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Title: Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John Jacob O'Neil, John J. O'Neill ISBN: 0-913022-40-3 Publisher: Angriff Pr Pub. Date: December, 1944 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is an experience that will change your life.
Comment: Here is a story of a man born in the glorious womb of science, a man who so completely understood the laws of nature and the scientific method that he commanded total dominion over the physical universe.
Once you read this book you will find it difficult to name an aspect of modern life that hasn't been affected by the hand of Nikola Tesla.
Some of Tesla's ideas were so far ahead of his time that to the people of his day, they were considered impossible; his vision of the world of the future was mocked and laughed at even by other scientists. Over time scepticism about the possibilities of science and technology has waned. Unfortunately for us the world was not yet ready for Tesla, this man out of time, and he died with his greatest achievments alive only in his mind.
Rating: 4
Summary: Biased, but still a good book
Comment: The reporting of Tesla's life is biased to report the good, and gloss over the errors. Despite this, it is still a very good book, a great insight to a great inventor. The comparison of methods with Edison is interesting. Tesla's ideas were all his, and Edison use lots more experimentation. According to the book. Treat with an once of salt. Still excellent material though.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring book -- great for kids or adults!
Comment: I read this book in April 1945, just after it first appeared. A fantastically inspiring book for me, then a 14-year-old would-be genius. It nourished me intellectually and emotionally for five years -- until I outgrew it. The author was science editor for the New York Herald Tribune, but like so many Tesla enthusiasts today, was uncritical of Tesla's theoretical ideas, neither recasting them in today's language of physics, nor criticizing them where they are clearly wrong (or wrong-headed). Still, it's a book scientifically-oriented folks should read.
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Title: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Ben Johnston ISBN: 0910077002 Publisher: Hart Brothers Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius (Citadel Press Book) by Marc J. Seifer ISBN: 0806519606 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Tesla - Master of Lightning ASIN: B000051SHA Publisher: PBS Home Video Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.95 |
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Title: Tesla: Master of Lightning by Margaret Chaney, Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth ISBN: 158663187X Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.98 |
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Title: The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla : Haarp - Chemtrails and Secret of Alternative 4 by Tim Swartz, Timothy Beckley ISBN: 1892062135 Publisher: Global Communications Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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