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Tesla
by: Margaret Cheney

Used Price: $3.00

Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780139068591
ISBN: 0139068597
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: 1982-06
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Sales Rank: 994402
Studio: Prentice Hall

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Portrays the trailblazing nineteenth-century inventor, the man who introduced the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science and who harnessed the alternating electrical current used today. Reprint.

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- 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 Tesla might arguably be described as a "mad genius" by some, there were so many other facets to his personality that I can only view him as an incredibly gifted, talented, and caring human being who marched to the beat of his own drum. He was truly a man ahead of his time!

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- Good history of Tesla
Found 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.

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- Interesting depiction of Tesla's Life, yet not fully satifying
Cheney 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, but she does not seem to be able to convey the engineering significance of his ideas. Secondly, she seems to almost be "defending" Tesla throughout the book. It doesn't necessarily detract from the book, but it comes across as desperate. Finally, it seems like the book's a little long. I feel like some information could be left behind. Nevertheless, for a compelte biography of all aspects of Tesla's life, this ... Read More

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- 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 his technical inventions as well as the personal aspects of this fascinating inventor's life.

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