Contact Clock Question Basket Search User Store Facebook Mail Instagram Twitter
Free Delivery on Orders Over €30**
O Mahonys Logo Minimal - go to homepage

Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

by Iwan Rhys Morus

  

€ 16.25 

ISBN: 9781785785467

Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes.

Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number. His restless speculations and experiments about the way tomorrow would look helped to inaugurate a new way of trying to understand the future.

More than just a biography of Tesla, this book takes the inventor as its guide and follows him through the cut-throat entrepreneurial culture of late Victorian and Edwardian electrical invention. The book will explore the electrical future that Tesla helped create and the raw materials from which that future was forged.

240 pages.

Temporarily out of stock.

Currently not in stock but due shortly. Usually despatched in 3 to 10 working days.
If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete.

Date of Publication: 04/07/2019

Cover of Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future - Iwan Rhys Morus - 9781785785467Hardback
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future also appears in these Categories:

Popular Science

Cover of Braiding Sweetgrass Peek
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback
€16.25
Cover of Why Don't Rabbits Rule The World?
Why Don't Rabbits Rule The World?
Ben Sparks
Paperback
€21.25
Cover of Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones
Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones
Dr Saira Hameed
Trade Paperback
€18.75
Cover of Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science
Gribbin, John Gribbin & Mary
Paperback
€13.75
Cover of Dangerous Miracle Peek
Dangerous Miracle
Liam Shaw
Trade Paperback
€21.25
Cover of The Secret Life of Equations
The Secret Life of Equations
Richard Cochrane
Paperback
€16.25
Cover of Processed: How the Processed Meat Industry is Killing Us with the Food we Love
Processed: How the Processed Meat Industry is Killing Us with the Food we Love
Lucie Morris-Marr
Trade Paperback
€19.99
Cover of Simply Physics: Facts Made Fast Peek
Simply Physics: Facts Made Fast
DK
Hardback
€18.75
Cover of Nine Musings on Time 27% off
Nine Musings on Time
John Gribbin
Hardback
€9.99
Cover of The Autistic Brain Peek
The Autistic Brain
Temple Grandin
Paperback
€22.50
Cover of The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Paperback
€5.65
Cover of The Technology Book
The Technology Book
DK
Hardback
€31.25
Cover of Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 Peek
Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965
Frank Close
Paperback
€18.75
Cover of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
Mark Lynas
Paperback
€16.25
Cover of The Chip Age: How Chips Shaped Our Past and Will Define Our Future
The Chip Age: How Chips Shaped Our Past and Will Define Our Future
Rakesh Kumar
Hardback
€24.99
Cover of The Anti-Catastrophe League
The Anti-Catastrophe League
Tom Ough
Paperback
€13.75
Cover of The War on Science Peek
The War on Science
Lawrence Krauss
Paperback
€16.25
Cover of Thinking Small and Large: How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
Thinking Small and Large: How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
Peter Forbes
Paperback
€13.75
Cover of The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck Peek
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
David Spiegelhalter
Paperback
€16.25
Cover of This Is Life: How the Science of the Cosmos Explains What We Are Peek
This Is Life: How the Science of the Cosmos Explains What We Are
Christophe Galfard
Trade Paperback
€21.25