Customer Reviews

The Nikola Tesla Treasury

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Plus: The Treasury contains a tremendous wealth of fascinating information in a single book -- it's hard to put down!

Minus: It appears to be a scanned OCR version of most of the included documents, given the abundance and type of typos in the text - clearly it hasn't been reviewed before publication. It is also lacking relevant images from several articles, presumably also due to the lack of editorial review of the contents. Given the highly-technical nature of most of the contents, that really is annoying. Final short-coming: many of the included letters are replies to other people's letters which are not included -- making the included letters often hard to understand for lack of context.

This book is a TREASURY for anyone who wants to know more about his inventions and who he is as a person. I've read about many of his works and even several biographies. This by far is the best book I have read to introduce someone to his inventions as well as the influences that drove his relentless spirit to a life time of hard work. Mankind is only now becoming aware of his genius and the influences he had on our civilization. I only can guess about the yet unpublished works during the last years of his life. To see what he knew in the late 19th century and his devotion to discovery, I am sure, we will discover that he holds many of the answers for our world's energy problems today and held more keys to the science of quantum physics and the universe. Knowledge was this man's only satisfaction.

Not what I expected. This a book of reprints of Tesla's correspondence (mostly replies) to the technical community describing in detail and defending his inventions. Many pages of technical information, most of it over my head. At this point I have only read about 1/4 of the book. Although I am a fan of Tesla I am not an electrical engineer, so I am only giving it 3 stars for those of us who are less technically inclined.

I got this book for my husband. He's a huge Nikola Tesla fanatic and is studying all of his work. He says it's very informative and he loves it!

Nicola Tesla is the least known yet most productive inventor of American history. A great read and will enrich your life.