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Books : Tesla: Man Out of TimeIn association with Amazon.comby: Margaret Cheney  List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 621.3092 EAN: 9780743215367 ISBN: 0743215362 Label: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: October 02, 2001 Publisher: Touchstone Studio: Touchstone Sales Rank: 2642 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties. From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent biography!After reading this book, I truly feel like I have gotten to know Tesla on a personal level. I feel the author does a superb job of conveying Tesla's personal side, as well as his many unbelievable professional achievements. The author combines many stories of his personal life with how these led to his brilliant inventions and does it in such a way that I could not help but to admire Tesla's unyielding devotion to his work. Few people are as committed to anything as this great man was! Although ... Read More Rating: - Good history of TeslaFound this to be an excellent review of his life, and what he had gone through. The book is very readable, and does not put you to sleep like others. It does not go into details on his inventions, but does mention many of them, and the battles he had to go through with others at that time, and how most of his work was ahead of his time, and disregarded at that time. Well worth the price. Rating:  - Interesting depiction of Tesla's Life, yet not fully satifyingCheney provides a lot of in depth information about Tesla's personal life, which at times is interesting. She refers often to his personal letters, which is information that is often hard to find in other biographies. However, there are a lot of lackings in the book as well. First, for anyone with a scientific or engineering background it is unsatisfying. Cheney's reiteration of Tesla's language when referring to his inventions is often archaic and unclear. I'm not sure her educational background, ... Read More Rating: - Electrifying Read!For some odd reason, there are not very many books out there on Tesla. This one is all it takes. The way he could visualize an invention with such focus that he could even make changes to it based on how he saw it operating in his mind, without ever fabricating an actual model, was pretty wild. Some of the concepts he was working on almost 100 years ago still cannot be duplicated. Too bad he couldn't channel some of that genius toward his finances. The book has a good mix of ... Read More Rating: - Absolutely mind-bogglingI found this book to be absolutely mind-boggling. It is incredible that one man could be a pioneer in so many separate fields of technology. Moreover, it is incredible that one man can be traced back to be the originator of practically all of our global power and information infrastrucure- yet he benefitted so little for it in terms of either credit or wealth. Nikola Tesla was the single genius behind the the entire modern polyphase and single phase system for generating, transmitting, and utilizing ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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