The Truth About Tesla

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The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

By Christopher Cooper

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The Truth About Tesla by Christopher Cooper delves into the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla, offering insights into the myths and facts surrounding his legacy. It explores Tesla’s contributions to electricity and technology, dispelling common misconceptions and highlighting his often overlooked brilliance. Through a blend of historical context and personal anecdotes, the book provides a nuanced portrait of Tesla's extraordinary impact on science and innovation.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by the life and innovations of Nikola Tesla, as it explores the myths and facts surrounding his contributions to modern science and technology. Ideal for readers interested in historical figures who have pushed the boundaries of invention, it provides insights into Tesla's visionary work and lasting impact on the scientific world.

The Truth About Tesla

The Truth About Tesla is one of the first books to set the record straight, tracing the origin of Tesla's "genius" to scientists and ideas that far predated him.

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Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. The Truth About Tesla sets the record straight.

Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, this engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, with his contributions to humanity obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or outright stole his patents. Recently, the historical record has been "corrected," and Tesla has been restored to his rightful place among historical luminaries like Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Gugliemo Marconi.

Most biographies repeat the familiar account of Tesla's life, including his invention of alternating current, his falling out with Edison, how he lost billions in patent royalties to Westinghouse, and his fight to prove that Marconi stole 13 of his patents to "invent" radio. But what really happened?

Consider this: Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Newly uncovered information proves that the popular account of Tesla's life is itself very flawed. In The Truth About Tesla, Christopher Cooper sets out to prove that the conventional story not only oversimplifies history, it denies credit to some of the true inventors behind many of the groundbreaking technologies now attributed to Tesla and perpetuates a misunderstanding about the process of innovation itself.

Are you positive that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Are you sure the Wright Brothers were the first in flight? Think again! With a provocative foreword by Tesla biographer Marc J. Seifer, The Truth About Tesla is one of the first books to set the record straight, tracing the origin of some of the greatest electrical inventions to a coterie of colourful characters that conventional history has all but forgotten.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780785840596

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Chartwell Books Inc.,U.S.

Illustration: color & b-w photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 912g

Pages: 200

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Biography & Memoir Christopher Cooper Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Political Biographies Science & Nature Science & Technology Biographies

About the Author

Christopher Cooper is an acknowledged expert on energy and environmental policy. He holds a J.D. in energy law from Vermont Law School and a Master's Degree in communication from the University of Miami. Former Senior Fellow at the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Cooper has traveled the globe analyzing the most effective methods of harnessing the sun's energy-from solar towers in South Korea to massive photovoltaic arrays in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. He writes about the history of science and technology, with an emphasis on the adoption of electricity innovations. Among his other books are The Governance of Energy Megaprojects and Our Sun: Biography of a Star.