Tesla : Inventor of the Electrical Age /
"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"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.