About the Book: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
First published in February 1919, 'My Inventions is an enlightening
autobiographical account of Nikola Tesla, written at the age of 63. One of the
most important technological innovators of the modern industrial age, Nikola
Tesla was a Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented
the rotating magnetic field, the root of most alternating-current machinery. He
also originated the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He
immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights of his system
of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse.
In 1891 he invented the 'Tesla