Nikola Tesla and the electrical future /
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science. Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that ma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Icon Books Ltd.,
2019
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| Summary: | A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science. Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. More than just a biography of Tesla, this book takes the inventor as its guide and follows him through the cut-throat entrepreneurial culture of late Victorian and Edwardian electrical invention |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 244 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 178578546X 9781785785467 |