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Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla

Name: Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
Brand: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
SKU: 9781612034041
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Contributors:

John J. O'Neill

Publisher:

Bottom of the Hill Publishing

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Science

Book Subcategory:

Science & Technology, Physics, Energy

Book Topic:

Electricity

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Release Date:

2012-01-12

ISBN 13:

9781612034041

Weight:

0.67 lbs

Size:

9.25 x 7.50 x 0.37 inches

Pages:

172

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Tesla created the modern era; he was unquestionably one of the world's greatest geniuses, but he leaves no offspring, no legatees of his brilliant mind, who might aid in administering that world; he created fortunes for multitudes of others but himself died penniless, spurning wealth that might be gained from his discoveries. Even as he walked among the teeming millions of New York he became a fabled individual who seemed to belong to the far-distant future or to have come to us from the mystical realm of the gods, for he seemed to be an admixture of a Jupiter or a Thor who hurled the shafts of lightning; an Ajax who defied the Jovian bolts; a Prometheus who transmuted energy into electricity to spread over the earth; an Aurora who would light the skies as a terrestrial electric lamp; a Mazda who created a sun in a tube; a Hercules who shook the earth with his mechanical vibrators; a Mercury who bridged the ambient realms of space with his wireless waves-and a Hermes who gave birth to an electrical soul in the earth that set it pulsating from pole to pole. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer best known for developing the modern alternating current electrical supply system. Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.

Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla

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