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Product Description
Tesla
Man Out of Time
The definitive biography of Tesla
By Margaret Cheney (author) and Nikola Tesla (subject)
Our Price: $6.50
Our Item Code: tesla
Postage Code: book1
320 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
Cover Size: 4 x 7 inches
Laurel/Dell
Date: 1981
ISBN: 0-440-39077-x
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 12/29/96
WIRT: 5553x235
Availability: This item is usually in stock and available for immediate
Priority Mail shipment. Order it today (by 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific),
and you will probably have it in 2-3 days (in USA).
Features: Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes, Photo Insert
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Credibility
5
Very High |
Research Value
5
Very High |
Cultural Interest
5
Very High |
Visual Information
3
Moderate |
Style
NR
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Silliness
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Low |
Wow Factor
3
Interesting |
Bargain
5
Very High |
Explanation of Ratings
Credibility = Very High: In general, this catagory is a rating of the author's intellectual discipline
and the strength of his argument (which are very high), not the veracity of his claims (which could be false in spite of the strong argument).
Bargain = Very High: With its dense typeface and 320 pages, you get a lot of words for the money.
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This is the story of Nikola Tesla, the brilliant,
obsessive and
slightly crazed
inventor (as are the good ones) of alternating
current, Tesla
coils, wireless power transmission and who laid much
of the ground
work for the development of radio. The book also
covers Tesla's bitter
feud with Edison, his chief rival at the time. The
work of Tesla
is beloved by conspiracy buffs, who credit technology
descendant from
Tesla's original work with UFO propulsion, mind
control, death rays
and earthquake generation.
This book sticks to the facts, though, and is
considered the
definitive Tesla biography.
You ought to read this one before delving into the
wild stuff.
-- Glenn Campbell
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Publisher's Synopsis
Portrays the trailblazing nineteenth-century
inventor, the man who
introduced the fundamentals of
robotry and computer and missile science
and who harnessed the
alternating electrical current used today.
From the Book Cover
A visionary genius,his discoveries radically
changed-and continue to
change-the world we live in. "A dramatic and poignant
portrait.
"-Discover
"A visionary genius as fertile as any in the modern
history of science..."
Flamboyant, eccentric, almost suppernaturally gifted,
had he been born today
he would still be ahead of his time. Called a madman
by some, a genius by
others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola
Tesla was perhaps the
greatest inventor the world has ever known.
He was a trailblazer who created astonishing,
world-transforming devices,
often without theoretical precedent. It was Tesla who
harnessed
the alternating electrical current we use
today...Tesla who actually invented
radio... Tesla who invented fluorescent lighting and
the incredible bladeless
turbine. He introduced us to the fundamentals of
robotry and computer and
missile science, which continue to create and
transform the future.
This fascinating biography, acclaimed by
American Scientist as
"excellent...a significant contribution to the recent
history of science," is a
riveting journey into the mind of the
nineteenth-century wizard who was
Edison's enemy, Mark Twain's friend, J.P.Morgan's
client, and mentor to many
of the twentieth-centuey's most famous scientists.
Margaret Cheney is a science writer and author of two
other nonfiction books.
She lives in California.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- 1. Modern Prometheus
- 2. A Gambling Man
- 3. Immigrants of Distinction
- 4. At the Court of Mr. Edison
- 5. The War of the Currents Begins
- 6. Order of the Flaming Sword
- 7. Radio
- 8. High Society
- 9. High Road, Low Road
- 10. An Error of Judgement
- 11. To Mars
- 12. Robots
- 13. Hurler of Lightning
- 14. Blackout at Colorado Springs
- 15. Magnificent and Doomed
- 16. Ridiculed, Condemned, Combatted
- 17. The Great Radio Controversy
- 18. Midstream Perils
- 19. The Nobel Affair
- 20. Flying Stove
- 21. Radar
- 22. The Guest of Honor
- 23.Pigeons
- 24.Transitions
- 25. The Birthday Parties
- 26. Corks on Water
- 27. Cosmic Communion
- 28. Death and Transfiguration
- 29. The Missing Papers
- 30. The Legacy
Bibliographical Essay
Reference Notes
Postscript
Index
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