Tesla: Man Out of Time
- ISBN-10
- 0743215362
- ISBN-13
- 9780743215367
- Series
- Tesla
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-10-02
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Margaret Cheney
Description
Explores the life and career of the eccentric, trailblazing nineteenth-century scientist and inventor, the man who introduced the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science and who harnessed the alternating electrical current used today. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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