Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

Munson, Richard

ISBN 10: 0393635449 / ISBN 13: 9780393635447

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

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Riassunto:

TeslaWhen his first breakthrough alternating current, the basis of the electric grid pitted him against Thomas Edison s direct-current empire, Tesla s superior technology prevailed. Unfortunately, he had little business sense and could not capitalize on this success. His most advanced ideas went unrecognized for decades: forty years in the case of the radio patent, longer still for his ideas on laser beam technology. Although penniless during his later years, he never stopped imagining. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray weapons, and interstellar communications. His ideas have lived on to shape the modern economy.FaustTesla worked tirelessly to offer electric power to the world, to introduce automatons that would reduce life s drudgery, and to develop machines that might one day abolish war. His story is a reminder that technology can transcend the marketplace and that profit is not the only motivation for invention. This clear, authoritative, and highly readable biography takes account of all phases of Tesla s remarkable life.

Informazioni sull?autore: Richard Munson is an author, businessman, and activist in the field of clean energy and industrial energy efficiency. He directs the Environmental Defense Fund's clean energy efforts in the Midwest. He lives outside Chicago, Illinois.

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Titolo: Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: good