My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

by Nikola Tesla, Andras Nagy (Introduction)

Overview

This book is based on the autobiographical articles written by Tesla and contains foreword by the editor/publisher.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012356734
Publisher:	Ancient Wisdom Publications
Publication date:	04/09/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	106
File size:	140 KB

About the Author

Nikola Tesla 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. This work helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, in the Croatian Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia), Tesla was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Because of his 1894 demonstration of wireless communication through radio and as the eventual victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.