03234cam a2200373 i 4500 296108562 TxAuBib 20160323120000.0 160114s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2015046032 9781631060304 1631060309 eng rda TxAuBib rda Cooper, Christopher, (Christopher E.) The truth about Tesla [BOOK] : the myth of the lone genius in the history of innovation / Christopher Cooper ; foreword by Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D.. New York, New York : Race Point Publishing, 2015. 195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index. Everything 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. 20160323. Tesla, Nikola 1856-1943. Tesla, Nikola 1856-1943. Influence. Wireless power transmission. Electrical engineers United States Biography. Inventors United States Biography. Electric currents, Alternating Polyphase. Tesla coils. Inventions United States History. Technological innovations United States History. Biographies.