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008			150916s2015 nyuac 001 0 eng
020			_a9781631060304 (hardback)
020			_a1631060309 (hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)921216298
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn921216298
035			_aocn921216298
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082	0	4	_a621.3092 _223
100	1		_aCooper, Christopher, _d1944-, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe truth about Tesla : _bthe myth of the lone genius in the history of innovation / _cChristopher Cooper ; foreword by Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D.
300			_a195 pages : _billustrations, portraits ; _c26 cm.
520			_aEverything 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 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 foreward 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 colorful characters that conventional history has all but forgotten.
600	1	0	_aTesla, Nikola, _d1856-1943.
600	1	0	_aTesla, Nikola, _d1856-1943 _xInfluence.
650		0	_aElectrical engineers _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aInventors _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aInventions _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aLighting _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aElectric currents, Alternating _xPolyphase.
650		0	_aTesla coils.
650		0	_aElectrical engineering _zUnited States _xHistory.
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