Tesla
Book description
Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming, devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. It was Tesla…
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This book gave me an appreciation for how diverse learning and learning strategies are. By his account at least, Nikola Tesla was able to imagine—or dream of, I don’t recall—the design of an entire working machine, down to its tiniest details, and then wake up the next morning and build it. And it would work.
His approach was very different from Edison’s, whom he criticized as diligent but slow and inefficient. This made me appreciate both approaches to problem-solving.
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