My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

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Für mich hat sich die Lektüre gelohnt und meine Bewunderung für Nikola Tesla ist noch weiter gewachsen. Nikola Tesla (1856 –1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. The series was republished as Moji Pronalasci – My Inventions, Školska Knjiga, Zagreb, 1977, on the occasion of Tesla's 120th anniversary, with side-by-side English and Serbo-Croatian translations by Tomo Bosanac and Vanja Aljinović, Branimira Valić, ed. Sebbene sapevo che forze elettromotrici più elevate si potevano ottenere con apparati di dimensioni molto più grandi, il mio istinto mi diceva che lo stesso obiettivo potesse essere raggiunto progettando in modo opportuno un trasmettitore proporzionalmente più piccolo e compatto.

Reading this nearly 100-year-old book (98 years, actually) changed my view about certain things which the current generation takes for granted. It's not particularly well-written in the standard sense (and my copy, at least, was ATROCIOUSLY edited).The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old. Online Internet scrutiny has subsequently revealed numerous omissions and additions that did not appear in the original serial text published in Electrical Experimenter magazine. Some parts of the book read as 'familiar' because of how precise Tesla saw into our time and beyond. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla as a consultant to help develop an alternating current system. Tesla holds the patent for and is credited for designing the 1st radio, even though Marconi has his name in the History books.

But reading his own writings is still a revelation, in that however smart and however odd you think he is, you're barely halfway there.

The concluding essay here, 'The Problem of Increasing Human Energy', is at once a massively ahead-of-its-time plea for renewable energy, and a bonkers tract of mechanical mysticism which wouldn't be out of place as a tract for the insane cult of Gordelpus in Stapledon's Last and First Men.

Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. The book also gives some insight into what it's like to be a genius, and some of the abilities such a person possesses. He was the first to perfect a method of generating alternating current and running electrical machinery with AC, as well as inventing a turbine engine, and radio transmission long before Marconi's feat.Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. Focusing on Green energy on a mass level without considering the problems of storage and proper transmission would cause more problems on the long run. Harnessing the energy we need from natural and clean resources is achievable, but it will require some time to become manifest.