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Summary

Explore the Captivating Life of Nikola Tesla!

Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, Nikola Tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating current (AC) and other significant contributions to science. His claim that “harnessing the forces of nature was the only worthwhile scientific endeavor" both impressed and enraged the scientific community. Eventually his peers could no longer dismiss his eccentricities and began to view him as a crackpot - a potentially dangerous one. 

Although Tesla’s work was a major factor in the success of the second Industrial Revolution, he died alone, impoverished, and largely shunned by the scientific community that once hailed him a genius. Beset by visions, without a wife or children, Nikola Tesla’s brilliant mind changed the world, even though at the time of his death he passed unnoticed into obscurity.

Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:  

  • Childhood
  • Education and Early Career
  • Patents and Politics
  • The Eccentric Genius
  • Tesla’s Coil and the Niagara Contract
  • Influential Friends and the Lure of Flight
  • The Wardenclyffe Tower
  • 1914 and Beyond
  • And much more!

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An Historian, an inventor.

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He was the pioneer of the modern inventions. But he didnt able to utilize all himself.

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An informative Volume

A very nice short and comprehensive informative volume. With a very clear and distinctive narration.

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Awesome book...

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In an expository arrangement, this portion take single from side to side the near the beginning babyhood of teals as in Croatia where he knowledgeable strange visual dream that finally gave him wonderful powers of reminiscence and hallucination to preliminary an tremor in the Newyorkcity.

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A nice guy named Tesla

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This is a great book. It gives a view into his life that most people are unaware of. Be aware, you might not think very highly of Thomas Edison after you read this book.

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Nikola tesla was a great inventor.

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Nikola tesla was a great inventor. He was famous because of his important inventions! History books are great informative books. In these book you can learn everything about Nikola Tesla’s life and how is became one of the most famous inventors who ever lived. Great book, I highly recommend it to everyone!

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Surprisingly good

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It is a much more interesting story than I expected. Part of Tesla's purpose was to increase respect for inventors.

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