Nikola Tesla: Mi Vida, Mi Investigacion

Publisher Marketing: La historia es escrita por los vencedores. Pero no es confort suficiente para los que han sido eliminados por las plumas de los editores. Durante anos, los manuales cientificos han asociado la electricidad y la luz a un solo hombre, Thomas Edison, mientras que el nombre del genio de las tecnologias electricas que alimentan el mundo moderno permanece olvidado en un pequeno rincon de la historia de la ciencia. Antes de comenzar el siglo XX, la electricidad era una simple inquietud cientifica mas. Fue Nikola Tesla, sin duda mas que ningun otro, el que cambio esta perspectiva. Pero las investigaciones de Tesla sobre la electricidad solo representan una parte de las innovaciones cientificas y tecnicas que lo han elevado a la categoria de genio. Nikola Tesla: Mi Vida, Mi Investigacion presenta cuatro partes: Una introduccion de la vida de Tesla, la autobiografia de Tesla, algunos de los trabajos mas importantes de Tesla explicados de forma sencilla y una coleccion de cien paginas con fotografias poco conocidas realizadas en diferentes etapas de la vida de Tesla. Estas van desde su partida de nacimiento hasta una ultima fotografia suya antes de su muerte en 1943, pasando por la primera fotografia realizada con luz fosforescente." Contributor Bio:  Tesla, Nikola Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla started working in the telephony and electrical fields before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories/companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla as a consultant to help develop an alternating current system. Tesla is also known for his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs which included patented devices and theoretical work used in the invention of radio communication, for his X-ray experiments, and for his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. Tesla's achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous. Although he made a great deal of money from his patents, he spent a lot on numerous experiments over the years. In the last few decades of his life, he ended up living in diminished circumstances as a recluse in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, occasionally making unusual statements to the press. Because of his pronouncements and the nature of his work over the years, Tesla gained a reputation in popular culture as the archetypal "mad scientist." He died impoverished and in debt on January 7, 1943. In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term 'tesla' to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a comeback in popular culture. In 2005, he was listed amongst the top 100 nominees in the TV show The Greatest American, an open access popularity poll conducted by AOL and The Discovery Channel. His work and reputed inventions are also at the center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age occultism.