![]() ![]() My Inventions Part 3: My Later Endeavors. Teslas greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. My Inventions Part 2: My First Efforts at Invention Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics This LibriVox project returns to the original text and expands upon it through the addition of Nikola Tesla's own supplementary articles as they were published in 1919. 'My Inventions' is Telsas autobiographical legacy. This work has been compiled and republished as a stand-alone book several times under different names, but has been a cause of some controversy due to some versions deviating from the original text without explanation. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla TESLA, Nikola : The Inventions & Researches of Nikola Tesla Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions, which is an autobiographical account of Nikola Tesla's life and his most celebrated discoveries. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert My Inventions and Other Worksīetween February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And while they are both more stylish than me in their choices of home decor and clothing – I would say that they aren’t the kind of people who obsess over the upcoming fads and trends. I would say John is more easy going than Sherry. Let me be frank for a moment (you guys be Ron)…while they share some of the same qualities – they are definitely different people. So first I will answer their questions and then I will answer questions that you should have asked. Either that or you don’t read my posts…in which case, I don’t blame ya. ![]() I was gonna give you the low down on John and Sherry…but apparently you don’t have that many questions. And then I opened the floor for a bit of nosiness to you. In fact, all I did was obsessively observe when they came to visit. And I didn’t actually go inside casa de Petersik. ![]() No breakin & enterin laws were broken with the writing of this post. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not long afterward, he alighted in Athens, visited the Acropolis, made his way to the port of Piraeus, boarded a ferry, and disembarked at the island of Hydra. The teller said that he had just returned from a trip to Greece. After weeks of cold and rain, he wandered into a bank and asked the teller about his deep suntan. An English dentist had just yanked one of his wisdom teeth. ![]() In a letter to his publisher, he said that he was out to reach “inner-directed adolescents, lovers in all degrees of anguish, disappointed Platonists, pornography-peepers, hair-handed monks and Popists.”Ĭohen was growing weary of London’s rising damp and its gray skies. Even before he had much of an audience, he had a distinct idea of the audience he wanted. He was a bohemian with a cushion whose first purchases in London were an Olivetti typewriter and a blue raincoat at Burberry. Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself. In those days, he was a Jamesian Jew, the provincial abroad, a refugee from the Montreal literary scene. This was 1960, long before he played the festival at the Isle of Wight in front of six hundred thousand people. He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. When Leonard Cohen was twenty-five, he was living in London, sitting in cold rooms writing sad poems. Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker Leonard Cohen at home in Los Angeles in September, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a hike into the wildness, Barry forces his blue-collar buddy to swear a blood oath never to reveal this secret spot to anyone. There are parallels between this story and Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Into the Wild, as the novel relates the life and death of John William Barry, whose mother and father come from two of Seattle’s wealthiest families, but who forsakes his elite destiny to achieve posthumous notoriety as “the hermit of the Hoh.” What distinguishes Guterson’s novel is the narrative voice of Neil Countryman (perhaps an unfortunate surname), who has been Barry’s best and maybe only friend since the two competed at a track meet. Once again, Guterson ( Our Lady of the Forest, 2003, etc.) writes of the natural splendor of his native Pacific Northwest, though the ambiguity of isolating oneself in nature, rejecting family and society in the process, provides a tension that powers the narrative momentum to the final pages. In this philosophically provocative and psychologically astute novel, two boyhood friends take very different paths: The richer one renounces all earthly entanglements, while the poorer one becomes unexpectedly wealthy beyond imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s an irresistible charmer, and before long Amber is wondering if this sexy hockey player is the perfect guy to show her some moves outside the rink.īut after all the medals have been awarded, Will and Amber will have to decide if what they have together is just a fling or a real shot at true love. She intends to win, and nothing’s going to get in her way–until she meets Will. Now she’s competing for the third and final time. He would love to show Amber how hot life off the ice can be.Īmber has skated her entire life, sacrificing everything in the hopes of one day winning gold. ![]() She’s beautiful, ambitious and driven–everything Will desires in a woman. Hockey is his life and playing for the U.S. Will “Mad Dog” Madigan is making his second trip to the Winter Games, and he couldn’t be happier. ![]() ![]() In the new Play-by-Play novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Score, opposites attract when a figure skater and hockey player lace up their skates–and go for the gold… ![]() ![]() ![]() And this cover doesn’t so much as hint at that. It devolves into a courtroom drama as the ethics behind producing genetically altered animals as a weapon of war are examined. Yes, Tchaikovsky writes some gritty battle scenes, but that isn’t the focus or narrative engine of this book. The genre it projects is dark, dystopian sci-fi horror – and this book isn’t anything like that. ![]() It is ugly, unclear and worst of all – completely misleading. Published in October 2019, by French publisher Denoël, I think this is cover is shocker. My niggle is that this book isn’t all about a pack of ravening beasts – it is a genetically crafted wardog that stands seven feet tall and the cover isn’t representing that content. The warm colours work well and I like the large, blocky title font. It is one of those covers you look at once, twice and then see something else there. ![]() This is the default cover for this book – and is clever and eye-catching. This offering was produced by Head of Zeus in November 2017. I’ve selected Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky – see my review. This meme is being nurtured by Lynn’s Book Blog and this week we are featuring covers with DOGS. This meme was started by Books by Proxy, whose fabulous idea was to compare UK and US book covers and decide which is we prefer. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you blew into the hose, the burning tobacco in the crow’s nest sent up a long column of smoke, and the boatswain went fweee! On his little pipe.” A long hose was plugged into the ships stern, and there was a black rubber mouthpiece on the end. The body of the ship was full of water for cooling the smoke, and up on the bow stood the tiny ceramic figure of a boatswain with his pipe to his lips. “The hookah was shaped like a Spanish galleon, and the crow’s nest on the mainmast was the bowl. In Bellairs’ New Zebedee death is not necessarily the end pictures can move and change in the blink of an eye, clocks can tick away time without being wound, and doom can be foretold by the formation of the birds in the sky. Tragedy and horror are very closely connected, and Bellairs deftly braids both themes throughout the story. Lewis is ten and has to move from Wisconsin to New Zebedee, Michigan. ![]() Lewis Barnavelt begins living with his Uncle Jonathan after his parents die in a car accident. T he House with a Clock in Its Walls is more Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci meets Edgar Allan Poe meets Roald Dahl’s The Witches. This is not your typical Goosebumps- style story for kids. Stoddard compared Rizzio to a purple- velvet plum spurting plum juice in all directions. He was reading about how the Scotch nobles had murdered poor Rizzio right in front of Mary, Queen of Scots. ![]() ![]() Here’s the thing: If I had kept with March at the beginning of the summer, I might have liked it more. ![]() I then read a couple other books, picked up The Underground Railroad ( review here), then The Nickel Boys, also by Colson Whitehead, and returned to March. I read the opening chapter and decided it would be a quick read, maybe something best set aside for August. March was the first book I picked up this summer. It was an uphill battle to enjoy this book on account of how much I dislike Little Women. It answers questions about what he did while away from his family and how he met/married Marmee. March, the absent father in Little Women, who serves in the Union Army during the U.S. ![]() March by Geraldine Brooks gives a personality to Mr. ![]() ![]() That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. ![]() Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. ![]() Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. ![]() ![]() Broadcasting since 1957, the Today programme attracts seven million listeners during its 06.00 to 09.00 weekday slot.Įvan has a knack for breaking down and explaining complex issues in business and economics in a way that can be easily understood by the average viewer, perhaps best demonstrated in his broadcasts for BBC News as well as the Evanomics blog series. Today he is best known for presenting the BBC’s reality business show, Dragons’ Den and hosting the Today programme on Radio 4, alongside veteran broadcaster John Humphrys. Like many of the country’s prominent figures from politics and journalism, he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, gaining a First, and later undertook postgraduate studies at Harvard.įollowing a period as an economics correspondent for BBC News and economics editor of Newsnight, he became the BBC’s Economics Editor in 2001, making him the most senior economics reporter in the corporation. “By studying economics and understanding economics more I had an outlook on the world that was, you can call it narrow, you can call it overly mechanistic, but it was an outlook on the world, we want our journalists to have an outlook on the the world”.Įvan Davis has taken an unconventional path into journalism, becoming an established economist before joining the BBC as a correspondent in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today and The Bottom Line. ![]() |