A fascinating insight into an extraordinary mind and an age when scientists were lauded as heroes. Tesla recalls his earliest inventions (such as a delightfully bizarre motor powered by live beetles), waxes lyrical on the "exquisite enjoyment" of invention, tells how he was inspired to create his revolutionary AC induction motor by a passage from Goethe's Faust, and dreams in 1916 of creating a superweapon so terrible that it would immediately end the carnage of the first world war. What Hunt rightly describes as the "beautiful and strange" essays in this collection were written between 18. He pioneered alternating current power transmission and, as the novelist Samantha Hunt says in her wonderfully partisan and illuminating introduction, it was Tesla not Marconi who invented radio. Nikola Tesla Serbian-American inventor Cite External Websites Written by Inez Whitaker Hunt Lecturer and freelance writer. His remarkable ability to visualise inventions soon made him famous.
This rare window into the industrial age’s most tragic genius will fascinate historians, scientists, aspiring inventors, and curious fans alike. Born in Croatia in 1856, he emigrated to the United States in his 20s. This volume also includes three articles by Tesla, as well as an enlightening introduction that discredits many of the myths surrounding the thinker’s eccentric life. A t the beginning of the 20th century, Tesla was for most Americans the embodiment of the inventor as genius.
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