My Inventions

One of the most significant and important inventors of the 20th century – indeed, of any age in history – is Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-born physicist and engineer who, like so many famous people today, credits his mother with his genius (the result of both genetics and an inventive environment). It is rare for readers to gain an intensely personal understanding of such an influential figure as Tesla, yet we have it in his My Inventions, which were edited together after six parts in an electrical magazine from 1919. His story, in his own words, is told with great sincerity and originality.