My Inventions

The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

Paperback, 88 pages

English language

Published May 17, 2006 by Filiquarian Publishing, LLC..

ISBN:
978-1-59986-994-0
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From the Publisher My Inventions has been the primary source for all Tesla biographers. Editor Ben Johnston has a 16 page introduction that traces Tesla's career through a maze of sensationalism and controversy.

From the Back Cover The reclusive, brilliant engineer who: Invented the Niagra power system that made Edison's obsolete Sold Westinghouse 40 patents that broke a General Electric monopoly Discovered the radio methods that Marconi converted into a fortune Built a radio-guided torpedo before Ford ended the horse-and-buggy era Tried, with J.P. Morgan's backing, to change the earths electric charge! Joined giants Ampere, Watt, and Volta in history's most select circle when the world scientists named a new unit of magnetism and Tesla.

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This book was great. Tesla talks about his inventions a bit, but he mostly tells some whacky stories from his childhood as well as anecdotes from his quite colorful life. He had some really interesting ideas about himself, life, and technology. I'm not sure I disagree with all of them either. Maybe we are all just automaton following a very complex set of rules. He's not the only super intelligent person to believe this. Stephen Wolfram (the guy behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica) wrote a tome on the subject.

Tesla predicted a lot of things about our current technology and the implications of worldwide near-instant communication; it almost makes me wonder if his more implausible sounding ideas actually have merit?

Maybe there is some form of the internet that can terraform, who am I to say?

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Subjects

  • Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism
  • Historical - General
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Scientists - Inventors
  • Magnetism