan, or a fool. Iwan Rhys Morus examines Tesla's life in the context of the extraordinary times in which he lived and worked, colourfully evoking an age in which anything seemed possible, from capturing the full energy of Niagara to communicating with Mars. Shattering the myth of the 'man out of time', Morus demonstrates that Tesla was in all ways a product of his era, and shows how the popular image of the inventor-as-maverick-outsider was deliberately crafted by Tesla - establishing an archetype that still resonates today.

The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works

by Nikola Tesla
The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works
Author: Nikola Tesla
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1645178900
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Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla’s autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works gives readers a compelling insight into the man whose ideas revolutionized the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, and who continues to be a source of inspiration for modern inventors. This volume includes Tesla’s autobiography My Inventions (1919), articles and diagrams that he published in scientific magazines—including “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” in which he discusses the potential of solar power—and Thomas Commerford Martin’s The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla. A scholarly introduction examines Tesla’s life and career, and the impact that he has had on generations of inventors up to the present day.

Nikola Tesla

by Michael Burgan
Nikola Tesla
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2009
Genre: Electrical engineers
ISBN: 0756540860
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A biography of Nikola Tesla, physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer.

Who Was Nikola Tesla?

by Jim Gigliotti
Who Was Nikola Tesla?
Author: Jim Gigliotti
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1524790133
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Get ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola Tesla--part creative genius, part mad scientist, and 100% innovator. When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn't have much money, but he did have a letter of introduction to renowned inventor Thomas Edison. The working relationship between the two men was short lived, though, and the two scientist-inventors became harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of all time, Nikola Tesla is celebrated for his experiments in electricity, X-rays, remote controls, and wireless communications. His invention of the Tesla coil was instrumental in the development of radio technology.

Electrical Wizard

by Elizabeth Rusch
Electrical Wizard
Author: Elizabeth Rusch
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763658553
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An introduction to the pioneering ideas of a leading contributor to modern electrical engineering includes coverage of such topics as his rivalry with Thomas Edison, his innovations in the field of alternating current and his history-changing role in the development of such inventions as remote controls, fluorescent lights and cell phones.

Tesla

by Michael Almereyda
Tesla
Author: Michael Almereyda
Publisher: OR Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781682192825
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Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations - vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.

Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

by Richard Munson
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Author: Richard Munson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393635457
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"[A] penetrating biography…Munson makes vivid the genius’s eventful life." —Barbara Kiser, Nature Nikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray weapons, and interstellar communication. His ideas have lived on to shape the modern economy, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind. Drawing on letters, technological notebooks, and other primary sources, Munson pieces together the magnificently bizarre personal life and mental habits of the enigmatic inventor whose most famous inventions were the product of a mind fueled by both the humanities and sciences—Tesla conceived the induction motor while walking through a park and reciting Goethe’s Faust. Clear, authoritative, and highly readable, Tesla takes into account all the phases of Tesla’s remarkable life and career.