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Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla 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...
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[2021]
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1410L
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English
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Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works gives readers a compelling insight into the man whose ideas revolutionized the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, and who continues to be a source of inspiration for modern inventors. This volume includes Tesla's...
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2014.
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During the early twentieth century, the eccentric and brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This fascinating illustrated record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his most famous findings and theories, allowing contemporary readers to experience the amazing range of his thinking. It includes lectures, articles, and discussions-particularly those bearing on polyphase motors...
6) Mis inventos
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2022
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Español
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"Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) fue un profeta de la era electrónica. Sus investigaciones sentaron gran parte de las bases de los sistemas eléctricos y de comunicación modernos, y entre sus impresionantes logros figuran el desarrollo del sistema eléctrico de corriente alterna, la radio, el transformador de bobina de Tesla, la transmisión inalámbrica y la iluminación fluorescente. Las investigaciones de Tesla fueron tan revolucionarias que muchos...
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"Explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent..." -- Cover.
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Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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790L
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English
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances--journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor--home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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Originally written in 1919 as a series of articles in Electrical Experimenter magazine, this book brings together Tesla's meditations on his major discoveries and innovations. The introduction discredits many of the myths surrounding the thinker's eccentric life.
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Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has...
13) Edison's alley
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Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
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"Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind."--Publisher's description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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1040L
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English
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You may have heard that Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio, but the inventor Nikola Tesla was working on radio technology at the same time! See how two invention powerhouses faced off in a race to create the first long-range radio.
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Gadgets and gears volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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"The daring and loyal dachshund Noodles, the boy inventor Wally Kennewickett, and his scientific genius family and staff of automatons join forces with Nikola Tesla to defeat sky pirates, cross Europe in a giant mechanical spider, and defy the evil Mesmers"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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"Join Patrick and Beth as they unravel the mysteries of the Imagination Station. The cousins travel to 1923 New York City, the home of Nikola Tesla, a quirky inventor. He has the knowledge to fix the damaged Imgination Stations. But can they get his help while keepig the machines' purpose a secret? Or will Tesla figure out how to alter time and change history? Meanwhile Patrick discovers an old friend - Eugene Meltsner - who has startling secrets...
18) Nikola Tesla
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[2022]
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English
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Simple text and illustrations look at the life of inventor Nikola Tesla.
19) Tesla's attic
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Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
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"The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century...fascinating."—Scientific American
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be...
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be...
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