Demystifying Tesla: W. Bernard Carlson: Tesla: Inventor of the electrical age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, xiii+500pp, $29.95, £19.95 HB

Metascience 23 (3):649-652 (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) is surely one of the more remarkable figures in the story of global electrification. Rivalling Thomas Edison for the title of chief Wizard, both in his own time and ours, almost every invention of modern life has at some point been attributed to Tesla: from the communications media of telephone, fax, radio, and television, through the military utilities of radar and remote-control weapons, and (most plausibly) the systems of alternate current generation and transmission that power our world. And yet Tesla died impoverished and alone in a New York hotel room with his greatest plans for wireless power transmission abandoned and derided, if they were remembered at all. Tesla’s image as something of a martyr to an ungrateful world has indeed generated a cult following in recent decades, doubtless fired in part by the Serbian nationalism that has justly helped raise the profile of Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Marić (e.g. M. Popović, In Albert’s Shadow: The L ..

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,795

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The Archetypal World of Nikola Tesla.Sanja Ivic - 2013 - Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche 7 (4):48-55.
The Archetypal World of Nikola Tesla.Sanja Ivic - 2020 - Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche 7 (4):48-55.
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. [REVIEW]Peter J. Bowler - 2017 - The European Legacy 22 (6):742-744.
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. [REVIEW]Stanko Popović - 2019 - Journal of Croatian Studies 51:112-117.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-03-25

Downloads
23 (#949,443)

6 months
5 (#1,067,832)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Graeme Gooday
University of Leeds

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references