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Written by Nikola Tesla at the age of sixty-three, this autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead, a man certainly possessed of genius and one who some consider the most important man of the twentieth century.
My Inventions is a firsthand account not only of the art and science behind the conception, execution, and reception of Tesla's most famous inventions but of his early life and first creative efforts as well.

88 pages, Paperback

First published May 1,1935

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88 pages, Paperback
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May 17, 2006 by Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
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9781599869940
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1599869942
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English
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.

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Vasco888888
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March 26,2025
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Ще один, дуже простий, доказ того, що видатними людьми є саме ті, хто не вкладається у визначення «нормальних» людей. Це ж ясно, як божий день.

Що ж до видання, то мене здивувала легкість, з якою упорядники подали оригінальну передмову до статей Тесли наприкінці книжки, віддавши перші сторінки куди менш влучній перемові від Дереша. Натомість, ніде, ні на початку, ні в кінці я не знайшла дати публікації статей, що були б страшенно доречні. Деякі думки Тесли прямо прогнозують майбутнє, натомість читач змушений здогадуватися, в якому році вони були висловлені, і скільки часу минуло між виданням кожної статті (у даному виданні — розділу). Зауваження до кількох одруків на зразок м замість км чи стилю на цьому фоні не варті навіть озвучування.
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Lorenzo
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March 26,2025
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Umm...I think I'm in LOVE with a dead guy! Seriously, Nikola Tesla is a pure genius and his intelligence far surpasses that of Einstein.

I wish he would have written a book earlier on and since this was written in his late sixties and is very short, readers are left wanting more. Among many other astounding inventions, including building an AC motor, he came up with the concept of wireless communication in the 1890's!!!

I was heartbroken when I read he died alone in a hotel room in poverty due to crooks like Edison and Westinghouse. Great read! I recommend it to anyone.
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LPbomb
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Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him. Teach a man to read, and he will never know a day of boredom in his life. Make a man a workaholic genius, and he will invent.

The man foresaw the WWW.
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STEREOo
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Autobiografia, non so quanto volutamente ingenua, di una dei piu' grandi cervelli scientifici. Scritto per essere pubblicato a puntate su una rivista, non e' sicuramente un'opera di grande spessore letterario ma ha il merito di far intuire i meandri di una mente sicuramente originale. Tra aneddoti piu' o meno curiosamente simpatici e brevi descrizioni tecniche, emerge infatti una mente per molti versi disturbata ma di potenza unica.
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MaryMcKaylaMcCan
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March 26,2025
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Nikola Tesla is a pure genius and his intelligence far surpasses that of Einstein.

He traveled to America to make the world a better place, but America always makes sure to grind down anyone that cares for the betterment of humanity.
He wanted to make free wireless electricity for the whole world, designed a laser powerful enough to destroy anything (he destroyed his design because he didn't believe humans could use it wisely), he game up with a lot of war patents that belong to the US today, came up for the idea of a phone in the early 1900's, automaton, the X-ray, the radio, the remote control, the induction motor, the light bulb ...

In 1884, Tesla was hired by Thomas Edison and was told that "there was $50,000 in it for him" if he could redesign Edison's inefficient motor and generators. When Tesla did so, Edison laughed and said, "Tesla, you don't understand our American sense of humour".

so schools teaches us shit,Tesla was a great man deserves more praise than he gets. Edison was just a greedy business man, and a great douche.

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KaeriArt
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March 26,2025
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What a strange, wonderful man.
This is a short reading in which one of the most interesting minds explains his version of what was his life and dreams.

I got interested into his personality after going through Didier de Cauwelaert dictionary of the impossible. His intelligence can be seen as mystical.
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mouse27
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March 26,2025
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An interesting man who had visions of worldwide, free, phone service. He invented so many things and was the worst businessman ever! He trusted people too much and they messed him over and stole his plans.
Such a great inventor.
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Graymare
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March 26,2025
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- the book is based on 5 articles Tesla published in a technical journal (Electrical Experimenter)
- 1856-1943, born in Croatia, in a Serbian family. His father was an orthodox priest with a military education, he was also a man of vast reading and a spirited writer. His mother was a highly energetic woman and kept together the household (she used to plant seeds, grow the plants and turn them to fabric and clothes and had built the furniture in the house) and she used to invent tools to make her work easier.
- as a kid, his father used to make him play mind exercises to improve his memory and reasoning
- during childhood he was stricken by repeated episodes of hallucinations, which made him feel anxious. His self taught remedy consisted on intense focus on a close by object and in constructing a scenario about travelling to unknown places. This helped later his imagination in visualizing an object from every angle and in shaping mentally an idea into a device. When coming up with an idea, he first imagined the construct and made mentally the first calibrations and optimizations until the model was flawless and only then he would start building it. He concluded that this mechanism never failed to bring optimal results
- his father had a vast library, but he would not let him read, he even confiscated the candles used for reading. This made young Tesla build fuses and cast his own candles
- originally he was left handed, but later ambidextrous
- after finishing highschool, he had contracted cholera and had to stay in bed for 9 months. The illness convinced his father to let him study engineering and not religion
- after university, he moved to Budapest for his first job in a telegraphy company. He helped launching and improving the telephone main station. Later on he moved to Paris to work in an electrical company where he had come up and implemented multiple solutions
- he moved to NY to work for Edison, but quits after a while
- in 1886 he perfected the voltaic arc, to be used at street lighting
- in 1887 he founded his own company, Electrical Company
- biggest inventions: Tesla coil, AC distribution system, the fluorescent bulb, radio, remote control (proved in 1889 on a model boat), electric motor (1930), wireless communications and wireless electricty
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