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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cooper, Christopher, 1944- author.     Subjects     Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.     Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 -- Influence.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cooper, Christopher, 1944- author.       by title:      The truth about Tesl...         MARC Display

The truth about Tesla : the myth of the lone genius in the history of innovation / Christopher Cooper ; foreword by Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. by Cooper, Christopher, 1944- author. New York : Race Point Publishing, 2015. Subjects Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.   Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 -- Influence.   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. ISBN:  9781631060304 (hardback) 1631060309 (hardback) Description:  195 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Requests:  0 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? 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 624.3092 Tesla Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimanalo P/S Library Adult Biography B Tesla Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: Prev 1 2

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