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Author Cooper, Christopher, 1944- author.

Title The truth about Tesla : the myth of the lone genius in the history of innovation / Christopher Cooper ; foreword by Marc J. Seifer, Ph. D
Published New York : Race Point Publishing, a member of Quarto Publishing Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Myth of the Lone Genius -- Chapter Two: The Conventional Account of a Modern Genius -- Chapter Three: Understanding Electricity -- Chapter Four: The Polyphase Alternating Current (AC) Motor -- Chapter Five: Electrical Transformers and the Tesla Coil -- Chapter Six: Wireless Transmission -- Chapter Seven: The Truth about Tesla -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Index -- Photo Credits -- Acknowledgments
Summary Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has been restored to his rightful place among historical luminaries like Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Gugliemo Marconi. Most biographies repeat the familiar account of Tesla's life, including his invention of alternating current, his falling out with Edison, how he lost billions in patent royalties to Westinghouse, and his fight to prove that Marconi stole 13 of his patents to "invent" radio. But, what really happened? Consider this: Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Newly uncovered information proves that the popular account of Tesla's life is itself very flawed. In The Truth About Tesla, Christopher Cooper sets out to prove that the conventional story not only oversimplifies history, it denies credit to some of the true inventors behind many of the groundbreaking technologies now attributed to Tesla and perpetuates a misunderstanding about the process of innovation itself. Are you positive that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Are you sure the Wright Brothers were the first in flight? Think again! With a provocative foreward by Tesla biographer Marc. J. Seifer, The Truth About Tesla is one of the first books to set the record straight, tracing the origin of some of the greatest electrical inventions to a coterie of colorful characters that conventional history has all but forgotten
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Subject Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 -- Influence
SUBJECT Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 fast
Subject Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography
Inventors -- United States -- Biography
Inventions -- United States -- History
Technological innovations -- United States -- History
Lighting -- United States -- History
Electric currents, Alternating -- Polyphase.
Tesla coils.
Electrical engineering -- United States -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
Electric currents, Alternating -- Polyphase
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineers
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Inventions
Inventors
Lighting
Technological innovations
Tesla coils
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781627887076
1627887075