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Lightning strikes : timeless lessons in creativity from the life and work of Nikola Tesla
Lightning strikes examines Nikola Tesla's unusual life and mind, along with his many visions and innovations, which have helped shape our past, our present, and our future. It also explores why the government hoped to shut down his bold experiments and how his groundbreaking ideas and inventions are being implemented in the global technologies of clean power, robotics, and wireless transmission of power and information. But most of all, Lightning Strikes offers lessons on creativity from his life and work that can be applied in today's world.
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Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft.
Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an \"idealist\" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion.
This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.
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Trailblazers of technology
\"Robotics, the Internet, and computers are some of the most signifcant technology breakthroughs of the last hundred years. This book identifies the pioneers of technology and how their innovations have revolutionized our world. Readers will enjoy reading the stories behind each historic invention as well as the mini bios of the technology \"STEM-gineers\" who made them. Experiments and research challenges help reinforce concepts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Marconi : the man who networked the world
Mark Raboy's biography traces the origins and emergence of our present networked system of global communication through the stunning life and career of Guglielmo Marconi.
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Thomas Edison, le magicien de Menlo Park
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Thomas Edison et ses inventions en moins d'une heure! Inventeur de génie, Thomas Edison est aussi l'un des plus prolifiques de tous les temps. Pourtant, rien ne laissait présager un tel destin... Peu scolarisé, il est d'abord vendeur de journaux à 12 ans, puis télégraphiste à 15, avant de devenir l'un des meilleurs ingénieurs de Wall Street à seulement 22 ans. Il ne cesse dès lors d'accumuler les succès. Doté d'une curiosité insatiable et passionné depuis l'enfance par les expériences en tous genres, il crée coup sur coup les plus grandes inventions modernes: le microphone, le phonographe, l'ampoule électrique, le kinétographe, le kinétoscope... Autant d'appareils qui changeront radicalement la vie des hommes du monde entier! Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: •La vie de Thomas Edison
•Le contexte de l'époque
•Les grandes inventions de Thomas Edison
•Les répercussions de ses inventions Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES Grandes Inventions », Benjamin Reyners nous fait découvrir la vie de l'un de plus grands inventeurs américains, Thomas Edison. Tel un Léonard de Vinci, il n'a cessé durant sa vie de perfectionner des objets pour les rendre utilisables par un plus grand nombre et d'en créer d'autres qui révolutionneront grandement le quotidien de millions de personnes. Avec plus d'un millier de brevets à son actif, il est de loin l'un des plus incroyables créateurs de tous les temps. » Stéphanie Dagrain
À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Inventions La série « Grandes Inventions » de la collection « 50MINUTES » présente plus de cinquante inventions qui ont bouleversé notre quotidien. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent faire le tour d'un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits historiques, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Who was Thomas Alva Edison?
A short biography of the famous inventor. Some of his creations are discussed.
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Nikola Tesla and the electrical future
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science. Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. More than just a biography of Tesla, this book takes the inventor as its guide and follows him through the cut-throat entrepreneurial culture of late Victorian and Edwardian electrical invention. -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Engineering Invention
Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs--from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale operational electric railway system--all while commercializing his inventions and promoting them (and himself as their inventor) to financial backers and the public. In Engineering Invention, Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology. In a burst of innovation during these years, Sprague and his contemporaries--Thomas Edison, Nicolas Tesla, Elmer Sperry, George Westinghouse, and others--transformed the technologies of electricity and reshaped modern life. After working briefly for Edison, Sprague started the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company; designed and built an electric railroad system for Richmond, Virginia; sold his company to Edison and went into the field of electric elevators; almost accidentally discovered a multiple-control system that could equip electric train systems for mass transit; started a third company to commercialize this; then sold this company to Edison and retired (temporarily). Throughout his career, Dalzell tells us, Sprague framed technology as invention, cast himself as hero, and staged his technologies as dramas. He toiled against the odds, scraped together resources to found companies, bet those companies on technical feats--and pulled it off, multiple times. The idea of the \"heroic inventor\" is not, of course, the only way to frame the history of technology. Nevertheless, as Dalzell shows, Sprague, Edison, and others crafted the role consciously and actively, using it to generate vital impetus behind the process of innovation.
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