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1) Tesla
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
The team investigates Nikola Tesla's final residence, The New Yorker Hotel, and find incredible evidence that it served as much more than a home to the controversial inventor. They also travel to Wardenclyffe, Tesla's infamous, abandoned laboratory.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of five renegade inventors and their amazing inventions – one using moonlight to cure disease, and another using diamonds to power electronics. These mavericks are not only changing the existing scientific paradigm – they’re overturning it.
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Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing ideas to America, despite the obstructive efforts of his hero-turned-rival, Thomas Edison. From using alternating current, to lighting up the Chicago World's Fair, to harnessing Niagara to electrify New York City and beyond, Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Remote controls, fluorescent lights, X-rays, speedometers, cell phones, even the radio -- all resulted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides [an] inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world"--Amazon.com.
11) Nikola Tesla
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continue to use today. Since he was a young boy growing up in the Austrian Empire, Nikola was fascinated by science and numbers. His teachers knew he had a brilliant mind, but Nikola's irregular routines and fondness for playing cards meant that he was kicked...
12) Nikola Tesla
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A graphic retelling of Tesla's story, which provides a colorful snapshot of his life and the world in which he grew up while exploring everything from alternating current to the power of the imagination.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Get ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola Tesla--part creative genius, part mad scientist, and 100% innovator. When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn't have much money, but he did have a letter of introduction to renowned inventor Thomas Edison. The working relationship between the two men was short lived, though, and the two scientist-inventors became harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of all...
Series
American Experience volume 0
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten, eclipsed by names such as Thomas Edison and Gugielmo Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity pulsing through his body, dazzled by the...
15) Rasl: 4
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Series
RASL volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel. When Rasl, a thief and ex-military engineer, discovers the lost journals of Nikola Tesla, he bridges the gap between modern physics history's most notorious scientist. But his breakthrough comes at a price. In a twisting tale of violence, intrigue, and betrayal, Rasl finds himself in possession of humankind's greatest and most...
Author
Series
Elements of genius volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears...
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Series
Elements of genius volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be.
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Series
Nick and Tesla volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In order to figure out why robotic versions of history's greatest scientists and inventors keep going haywire, siblings Nick and Tesla create a gadget glove.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the animals on his family's farm in Serbia. An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless communications. But his greatest invention was the AC induction...
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