Tesla: Inventor of the Modern - Hardcover

Munson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393635449 ISBN 13: 9780393635447

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2018

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TeslaWhen his first breakthrough alternating current, the basis of the electric grid pitted him against Thomas Edison s direct-current empire, Tesla s superior technology prevailed. Unfortunately, he had little business sense and could not capitalize on this success. His most advanced ideas went unrecognized for decades: forty years in the case of the radio patent, longer still for his ideas on laser beam technology. Although penniless during his later years, he never stopped imagining. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray weapons, and interstellar communications. His ideas have lived on to shape the modern economy.FaustTesla worked tirelessly to offer electric power to the world, to introduce automatons that would reduce life s drudgery, and to develop machines that might one day abolish war. His story is a reminder that technology can transcend the marketplace and that profit is not the only motivation for invention. This clear, authoritative, and highly readable biography takes account of all phases of Tesla s remarkable life.

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Richard Munson is an author and clean-energy advocate. His previous books include Tesla: Inventor of the Modern.

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Though Tesla's inventions transformed our world, his true originality is shown in the visionary ambitions he failed to achieve.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393635449
• ISBN 13: 9780393635447
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
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