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" Tesla : "
W. Bernard Carlson
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BL
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632245
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| Main Entry
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Carlson, W. Bernard
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| Title & Author
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Tesla : : inventor of the electrical age /\ W. Bernard Carlson
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xiii, 500 pages :: illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, photographs ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780691057767
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: 0691057761
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Dinner at Delmonico's -- An ideal childhood (1856-1878) -- Dreaming of motors (1878-1882) -- Learning by doing (1882-1886) -- Mastering alternating current (1886-1888) -- Selling the motor (1888-1889) -- Searching for a new ideal (1889-1891) -- A veritable magician (1891) -- Taking the show to Europe (1891-1892) -- Pushing alternating current in America (1892-1893) -- Wireless lighting and the oscillator (1893-1894) -- Efforts at promotion (1894-1895) -- Looking for alternatives (1895-1898) -- Stationary waves (1899-1900) -- Wardenclyffe (1900-1901) -- The dark tower (1901-1905) -- Visionary to the end (1905-1943)
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| Abstract
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"This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"--
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Tesla, Nikola,1856-1943
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Electrical engineers-- United States, Biography
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Inventors-- United States, Biography
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| Dewey Classification
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621.3092B
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TK140.T4C37 2013
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| Parallel Title
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Inventor of the electricial age
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