{"product_id":"tesla-for-beginners-robert-i-sutherland-cohen-9781939994486","title":"Tesla for Beginners","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate mad scientist, Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams--or still await possible development. \u003ci\u003eTesla For Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e examines the man behind the alternating current and wireless technologies who traveled from Serbia by steamship to arrive in the United States with only four cents in his pocket. It was in the early 1880s, at the tail end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution, that America beckoned him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikola Tesla--a poet of invention--left behind a vast and intriguing legacy. He was a scientist, physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, and extensively published author who spent his last decades scraping for funding for celestial projects and living out his final days in penurious solitude with a pigeon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939994489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939994486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e For Beginners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937688879359,"sku":"9781939994486","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2e7b63dd-afec-4724-8bb0-c9251a1e2773.jpg?v=1681431473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tesla-for-beginners-robert-i-sutherland-cohen-9781939994486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}