Tesla. L'inventore dell'era elettrica

Many self-described "Tesla Biographers" have taken a shot at writing a book that would be considered comprehensive and worthy of filling in the gaps of this infamous man's life, but none have done so as well as W. Bernard Carlson. If you are expecting a light, fluff-filled read about this important

I’ve reviewed two biographies of the engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla – Tesla: Man out of Time (which is good on Tesla’s odd behaviour but struggles with the science) and Wizard (which is a more rounded book, but is totally lost in the science, telling us that Telsa was close to splitting the elec Leggi tutto

Nunca tinha lido sobre o Tesla além de reportagens ou alguns posts de blogs. Acabei neste livro por ser a biografia mais recomendada e não me arrependi. W. Bernard Carlson é bem detalhista no livro, foi atrás de documentos históricos, das cartas do Tesla, patentes e muito mais material. E adota uma p Leggi tutto

This is an interesting biography of a very interesting man. It is also one of those books that kept swinging the rating pendulum back and forth from two to four stars, depending on which chapter it happened to stop on. I found the first chapters describing Tesla's success years incredibly dense and

Wow. This book is incredibly dense, academic, and filled with technical details. It is not so much an biography of Tesla as it is an academic review of his works. I was not surprised that it was published by a university press. Perhaps this started as a doctorate student's thesis? If I could give hal Leggi tutto

Interesting, but too often emphasizes the technical aspects of Tesla's work to the point of causing all but the most diligent to lose focus on where the narrative is heading. Probably a better book for those who already have a strong grasp on the scientific side of electrical engineering and who nee Leggi tutto

I consider finishing this book an achievement (still debating putting that to my achievement list). The author did his best to summarise the life of Nikola Tesla into one book in a way that it made sense. You can see that the author did a very detailed research and that he put a lot of effort into i Leggi tutto

The idea of how many stars a reviewer uses to bottom line a review is to convey how enthusiastically that reviewer recommends, positively or negatively, that book. In the case of W. Bernard Carlson’s Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, the four stars comes with some hesitation. Carlson works very Leggi tutto

While a bit technical in places, this is a well-written and interesting biography of a brilliant, albeit very odd man. The technical details would perhaps be more interesting to someone better versed in how electricity works, but they do function to display the author's interest in showing how thing Leggi tutto