Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus: The Entire Life Story - Paperback
Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus: The Entire Life Story - Paperback
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by The History Hour (Author)
Nikola Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments. Tesla explained the principles of the rotating magnetic field in an induction motor by demonstrating how to make a copper egg stand on end, using a device that he constructed known as the Egg of Columbus and introduced his new steam powered oscillator AC generator.
Inside you'll read about
- A promising intellect
- Health complications
- Inventive work
- A troubled mind
- Unusual experiences
- Mental breakdown
- Controversial viewpoints
- A forgotten mind
- From breakdown to brainstorm
- Overshadowed by rivals
- Death of a forgotten mind
And much more
Based on Tesla's new ideas for electrical equipment, including a thermo-magnetic motor idea, Alfred S. Brown and Charles F. Peck formed the Tesla Electric Company. Nikola Tesla developed an induction motor that ran on alternating current (AC), a power system format that was rapidly expanding in Europe and the United States because of its advantages in long-distance, high-voltage transmission.
