The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (Lost Science)

Editorial Reviews. Review. Heavily illustrated book on Tesla. About the Author. Nikola Tesla ( – ) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer .
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In the last few decades of his life, he ended up living in diminished circumstances as a recluse in Room of the New Yorker Hotel, occasionally making unusual statements to the press.


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Because of his pronouncements and the nature of his work over the years, Tesla gained a reputation in popular culture as the archetypal "mad scientist. In , in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term 'tesla' to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the s, his reputation has experienced a comeback in popular culture.

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His work and reputed inventions are also at the center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age occultism. David Hatcher Childress is the author of numerous books that focus on ancient astronauts, UFOs, and anti-gravity.

The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (The Lost Science Series)

Incredible Proof We Are Not Alone, Childress uses photographs, drawings, and maps to demonstrate that the moons and planets in our solar system were once, and still are, inhabited by extraterrestrial beings. Childress's Lost Cities series, which includes Lost Cities of North and Central America and Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America, takes the reader on an incredible adventure through time exploring ancient mysteries and lost civilizations.

Childress resides in Kempton, Illinois. In Tesla's own words, are such topics as wireless transmission of power, death rays, and radio-controlled airships. The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla.

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Nikola Tesla , David Hatcher Childress. This book is a readable compendium of patents, diagrams, photos and explanations of the many incredible inventions of the originator of the modern era of electrification. In addition rare material on German bases in Antarctica and South America, and a secret city built at a remote jungle site in South America by one of Tesla's students, Guglielmo Marconi.

This is the second one I've read, and both have been below par.

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But even if I did , there are no explanations accompanying the drawings, so what good are they? Other chapters seem to be lectures or articles he wrote. The Appendix is a partial transcript of a trial -just the part where witnesses are trying to describe the conditions of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower before it was demolished.

Some reprints of newspaper articles and photographs of the laboratories liven things up, but this books was very disappointing overall.

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I took out of this two things of interest; One, that in his article of March 5, Electrical World and Engineer he states " A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one's pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world's news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts.


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    6. Two, that the mad scientist in the very first Max Fletcher "Superman" cartoons of the early 's were most likely patterned after Tesla, who believed that he had created a "Death-Beam" in BooksOn23rd Nov 25, Status Childress, David Hatcher Editor primary author all editions confirmed Tesla, Nikola — secondary author all editions confirmed. You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

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