tesla yazarken biraz fazla özgüvenli bir dil kullanmış, ama kesinlikle yanlış bir şey yok. sadece ben onun yerinde olsaydım büyük ihtimal bu kitabı böyle yazmazdım.
tabi ki bu kitapta değerlendirmemiz gereken tesla'nın dili değil. onu da çok iyi biliyorum. icatları, düşündükleri, çalışmaları beni benden alan bir insan zaten. hayatı düşünerek geçmiş.
örnek aldığım, örnek alınması gereken insanlardan biri.

Teslas early life is quite compelling, he claims he saw images in front of him and had to conjure them out of being. His best comfort was to accept them and go through them, in this he claimed to travel and meet people through his visions. He was able to build and prototype inventions in his mind in such a way that he says his visions could prototype an invention so accurately that for 20 years he didn't imagine something that didn't work. Human hair and camphor gave him extreme discomfort, and everything he did had to be divisible by 3. He was consumed by superficial fear but of all things he loved books. A quirky individual to be sure.

In his prose it is clear that tesla was a remarkably well written and learned man. This is further illustrated by the list of books and authors he has claimed to read and the insane work schedule he had. The first half of this book describing his life is fascinating. I specifically like how he was crowned champion crow catcher in his first year of university.

Another part that stuck with me is his description of Paris versus America. He described Paris as beutiful artistic and fascinating wich is a spark contrast to  America wich he described as machined and unattractive. America was sold to his as the land of dreams and delightful adventures, but his veiw was the opposite.

Tesla was also a dreamer, his goal was to electrify the atmosphere to provide wireless power transmission to all devices. He also outlines how this device could be used for sending cheques across the globe, transmitting music across the globe, and connecting all people to communications technology. These ideas where as he stated ahead of his own time, so much of teslas dreams where unfortunately never realized. Mankind was truly robbed of this man's genius, they simply where not ready for him.

Kitap okuyan bir insana verilecek en güzel hediye nedir? Tabii ki de sıkı bir kitap. Sevdiğim bir arkadaşımın hediyesi olan 'İcatlarım' kitabını büyük bir keyifle, tek solukta okudum. Tesla hakkında bilmediğim birkaç güzel anekdot ve bilgiye ulaştım. Tarif ettiği kablosuz iletişim ağı yani internet ve kablosuz enerji iletimi, bugünlerde bile uç bir teknolojiyken, Tesla'nın tüm bunları 1800lerin sonunda düşünüp üstünde çalışmış olması da zamanının çok çok ilerisinde bir insan olduğunu fazlasıyla gösteriyor.

I decided to flip through the pages of My Inventions after my dad enthusiastically described how engineers at McMaster university, following Tesla’s principles, had powered a fan using electricity that was transmitted wirelessly from one mini tower to another.

Lacking a technical background, I didn’t think the book would capture my interest; but I was hooked from the very first page. Not only does Tesla share some unique observations of the world and his mind, such as his self-preserving device and his ideas on the automatism of life, (which I’m still trying to wrap my head around), but many of his anecdotes cracked me up—harnessing the energy of June-bugs, the 5 men it took to place a light bulb, posing as Steve Brodie...and so many more.

I just wish he had elaborated on certain events!

For instance, I thought it interesting that he suddenly recovered from cholera after his dad promised to allow him to study engineering, or was it the peculiar bean that did the trick? And what bean was that?

I also wanted to know what led to his nervous breakdown. Was it the result of having the pursuit of his passion interrupted? And how did his friend assist him, I wondered, when Tesla wrote:
“Can anyone believe that so hopeless a physical wreck could ever be transformed into a man of astonishing strength and tenacity, able to work thirty-eight years almost without a day’s interruption, and find himself strong and fresh in body and mind? Such is my case. A powerful desire to live and continue the work and the assistance of a devoted friend and athlete accomplished the wonder.”

And why did he not provide more details on the never-completed “World System”? Did it simply not work? Was it too expensive? Or, as some sources suggest, did the financiers withhold their funds for the same reason they resisted his bladeless turbines? When they discovered that Tesla’s invention might not only transmit signals, sound, and images, but also electricity, did they not like the fact that it would render worthless the existing electrical infrastructure? And how would they meter electricity that was transmitted wirelessly?

So I’m left with the question, could Nikola Tesla have “wirelessly electrified the entire earth”? From what I’ve heard, it’s only a matter of time (and completing the Maxwell equations) before his dream is finally realized.

A fascinating read that leaves me wanting to know more.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a genius inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for designing of AC electricity supply system. He first caught my attention (of course as an engineer I had studied about the IS unit of the strength of a magnetic field named after him) in Nolan’s movie “the prestige” in which he was pictured as a kind of magician who could easily duplicate a cat or magically light wireless lamps. I wanted to know more about him and now reading his autobiography I find him as a naturally talented genius with a bit of vanity but otherwise brilliant.

In the book, he mostly talked about himself, his family and friends and generally more human topics than scientific ones. He manifested his early sparkles of innovation and described his incentives and aims. He also told us about some of his magnificent inventions in details. He had ideas about future, as well and predicted a good deal of occurrences meticulously.
He predicted a great scientific advance in which some of his inventions will be the basis: The Tesla Transformer, The Magnifying Transmitter, The Tesla Wireless System, The Terrestrial Stationary Waves which will result in many things he predicted amongst which are internet, wireless phones, GPS and many other phenomena so usual for us. He described his works too far ahead of time and thought that the world wasn’t ready for them.

He is the most important and effective inventor of the 20th century. He was also new-fashioned in many ways as he was anti-racist, vegetarian and …
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization, because few indeed, will admit the reality that God made man in His image in which case all earth men are alike. There is in fact but one race, of many colors. Christ is but one person, yet he is of all people, so why do some people think themselves better than some other people?”

От една "биография" трябва да се учи човек.

"... Страдах от същинска мания да завършвам всичко, каквото съм започнал и тя често ме вкарваше взатруднения. Така веднъж, след като започнах да чета трудовете на Волтер, за мой ужас установих, че те преставляваха близо сто дебели тома, отпечатани с дребен шрифт, които това чудовище бе написало, докато пиело по седемдесет и две чаши чено кафе на ден. ..."

Това ще запомня - без четене на Волтер.

"A observação deficiente é meramente uma forma de ignorância e é responsável por muitas noções mórbidas e ideias tolas prevalentes"


Breve manuscrito onde podemos vislumbrar a mente de Tesla. Dos seus primeiros anos como inventor até ao seu reconhecimento público ( Bobina e Transformador Tesla, Transmissor Magnificador e escritos sobre teleautomação e redes sem fios que transformariam o mundo de uma maneira irreversível e exponencial). Neste livro, Tesla põe a nu as suas neuroses, obsessões e esgotamentos, agruras profissionais, mas, mais importante talvez, - lampejos de profundo entusiasmo, engenho, virtuosismo de imaginação, trabalho e realização técnica.
Inspira-nos a usarmos esta ferramenta chamada imaginação e a arriscar pensar, resolver, agir sobre problemas.

Peca por falta de representações esquemáticas das suas invenções, de modo a facilitar a compreensão do público leigo. Tal, poderia, no entanto, ser conseguido com um trabalho de edição posterior, (completado, quiçá, por uma uma biografia mais completa).

I took from this that by looking through the eyes of enough living and passed authors is how anyone can understand their world.

The true inventor of the 19th century, with a passion of harnessing free energy for the human world. One of the greatest free thinkers.

Tesla fascinates me. So far ahead of his time. Bookmarked several sections and want to listen to again sometime. Cool to hear his own account of his inventions. I wish he had been more business savvy because he was such a genius otherwise. He trusted people too much. Didn’t realize just how much he struggled with OCD. Brilliant, brilliant, man.

I didn't think it was possible for me to love Tesla more than I already had. After reading his thoughts in his own words, I feel that, in some way, I know him now and certainly love him all the more for every page.

My favorite part of the book was Tesla's ranting about the wireless. Its potential was so clear to him. Freeing ourselves from wires, and harnessing the waves in the air around us, would not only lead to advances in technology that were at that time unimaginable, but for Tesla, wireless meant that we could finally connect everyone in the world. According to Tesla, wires meant we could only connect to our small area (unless we went to great pains to bury wires under the ocean floor, which we did-- and still it had constraints), but wireless means we can connect to anyone, anywhere in the world. If we can connect so readily to other cultures, Tesla reasoned, then we can understand other cultures. Once we understand and stop subscribing to ingroup and outgroup thinking, we can finally attain peace. Tesla suggested, as do many people in our current day, that when anyone in any part of the country can connect to any other part of the country and gain knowledge from that, the weakest groups will gain power and not be dependent on the powerful as much as they are now. He saw not only an end to wires but an end to ignorance and war.

In reading this, I felt as if I really understood the mind of Tesla. What it all boiled down to was always solving the distance problem. What I mean by that is that in figuring out AC (to replace DC) and in trying to figure out wireless, Tesla overcame the constraints caused by physical wires that are held in place, constrained to one physical area. In the case of DC (Edison, in his limited vision, was a fan of direct current) every house was required to have their own generator because DC will only travel so far. When AC came along, cities could have one generator that supplies the multitudes of houses (like we have now in our society). Wires, whether vertical or buried under ground, are limited to where the physical wires are. With wireless, the signal can be sent to far more tethering spots (towers or even smartphones and tablets in every home!). In each case, the signal can reach far beyond a wire, solving the distance problem.

Sadly, Tesla could not develop the wireless in the way he wanted to. It was too new of an idea and even the experts, according to Tesla, could not see its value. This caused him great anguish.

Other parts of the book were more amusing to me than profound. Early in the book I had to laugh hardily because I had just finished reading another author's take on his nervous breakdown and then I read Tesla's own take on it. It seems to me that inventing is similar to childbirth not only in that the inventor brings something new into the world, but also because there can be amnesia for the pain of the birthing process. It is often said, and I believe it to be true, that many women only have more than one child because they selectively forget the negative aspects of pregnancy and child birth and magnify their memories of the positive aspects.

After reading Tesla's description of his life, I was dumbfounded. The reality is that Tesla had a mental breakdown following his work on attempting to invent the wireless telephone*, in the 1800s no less. The breakdown was so severe, Tesla was in bed for months and suffered complete amnesia for the entirety of his past, including the knowledge of how to invent anything at all. Yet looking back in his autobiography, Tesla wrote that even though many people who work have to sacrifice their life-energy, he had never had to make such sacrifices, stating, "On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts."

It seems his amnesia was not just limited to those months in bed. He had selective amnesia for what seems to be the remainder of his life. He loved his inventions, and the inventing process, so much that he magnified the positive aspects, feeling a swelling of involuntary love, while seeming to completely forget the absolute torment it caused him at times.

I had heard about Tesla's visions and delusions but hadn't appreciated them fully until hearing his own take. He said the people he imagined were as real to him as any real person. People portray him as non-social. It seems he was very social, with the envisioned people who visited him regularly. He made it extremely clear though, that he understood full well that the visions of people and things were not real. He held disdain for those who believed in the paranormal, which I found so interesting considering the fact that he had constant visions. I am still trying to understand how he could have such a firm grip on reality. One funny story he related about psychics goes as follows. Men in powerful positions from the ford company came to visit him. They told him how impressed they were that everything he had predicted had come true. He was elated and wondered if they were there to talk about his inventions, invest in them, or even use his turbine engines in their cars. Alas, when asked how he could be of assistance, they said they were starting a psychological society that focused on psychic phenomenon and said he would be an extremely valuable asset to them. He said, "These gentlemen never knew how close they were to being fired out of my office!"

It seems as though he spent his life trying to control his visions. He said he controlled most visions but could never control the bright light and fire visions he had. Those sounded like seizures to me. He also said he could simply visualize equations. It seems far more than merely possible that Tesla had synesthesia. The neurons in brain seems to have been not only hyper connected, as is the case in synesthesia, but connected in such a way that it caused high output but then short circuiting, causing a seizure. How I wish his brain were around to study.

Tesla has always been an inspiration for me from my childhood, particularly after getting to know his discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field. I cannot describe my extreme delight out of performing his experiments at home. And I am so delighted to read this book, because it surprisingly made me have a more profound understanding of his life and how he faced several breakdowns just because he was so ahead of his time.

"War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong. "