About this title: This book is a readable and affordable collection of Tesla's patents, inventions and thoughts on free energy, anti-gravity, and other futuristic inventions. Covered in depth, often in Tesla's own words, are such topics as wireless transmission of power, death rays, and radio-controlled airships.
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Edition: First Stated Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited, Stelle, Illinois
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 351 pages with black/white photo illustrations. Condition is Very Good in a paperback cover. Edges show moderate wear. Used. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Small liquid stain at top edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. Contains: Illustrations. Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. Contains: Illustrations. Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. Contains: Illustrations. Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press). Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Fine Condition (Appears to be brand new! ), Original price of $16.95 (L2). read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited, Stelle, IL
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: Many B/W Illus. & Photos. Fine- 351pgs(Biblio) Pages at start of book have a slight crease, o.w. clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. ISBN 0932813194. read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near Fine. First printing.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 351 p. Contains: Illustrations. Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press). Audience: General/trade. 351 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs and diagrams. First printing. Near Fine. read more
Edition: First edition. First Thus; First Printing.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. First Printing. Trade PB. Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press). read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Pr
Date Published: 1993-08-01
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780932813190. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
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Description: Paperback 9" x 6". 352 pages. Very well illustrated with b/w photographs, diagrams and drawings. The bottom half of the front cover has been neatly re-attached at the hinge otherwise a very good copy. VG. read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Excellent condition. First printing. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Free track! Satisfaction guarenteed! Fast ing! read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press, Stelle Illinois
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780932813190ISBN:0932813194
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 0932813194. 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
"This book is amazing. Tesla, the original mad scientist, is depicted through his lectures, newspaper articles and other accounts. He was the creator of AC (alternating currents) elecricity which we still use today. Electromagnetics, Earth as a huge capacitor, death rays, UFOs, it's all here. It borders on metafiction in its accounts of his later experiments and modern mysterious phenomena. Part of a series, I definitely plan to read more."
"Aren't there any good books written about Nikola Tesla?? This is the second one I've read, and both have been below par. "Fantastic Inventions" has entire chapters consisting of Tesla's patent drawings, none of which I can understand, being that I know nothing about how electricity works. But even if I did, there are no explanations accompanying the drawings, so what good are they? Other chapters seem to be lectures or articles he wrote. The Appendix is a partial transcript of a trial -just the part where witnesses are trying to describe the conditions of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower before it was demolished. Some reprints of newspaper articles and photographs of the laboratories liven things up, but this books was very disappointing overall. I took out of this two things of interest; One, that in his article of March 5, 1904 (Electrical World and Engineer) he states "... A cheap and simple device, which might be carried in one's pocket, may then be set up somewhere on sea or land, and it will record the world's news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a huge brain, as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts." (Sounds like cell phones w/Internet access to me!) Two, that the mad scientist in the very first Max Fletcher "Superman" cartoons of the early 1940's were most likely patterned after Tesla, who believed that he had created a "Death-Beam" in 1934."
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