Nikola Tesla: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor (Biographies)
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Explore the Captivating Life of Nikola Tesla!Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, Nikola Tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating current (AC), and other significant contributions to science. His claim that harnessing the forces of nature was the only worthwhile scientific endeavor both impressed and enraged the scientific community. Eventually, his peers could no longer dismiss his eccentricities and began to view him as a crackpot a potentially dangerous one. Although Teslas work was a major factor in the success of the second Industrial Revolution, he died alone, impoverished, and largely shunned by the scientific community that once hailed him a genius.Beset by visions, without a wife or children, Nikola Teslas brilliant mind changed the world, even though at the time of his death he passed unnoticed into obscurity.
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Obsessive, brilliant, and misunderstood, Nikola Tesla was lauded for alternating current and ultimately dismissed by the scientific community he had once dazzled. This comprehensive biography traces his genius, his rivalry with Edison, and the ideas that outpaced everyone around him. A serious, engrossing read for a high-schooler who wants the full, complicated picture of the man whose work made the electric world possible.
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