My Inventions - Tesla, Nikola

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Résumé :
Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic and eccentric behavior. Tesla was never able to fit into the world that he found himself in. This autobiography, originally serialized in Electrical Experimenter, is an intensely fascinating glimpse into the mind of a genius, his inventions, and the magical world in which he lived.

Biographie:
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist whose work helped define the electrical age. Born in the Austrian Empire and educated in engineering and physics, Tesla emigrated to the United States and became one of the central figures in the development of alternating-current electrical systems. His inventions and theoretical work influenced electric power generation, transmission, motors, lighting, radio, wireless communication, and later thinking about energy and technology.Tesla's name remains closely associated with alternating current, the induction motor, high-voltage experimentation, the Tesla coil, wireless power, and the modern mythology of the visionary inventor. His public reputation has grown steadily as readers, engineers, historians of science, and technology enthusiasts have returned to his writings and patents. My Inventions offers one of the clearest first-person accounts of his imagination, working methods, ambitions, and extraordinary place in the history of invention....

Sommaire:
Nikola Tesla's My Inventions is the remarkable autobiographical account of one of the most original inventors in modern science and technology. In these vivid personal essays, Tesla recalls his childhood, education, mental habits, experiments, discoveries, and the development of the electrical ideas that helped transform the modern world. Written with unusual directness, the book reveals not only Tesla's technical imagination but also the intensity, discipline, eccentricity, and visionary confidence that shaped his career. Tesla writes about invention as both scientific labour and inner experience, describing the workings of memory, visualization, intuition, mechanical design, and experimental thought. His reflections on alternating current, electrical engineering, wireless power, motors, energy transmission, and the future of technology make the book an essential primary source for readers interested in invention, engineering history, scientific autobiography, electricity, industrial progress, and the lives of great innovators....