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The inventor of the modern age, in his own voice. In 1919, one of history's most brilliant minds sat down to tell his own story. My Inventions — first published as a six-part series in Electrical Experimenter magazine — is Nikola Tesla's personal account of his life and ideas. Tesla (1856–1943), the Serbian-American genius behind alternating current, recounts his extraordinary mental life: as a child he could visualize inventions in complete detail before ever building them, and he suffered vivid flashes of light that accompanied his ideas. He describes his brief, turbulent employment under Thomas Edison, his partnership with George Westinghouse, and the "War of the Currents" that electrified the world. He also writes about the Tesla coil, his dreams of wireless power transmission, and the unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower that consumed his fortune and his final decades. Candid about his eccentricities and his clashes with corporate interests, Tesla emerges as both a prophet of technology and a deeply human figure.
What makes this short book so compelling is that it is Tesla explaining himself, not a biographer explaining Tesla. You will hear how his mind actually worked: the ability to build a machine entirely in his imagination, test it there, and only then build it in metal. You will follow the decisive episodes of his career — the break with Edison, the bet on alternating current that made Westinghouse's system the backbone of the modern power grid, and the grand, doomed dream of transmitting power through the air itself. And you will meet the man behind the legend: funny, proud, obsessive, and painfully aware that the world adopted his inventions faster than it understood him.
Short, vivid, and unmistakably in Tesla's own voice, My Inventions is essential reading for science lovers, engineers, and anyone fascinated by the man who lit up the modern age. It is also the perfect starting point before tackling a full biography: read Tesla first, in his own words, and everything else about him will make more sense. Get the ebook edition here at a discount from Tellebook.
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