Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
by Nigel Cawthorne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 078582944X
- ISBN 13
- 9780785829447
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Chartwell Books, New York, 2014. New. First Edition. Twelfth printing. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean, unmarred, illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated with drawings and historic photos. The dust jacket is unpriced as issued and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 192 pages including sources and citations, index. 7½ x 10½" tall.
Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current technology. Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was Tesla's AC generators that illuminated the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago; the first time that an event of such magnitude had ever taken place under artificial light. Today, all homes and electrical appliances run on Tesla's AC current.
Born in Croatia in 1856, Tesla spoke eight languages and almost single-handedly developed household electricity. During his life, he patented more than 700 inventions. He invented electrical generators, FM radio, remote control robots, spark plugs, and fluorescent lights. He had a photographic memory and did advanced calculus and physics equations in his head.
Nikola Tesla was the ultimate mad scientist. Like many other geniuses throughout history, Tesla was wildly eccentric. He was prone to nervous breakdowns, reported receiving odd visions in the middle of the night, spoke to pigeons, and occasionally thought he was receiving electromagnetic signals from Mars. If he'd lived today, he'd likely be diagnosed with an obsessive-compulsive disorder: he hated round objects and disliked numbers that weren't divisible by three.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4409
- Title
- Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
- Author
- Nigel Cawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- ISBN 10
- 078582944X
- ISBN 13
- 9780785829447
- Publisher
- Chartwell Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 192
- Size
- 7.5 x 10.5
- Keywords
- inventor, electricity, Edison, tesla, scientist
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