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Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla’s greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. His discoveries gave mankind the television. And his dream of wireless communication came to pass in both the radio and eventually the cell phone. Yet his story rem… More >>
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
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#1 by Gary Peterson on June 28, 2010 - 10:56 am
This is NOT Nikola Tesla’s MY INVENTIONS, published in the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER magazine, February-June and October, 1919 issues. It is a corrupted version of Tesla’s autobiography titled THE STRANGE LIFE OF NIKOLA TESLA. The original document was published in booklet form a copy of which was found in a used bookstore in 1994, transcribed, and published on the Internet. The booklet was subsequently found to contain significant errors, omissions, revisions and also some additions that did not appear in the original 6-part serial text.
Buyer beware!
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by C. J. Kershner on June 28, 2010 - 11:57 am
The presentation of Nikola Tesla’s fascinating life and work is manhandled in this edition of his autobiography, My Inventions.
The text is full of typographical errors; the letter “i” (referring to Tesla in the first-person) is rarely ever capitalized, and there are numerous misspellings of simple words. Paragraph breaks seem to have been inserted at random and, when compared to other editions, do not correspond with the others’ layouts or chapters.
I do not know what Tesla’s manuscript looked like or who is responsible for typesetting it for BNPublishing, but it is most telling that Amazon’s link to look inside this book redirects to a different edition.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by The Lost One on June 28, 2010 - 12:29 pm
I’m really a fan of Tesla and this book was a good view into him as a person. Although the exact same pages of this book can be found in the end portion of the book “The Nikola Tesla Treasury” and I highly suggest that book over this one.
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Robert Medford Jr. on June 28, 2010 - 2:18 pm
I never knew about Tesla until this year. I never knew how much his work affected my everyday living. I wish they would’ve let him go ahead with the free energy towers worldwide, it would be a different planet now.
He might have moved us into a Type I civilization by now. Type I is using all the power of the sun. Right now we use less than 5% of it which makes us a Type 0 because we still use plants and minerals for fuel.
The Book was a great read and it moved me into The Tesla Papers next.
It’s a good starting point.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Steven Alyari on June 28, 2010 - 3:55 pm
This is a great book which surfaces Tesla’s biography, image of himself and of his internal mental processes. The way Tesla outlines his own internal thought processes and psychology is deeply interesting. I think anyone who aspires to be an inventory would be inspired by reading this book. Tesla’s explanation of how he ran experiments in his mind without needing any interfering apparatus is inspiring to those who enjoy theorizing and exploring reality.
Rating: 5 / 5