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A review by brighroosh
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
3.0
I actually read a similar hard cover with an introduction by Ben Johnston. Goodreads doesn't have it listed. ISBN 0-76070-085-0
My book was a compilation of six magazine articles that Tesla wrote when he was 63 years old. Ben Johnston's 21 page introduction was very good at putting Tesla's writings into perspective, even providing a map of early Austria/Hungary and Yugoslavia the area where he grew up.
Tesla's many musings on his early life, rife with mishaps, influenced his ideas in different ways. Some of the recollections were funny.
He seemed partly to have a superiority complex, putting down stupidity, but also partly to show his lack of confidence until he got older.
The descriptions of his mechanical systems were over my head, but the introduction explained the applications many in use today.
His fantastical ideas for the future seem prescient, as some of those ideas, although in a different guise, have come true today.
An entirely readable book!
My book was a compilation of six magazine articles that Tesla wrote when he was 63 years old. Ben Johnston's 21 page introduction was very good at putting Tesla's writings into perspective, even providing a map of early Austria/Hungary and Yugoslavia the area where he grew up.
Tesla's many musings on his early life, rife with mishaps, influenced his ideas in different ways. Some of the recollections were funny.
He seemed partly to have a superiority complex, putting down stupidity, but also partly to show his lack of confidence until he got older.
The descriptions of his mechanical systems were over my head, but the introduction explained the applications many in use today.
His fantastical ideas for the future seem prescient, as some of those ideas, although in a different guise, have come true today.
An entirely readable book!