Tesla, Master of Lightning

Tesla, Master of Lightning
ISBN-10
0760710058
ISBN-13
9780760710050
Category
Electric engineers
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Publishing
Authors
Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth

Description

A biography of the electrical engineer whose inventions included an amplifier, an arc light, transformers, Tesla coils, rotating magnetic field motors for alternating current, and others.

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