The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

By Tesla, Nikola

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Title:	The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
Author:	Tesla, Nikola
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. My Early Life The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment; so much, that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, 1 -- Nikola Tesla, 1 -- Chapter 1: My Early Life, 1 -- Chapter 2, 6 -- Chapter 3, 10 -- Chapter 4: The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, 15 -- Chapter 5, 19 -- Chapter 6, 24 -- The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla -- i