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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was a great biography of the famed inventor. All the little anecdotes, mixed with the important details of his life, were here and made me wonder and think about both Tesla and his creations. Tesla lived a difficult life, and this is all established here and expounded upon. A well done biography that people should read. 4.5 stars! The most balanced treatment of the fascinating man I know of. It goes into more technical detail than others I have read. An excellent combination of description and analysis that neither idolizes Tesla for his bold imagination, vision and achievement, nor disparages him for his more off-the-wall and impractical ideas and perhaps less than intelligent approach to things. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This book puts these in perspective and helps separate the truth from the myth. The truth is, he was a very smart inventor at a time when a lot of major technical inventions were coming into being. Tesla made his money (which would be 10s of millions in todays dollars) by patenting his work and leasing it out to other companies. This goes against some of the Tesla conspiracy theories that circulate today.
What was interesting to me was that Tesla seemed myopic in pursuit of wireless power transfer, which eventually would bankrupt him. During this time he neglected radio transmission (which let Marcone take credit) and he overlooked X-rays in his experiments, only realizing them after someone else made the discovery.
Tesla seemed like a nerd who loved thinking of world changing electronics, but not always with a plan on how to roll them out to the world who would use them. This, coupled with a love for living the high life, meant that he was dreaming big and living big, but was not able to continually raise more funds needed to make wireless power a reality. ( )