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Summary: Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary scientist whose greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SoHo Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci EngTeslaSummary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeCarlson, W. Bernard
Summary: "This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"-
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 TESLA, NICOLA CARRusch, Elizaberth
Summary: An introduction to the life and contributions of Nikola Tesla covers his innovations in the field of alternating current and his role in the development of such inventions as remote controls, fluorescent lights, and cell phones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TESSummary: "Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TESWestergaard, Azadeh
Summary: "Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the animals on his family's farm in Serbia. An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TESHering, Marianne
Summary: "Join Patrick and Beth as they unravel the mysteries of the Imagination Station. The cousins travel to 1923 New York City, the home of Nikola Tesla, a quirky inventor. He has the knowledge to fix the damaged Imgination Stations. But can they get his help while keepig the machines' purpose a secret? Or will Tesla figure out how to alter time and change history? Meanwhile Patrick discovers an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HerGigliotti, Jim
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the Croatian-born engineer who developed alternating-current technology and invented the radio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who TeslaSummary: Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's suprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TESSmith, Jeff
Summary: When Rasl, a thief and ex-military engineer, discovers the lost journals of Nikola Tesla, he bridges the gap between modern physics and history's most notorious scientist. But his breakthrough comes at a great personal price. In this twisting tale of intrigue and betrayal, Rasl finds himself in possession of humankind's deepest, most dangerous secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartoon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SMISummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012