What a bizarre little book. Tesla has always seemed to me someone who existed in a space between our world and another unfathomable place, brought here by a glitch in dimensions or something. This loose memoir confirms my suspicions :). And not only because of passages like this: "I had a brother who was gifted to an extraordinary degree; one of those rare phenomena of mentality which biological investigation has failed to explain. His premature death left my earth parents disconsolate." No, it'...

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaBy: Nikola Tesla Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr. This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary.I have always been interested in Tesla and his life/inventions. He is very strange, intelligent, and someone far ahead of his time. In this book, Tesla tells all about what goes on in his head, which sometimes is very weird. He tells about his life, how his inventions came to him, and how his inventions helped save his life. He te...

More reviews at Bookish MuggleGreat book about one of the greatest inventors of all time. Sadly this book is "too" small and he just gives us a very brief glimpse of his inventions and ideas. I did not know many things about him before reading this book like: Tesla was involved in wireless research, Marconi actually stole the Radio idea from Tesla. I always related Tesla with alternating current and did not know that he was into wireless as well.I also liked that his main intention for inventing...

This has been very, very interesting. A book written by an undisputed genius in his very own words.I must say this book was a surprise. I was expecting lots of technical detail, but instead the book was filled with lots of interesting stories and insightful social comment. Some of the stories were even hilarious, causing me to laugh out loud a number of times.The book also gives some insight into what it's like to be a genius, and some of the abilities such a person possesses. For instance, draw...

Tesla has always been an inspiration for me from my childhood, particularly after getting to know his discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field. I cannot describe my extreme delight out of performing his experiments at home. And I am so delighted to read this book, because it surprisingly made me have a more profound understanding of his life and how he faced several breakdowns just because he was so ahead of his time. "War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed...

Read this on Graham's recommendation, and it was *fascinating* to hear it from the man himself. Tesla was famous for inventing alternating current (AC), which is used in every house and electric motor today. He was a famous scientist of his time, and supposedly there was some rift with him and Edison. It appears actually that Tesla sold his patents and the company that bought them sued everyone else, causing his name to be associated with the suits, even though he wasn't really involved. Tesla i...

Umm...I think I'm in LOVE with a dead guy! Seriously, Nikola Tesla is a pure genius and his intelligence far surpasses that of Einstein. I wish he would have written a book earlier on and since this was written in his late sixties and is very short, readers are left wanting more. Among many other astounding inventions, including building an AC motor, he came up with the concept of wireless communication in the 1890's!!! I was heartbroken when I read he died alone in a hotel room in poverty due t...

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a genius inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for designing of AC electricity supply system. He first caught my attention (of course as an engineer I had studied about the IS unit of the strength of a magnetic field named after him) in Nolan’s movie “the prestige” in which he was pictured as a kind of magician who could easily duplicate a cat or magically light wireless lamps. I wanted to know more about him and now reading his autobiography I find

I decided to flip through the pages of My Inventions after my dad enthusiastically described how engineers at McMaster university, following Tesla’s principles, had powered a fan using electricity that was transmitted wirelessly from one mini tower to another.Lacking a technical background, I didn’t think the book would capture my interest; but I was hooked from the very first page. Not only does Tesla share some unique observations of the world and his mind, such as his self-preserving device a...

Loved Tesla, hated the superficial approach. I would have liked to find out more about his life and career. This just felt like a small brochure. Informative, but definetly not enough for curious minds.

I didn't think it was possible for me to love Tesla more than I already had. After reading his thoughts in his own words, I feel that, in some way, I know him now and certainly love him all the more for every page. My favorite part of the book was Tesla's ranting about the wireless. Its potential was so clear to him. Freeing ourselves from wires, and harnessing the waves in the air around us, would not only lead to advances in technology that were at that time unimaginable, but for Tesla, wirele...

Nikola Tesla is a pure genius and his intelligence far surpasses that of Einstein. He traveled to America to make the world a better place, but America always makes sure to grind down anyone that cares for the betterment of humanity. He wanted to make free wireless electricity for the whole world, designed a laser powerful enough to destroy anything (he destroyed his design because he didn't believe humans could use it wisely), he game up with a lot of war patents that belong to the US today, ca...

4.5 stars.This was a very interesting book. Tesla was indeed a brilliant inventor and scientist, and after reading this book I can see how his brilliant mind, discipline, and vision made him build and imagine a world where wireless transmission of energy and flying devices would make significant improvements in the development of systems to make life better for humankind. While reading this book, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking how he would feel about seeing someone reading his own book in

The guy was a genius he literally predicted drone strikes i'm not kidding

I enjoyed this, if I was smarter I would've enjoyed it even more

An interesting man who had visions of worldwide, free, phone service. He invented so many things and was the worst businessman ever! He trusted people too much and they messed him over and stole his plans.Such a great inventor.

Collected articles written by Nikola Tesla about his childhood , inventions and family .

A few great essays and a quick read. The stories from his youth were laugh-out-loud funny. His relationships with his mother and father are touching and enlightening, and the first part of the book describes very charmingly and accessibly how to create a thoughtful, strong, productive character. The introduction by Ben Johnston very helpfully dispels some of the common mythology about Tesla with very specific information about how it was created. "The pressure of occupation and the incessant str...

Such a great man...One of most important I learned was he always tried to be himself, he found his primal inclinations/natural inclinations (as Robert Greene calls it in Mastery) early in his life by trying things, by reading a lot (he was really inspired by contemporary inventors and people working in engineering). We ought to read lot in any age and read widely because it opens up so many possibilities, a lot of people get stuck in certain profession or professional level and stay there foreve...

What a personality, rather bad ass, inventive, but with no business case skills. Excellent read

Nikola Tesla was a peculiar human being, an inventor, an engineer, a mad scientist, and most of all a visionary. The early 20th century was not ready for his genius. His biggest inventions (The Tesla Transformer, The Magnifying Transmitter, The Terrestrial Stationary Waves, The Tesla Wireless System) were the basis of many huge phenomena we're familiar with like the Internet, AC current, Wi-Fi and GPS. He knew his works were way ahead of his time yet he kept working hard to pursue his visions to...

An autobiographical telling of his early life, Tesla published chapters which follow his creativity & project. Given the method of publication was originally done via magazine, this book is very short & concise.My greatest takeaway from having read about Tesla through his own words is how wonderful it must have been to have known him while also recognizing that many would have failed to appreciate it at the time.Tesla is very pensive, self-reflective & self-critical. He spends a great deal of ti...

Such a bizarre book. Tesla was an eccentric and it's clearly seen in his writing. Incoherent thoughts, jumping up and down the timeline, unclear writing.Neither did he explain enough about his inventions in the book, nor did he speak much of his personal life.Was at least able to get through it in two hours though.

A very short book: a quick dive into the bubbling head of a genius.

One of my favorite INTJs..

As explained elsewhere, reviewing autobiographies, is different from reviewing the individuals themselves (read my review of Ford's autobiography). For instance, Henry Ford, the man deserved contempt (for the treatment of his son), but the autobiography was excellent. Starting with the autobiography, there are several paragraphs of advice and wisdom for both the individual as well as society. For the society, his advice on animal welfare, methods to ensure peace, poverty, food and energy scarcit...

Wow, Tesla was a helluva visionary :-3The hype seems justified (and he seems to be a bit of a braggart).He had and honed a marvelous (near perfect) visionary imagination in his childhood and was utterly riveted by experimenting with electrical machinery. While he's famous for AC power and the Tesla coil, it seems he was aiming to support an overall technological overhaul of the world that would deliver us to peace (for that shall not come so long as there is scarcity, distance, etc.)He was envis...

Anything by Nikola Tesla is 5-stars, although this autobiography is interesting in a lot of ways. The book is very self-promotional, but it's also probably realistic -- Tesla was an exceptional man. He has some good accounts of his childhood (barred from reading books by candlelight by his father, he snuck into the library and read using his own handmade candles...), unique way of thinking (visualization and model manipulation in his head), early commercial exploits as a consultant, and interact...

Interesting to get Tesla’s own words. An amazing man but this book is short and offers more personal details than real inventions.

Although the technical aspects of the various inventions and discoveries outlined are currently over my head, I benefited tremendously from Tesla’s highlighted robust imagination and work ethic.