Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
$28.56
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2020
Summary
Nikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the history of science. An electrical pioneer as influential in his own way as Thomas Edison, he embodied the aspirations and paradoxes of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. In an era that saw the spread of power networks and wireless telegraphy, the discovery of X-rays, and the birth of powered flight, Tesla made himself synonymous with the electrical future under constructio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785786174 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785786172 |
| Author: | Iwan Rhys Morus |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Imprint: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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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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