Tesla, man out of time / Margaret Cheney.

Author
Cheney, Margaret [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1981.
Description
xvi, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      Possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known, Tesla harnessed the alternating electrical current we use today, invented fluorescent lighting, the bladeless turbine, and introduced the fundamentals of robotry, computers and missile science and helped pave the way for such space age technologies as satellites microwave beam weapons and nuclear fusion.
      Notes
      Includes index.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: 291-292.
      ISBN
      • 0139068597
      • 9780139068591
      LCCN
      81012040
      OCLC
      7672251
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