Tesla : Inventor of the Electrical Age /

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"This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Carlson, W. Bernard
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Tesla, Nikola, > (1856-1943)
Tesla, Nikola > 1856-1943
Tesla, Nikola, > 1856-1943.
Tesla, Nikola, > 1856-1943
Uppfinningar > historia.
Uppfinnare.
Elektricitet.
Inventeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Ingenieurs electriciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Inventors.
Electrical engineers.
SCIENCE > Electromagnetism.
SCIENCE > Electricity.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Inventors > United States > Biography.
Electrical engineers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Biographies
collective biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Dinner at Delmonico's
  • An ideal childhood (1856-1878)
  • Dreaming of motors (1878-1882)
  • Learning by doing (1882-1886)
  • Mastering alternating current (1886-1888)
  • Selling the motor (1888-1889)
  • Searching for a new ideal (1889-1891)
  • A veritable magician (1891)
  • Taking the show to Europe (1891-1892)
  • Pushing alternating current in America (1892-1893)
  • Wireless lighting and the oscillator (1893-1894)
  • Efforts at promotion (1894-1895)
  • Looking for alternatives (1895-1898)
  • Stationary waves (1899-1900)
  • Wardenclyffe (1900-1901)
  • The dark tower (1901-1905)
  • Visionary to the end (1905-1943)
  • Epilogue.

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