The Problem of Increasing Human Energy - Softcover

Tesla, Nikola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9561001616 ISBN 13: 9789561001619

Publisher: BN Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

NIKOLA TESLA, the revolutionary scientist and inventor who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism.

From the possibilities presented by robotics to the "civilizing potency of aluminum," from a "self-acting engine" to one of the first proposals to use solar power to run industrial civilization, and much more, this is a wide-ranging but illuminating look into the thoughts of an unsung hero of scientific philosophy.

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About the Author

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor. Because of his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist by many late in his life. Tesla died with little money at the age of 86 in a hotel suite in New York City. The SI unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the CGPM, Paris, 1960).

Edition details

• Publisher: BN Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9561001616
• ISBN 13: 9789561001619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108