While reading bits of information about the life of Nikola Tesla, I wish he got more credit than Thomas Edison. I remember when the latter, together with Albert Einstein, was featured in our English book in Grade Four. There's also an interesting historical animé series that features the greatest inventors in history; I don't recall Tesla being included. In fact, I only learned about him while reading my favorite genre. (You can read about him in almost every Steampunk book).

Harika , ilham verici bir otobiyografi. Alternatif akımın bulunmasına önemli katkıları olmuş, Hırvat asıllı bilim adamı Tesla, zamanla düşüncelerini beyninde gerçekleştirdiğini söylerken en büyük hayalinin kendi kendine çalışan bir makina üretmek olduğunu söylüyor. Özellikle hayatını kendi ağzından dinlemek de bizim için daha değerli.

*"İlk çabalarımız parlak ve zaptedilmez bir hayalin tamamen içgüdüsel dışa vurumudur. Büyüdükçe mantık kendini ortaya koyar, gittikçe daha sistematik, daha planlı oluruz. Fakat o ilk dürtüler hemen üretken olmasalar da en büyük anlardır ve kaderimizi çizebilir."

(audiolibro) Interessante per farsi un'idea del genio di Tesla, sicuramente non un capolavoro letterario. Il mio voto: 3 stelle.

Difficult to read and unstructured. Too dry and short for a personal bio. Too unspecific, contextless and pretentious for a science/engineering-focused book.

I can't remember when I read this - it was probably 2 decades ago. Anyway, one thing I found interesting is that Tesla thought that schools could teach engineers to think like he did.

I have got to read more about Tesla. Very interesting guy.

"Ever since I was told by some of the greatest men of the time, leaders in science whose names are immortal, that I possess an unusual mind, I bent all my thinking faculties on the solution of great problems regardless of sacrifice."

Nicole Tesla was a genius who never got the recognition he deserved. It's fascinating to read about his life in his own words. The only issue with this book is that it's too small and it will all end too quickly leaving you craving for more.

Nisam ni oduševljen, ni zgrožen. Nezahvalno je ocenjivati memoarističku prozu. Ruku na srce, sumnjam da bih se dohvatio ovog štiva, a da nisam obavezan gradivom ispita, kao sada. Moja ocena nema veze sa Teslom, ali ima veze sa sadržajem njegove biografije. Vrlo verovatno je do mene, jer me sama tematika koja je u kontekstu sa fizikom i mehanikom, ne interesuje, i ne razumem je dobro, a i forma biografija mi je uglavnom dosadna, statična i suvoparna.

Nikola Tesla'nın yaptığı çalışmalar ve fikirleri üzerine yazdığı makalelerden oluşan bir eser.

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Tesla’s autobiography is interesting and informative albeit also odd owing to his unique character.
There’s a lot to learn from it, I learned a lot from just reading about his life, and if you’re reading it as an engineer or a scientist that would be a plus. I didn’t understand much of the scientific explanations, but even these were written in an engrossing style that wasn’t boring at all, and were interspersed by interesting anecdotes. Generally, it’s a nice piece of scientific reference as well as an engaging piece of literature.
Though I didn’t like the parts where he got into politics. These were minimal actually, but I wasn’t able to process his point of view at all.
His conception of peace and war in relation to the technology he helped advance wasn’t clear to me and seemed rather vague.
I also found it interesting that he didn’t believe in free will. Though he did advance the ‘art of Tel-automatics’ what’s to our modern day would be artificial intelligence. So I wish there was more elaboration in relation to this topic.
In general, it’s a very modest sketch of his life, and very little elaboration is provided on those major points pertaining to his political views or his life’s philosophy and even very little is provided as to how he approached science methodically.

P.S. after writing this review and scrolling over other reviews, I found a quote that is not a part of the edition I’d read.
So now I’m wondering if perhaps the ambiguity of the book in some parts is attributed to my edition.

Note: 2nd reading.

I read this book three times. Although its a bit disorganized and despite the fact that it is a very brief autobiography, it remains to be one of the best autobiographies I have read. I don't think anyone who reads Tesla's autobiography wouldn't be fascinated by him. His character, his genius, and most of all, his hard work that lead to many of the advancements we see today. Tesla was one of the visionaries of the 19th and 20th century, yet so many people never heard about him.
The 'book' is very short, and it wouldn't take more than a few hours to finish.

Nikola Tesla was wonderfully weird. His autobiography is testament of a strange life indeed, but with his amazing mind, who'd expect it to be normal? I liked the anecdotes about his mother, who, he writes, invented and constructed all kinds of tools and devices, and from whom he seems to have inherited his creativity and imagination. And who'd have known that, in between his experiments and demonstrations, he found the time to read all the works of Voltaire?

Some interesting quotes:
“My mother was an inventor of the first order and would, I believe, have achieved great things had she not been so remote from modern life and its multifold opportunities. She invented and constructed all kinds of tools and devices and wove the finest designs from thread which was spun by her. She even planted seeds, raised the plants and separated the fibres herself. She worked indefatigably, from break of day till late at night, and most of the wearing apparel and furnishings of the home were the product of her hands. When she was past sixty, her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash.”

“I counted the steps in my walks and calculated the cubical contents of soup plates, coffee cups and pieces of food, otherwise my meal was unenjoyable. All repeated acts or operations I performed had to be divisible by three and if I missed I felt impelled to do it all over again, even if it took hours.”

“I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire, when I learned, to my dismay that there were close to one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside that last book I was very glad, and said, “Never more!””