Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
$39.08
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2019
Summary
Nikola 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.Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785785467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178578546X |
| Author: | Iwan Rhys Morus |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Imprint: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 134mm x 24mm |
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Superb * Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology magazine *[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures…and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars. – NatureThere have been other Tesla biographies, but this is the one I have been waiting for … Tesla, he shows us, was - like his one-time boss and rival Thomas Edison - inventing nothing less than the electrified future. – Philip Ball, author of Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the UnseenClear and engaging … a pleasure to read * Physics Today *
About The Author
Iwan Rhys Morus
Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and completed his doctorate there in the history and philosophy of science. He has published widely on the history of science. Recent publications include Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2017) and the Oxford Illustrated History of Science.
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