A fascinating insight into an extraordinary mind and an age when scientists were lauded as heroes. Tesla recalls his earliest inventions (such as a delightfully bizarre motor powered by live beetles), waxes lyrical on the 'exquisite enjoyment' of invention, tells how he was inspired to create his revolutionary AC induction motor by a passage from Goethe's Faust, and dreams in 1916 of creating a superweapon so terrible that it would immediately end the carnage of the first world war. What Hunt rightly describes as the 'beautiful and strange' essays in this collection were written between 18. Nikola Tesla was a genius polymath, inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Later, in the late 1800s, Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla pioneered. He pioneered alternating current power transmission and, as the novelist Samantha Hunt says in her wonderfully partisan and illuminating introduction, it was Tesla not Marconi who invented radio. In 1808, Humphry Davy is credited with the invention of the first effective. His remarkable ability to visualise inventions soon made him famous. The My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Born in Croatia in 1856, he emigrated to the United States in his 20s. My Inventions is full of fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories. A t the beginning of the 20th century, Tesla was for most Americans the embodiment of the inventor as genius.

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