My Inventions & Other Essays (Heathen Edition)
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric and reclusive Serbian-American inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his lifelong feud with Thomas Edison, pioneering wireless technology, and his many contributions to the design of modern alternating current (AC) electricity. His autobiography My Inventions, originally serialized in six parts in the monthly tech magazine Electrical Experimenter in 1919, finds the famous inventor recalling his formative years and expounding on his major discoveries and inventions - including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmitter, and the Tesla coil - before ending with a rumination on the failure of his Wardenclyffe Tower, and eye-opening explanations of weather manipulation and (what a modern reader can only describe as) UFO technology! This volume also includes nine additional articles, six of which Tesla penned for EE that same year.
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the development of the alternating-current electrical system, which made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. His invention of the induction motor underlies the modern electrical power industry.
"Tesla really understood the interconnectivity of the universe." -Ethan Hawke
"Inspiration-that is what he gave to other inventors whose endeavors his life spanned, and that is what his work continues to give to technical specialists in these times." -Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time
"Today, we yet find that the writings of Tesla retain their undiminished power of inspirational endeavor to the reader." -Leland Anderson
"It is my opinion that he was incredibly ahead of his time." -Preston B. Nichols, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
"An eccentric genius who out-invented Edison and discovered radio before Marconi . . . Nikola Tesla may be one of the most important men of invention in our nation's history." -David J. Kent, Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity
"Were we to seize and to eliminate the results of Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle." -Bernard A. Behrend
"In almost every step of progress in electrical power engineering, as well as in radio, we can trace the spark of thought back to Nikola Tesla. There are few indeed who in their lifetime see realization of such a far-flung imagination." -Ernst Alexanderson
"Nikola Tesla, in the opinion of authorities, today is conceded to be the greatest inventor of all times. Tesla has more original inventions to his credit than any other man in history. He is considered greater than Archimedes, Faraday, or Edison. His basic, as well as revolutionary, discoveries for sheer audacity have no equal in the annals of the world. His master mind is easily one of the seven wonders of the intellectual world." -Hugo Gernsback, Electrical Experimenter
