My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

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Should be made standard reading for school children everywhere as a supreme example of what a curious and enquiring mind can achieve. Immer wieder berichtet Tesla von Erfahrungen, die er als Kind oder Jugendlicher gemacht hat, die für seine späteren Arbeiten prägend waren. Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 and worked for Thomas Edison, becoming Edison's rival because Edison only believed in the merchandising of inferior DC electric power. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and, when reversed, became an electric motor, and he conceived a way to use alternating current to advantage. When Tesla did so, Edison laughed and said, "Tesla, you don't understand our American sense of humour".

p.s: Evlilik sözleşmene "İşbu sözleşmede adı geçen ABC hanım, gebeliği süresince "minnoşumu nasıl büyütmeli" vb. Bir keresinde Voltaire'in eserlerini okumaya başlamış ve o canavarın gün boyu yetmiş iki fincan sade kahveyi devirerek yazdığı, küçük harflerle basılmış yaklaşık yüz kitaplık bir külliyatı olduğunu öğrenince gözüm korkmuştu. In the last few decades of his life, he ended up living in diminished circumstances as a recluse in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, occasionally making unusual statements to the press. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. I found it best not to try and understand every detail, and he certainly makes some giant leaps of imagination but you can feel Tesla's passion in the colour of his anecdotes and explanations.He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. Tesla was considered a "maverick" (today he would simply be labeled a "moron") because he was a real scientist who depended on empirical evidence through experimentation and observation with subsequent objective proof.

This success was a factor in their winning the contract to install the first power machinery at Niagara Falls, which bore Tesla’s name and patent numbers.Westinghouse used Tesla’s alternating current system to light the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.

He was the first to perfect a method of generating alternating current and running electrical machinery with AC, as well as inventing a turbine engine, and radio transmission long before Marconi's feat. A humanitarian, creator and persona of immense presence and prescience this work gives you a view of history and the world seldom seen.As such it’s an interesting read, and certainly a bit of a curiosity, though it is a little bit of a slog even for a short book.