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PublisherPrentice Hall PTR
ISBN-100139068597
ISBN-139780139068591
eBay Product ID (ePID)4981436
Product Key Features
Book TitleTesla : Man Out of Time
Publication Year1981
TopicScience & Technology
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorMargaret Cheney
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN82-012040
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal621.3/092 B
SynopsisIn 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.
LC Classification NumberTK140.T4
