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Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Inventer

05/06/2006 9:16 AM

Read The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity, by Robert Lomas. Published by Headline Books ISBN 0747275882.
It explains in fine detail this man's life story. It is a must for all serious electrical engineers.
I tried to write a summary but after twenty mins of hard graft it wiped itself. So buy this book. I did and it is well worth the money. I am in no way employed by the author or publisher. I just think Nikola Tesla should be recognized as perhaps THE most important person to have lived in the last two centuries. Give it ago, he was so much more the his coils.

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Tesla the forgotten genius.

05/07/2006 6:32 PM

Thanks for the ISBN I've been looking for this book for years.

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Tesla invents first high performance electric car?

05/08/2006 10:35 AM

On this topic, I read on Friday that Mr. Tesla also powered a 1931 Pierce-Arrow with an 80 kW electric motor and some spare parts from a radio store for several days at speeds in excess of 90 mph - with no batteries!! Can anyone confirm / debuke this story? Article: http://www.keelynet.com/energy/teslafe1.htm Thanks, Stephan

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Tesla

05/08/2006 9:31 AM

I bought a book about Tesla at Barnes and Noble a couple of years ago. After finishing it I passed it on to a nephew. Don't know if it is the same book.

A former Chicagoan, it got me to thinking. Tesla's 3 phase AC power system lit and powered the 1892 Chicago Columbia Exhibition Worlds Fair. It was probably the most significant innovation featured at the fair.

In 1933, the diesel electric train, the Zephyr opened the second year of the 1932 Chicago Century of Progress World's fair. This technology saved the railroads from bankruptcy at the height of the depression and the train is probably the most significant in North America (it is currently on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry).

Are World Fairs passe? Do they feature such significant technological advancement anymore?

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Re: Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Inventer

05/08/2007 4:58 AM

some people often said whether we forget someone who has very important distributed to some diciipline. most of time is based on reporters.

I dont think we forget them, for example, Tesla, we still use his coil in our electric industry and we still use their name as our electromagnetic unit.

but in textbook, there indeed is rare introduce to them.

they are aall our times treasure and pride.

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