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The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid. Louisa, obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests, first catches sight of the hotel’s most famous resident on New Year’s Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man. As they share their mutual affinity for pigeons, Louisa begins to piece together
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Cousins Patrick and Beth travel to 1923 New York City and meet inventor Nikola Tesla. He might be able to fix the Imagination Station, but they must try to keep the machine's purpose secret. Then Patrick finds an old friend, Eugene Meltsner, who has his own secrets to keep.
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Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing ideas to America, despite the obstructive efforts of his hero-turned-rival, Thomas Edison. From using alternating current to light up the Chicago World's Fair to harnessing Niagara to electrify New York City and beyond, Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Remote controls, fluorescent lights, X-rays, speedometers, cell phones, even the radio -- all resulted from...
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"Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain...
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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 superpower the world had ever seen.
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Nikola Tesla electrified the world, but his bizarre vision of the future branded him as a mad scientist. A century ago, Tesla created energy-efficient light bulbs, foresaw today's oil consumption issues, and the need for alternative energies like geothermal and solar power. Can the keys to a brighter future be found in the long neglected writings of this discredited genius?
12) Tesla's attic
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A new house and a new attic hold untold mysteries for fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and new friends Mitch, Caitlin, and Vincent. The attic, it seems, was the genius Nikola Tesla's storehouse for his final invention, which needs to be assembled before use--unfortunately a garage sale scatters Tesla's individual items before Nick finds out. Now Nick must reassemble the items and keep them safe before they fall into the wrong hands.
13) Edison's alley
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Fourteen-year-old Nick continues to follow the pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter--the last device made by the famous scientist that will, reportedly, be able to give free energy to the world. Members of the shadowy group Accelerati are after the pieces as well, but Nick knows they will not use the device for good. The race is on to find the rest of the pieces, even as a dangerous electromagnetic storm is brewing.
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"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 communications. But his greatest invention was the AC induction...
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Presents a biography of Nikola Tesla, the man who invented radio, robots, remote control, and the electric induction motor and alternating current, which is the basis of the modern electric grid. Explores why Tesla has been more or less overlooked by history, aspects of his life that arguably makes him a genius, and highlights the quirks of his personality that made him an enigma--like being an extreme germaphobe and never shaking hands with anyone....
19) Tesla
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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. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...