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Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the Croatian-born engineer who developed alternating-current technology and invented the radio.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gadgets and gears volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The daring and loyal dachshund Noodles, the boy inventor Wally Kennewickett, and his scientific genius family and staff of automatons join forces with Nikola Tesla to defeat sky pirates, cross Europe in a giant mechanical spider, and defy the evil Mesmers"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Join Patrick and Beth as they unravel the mysteries of the Imagination Station. The cousins travel to 1923 New York City, the home of Nikola Tesla, a quirky inventor. He has the knowledge to fix the damaged Imagination Stations. But can they get his help while keepig the machines' purpose a secret? Or will Tesla figure out how to alter time and change history? Meanwhile Patrick discovers an old friend, Eugene Meltsner, who has startling secrets of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age-Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse-battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The riveting nonfiction account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity."--
Recounts the scientific competition in the United States for the dominant electric current between Thomas Alva Edison⁰́₉s direct current, and Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse⁰́₉s alternating current.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
12) Tesla's attic
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, Wizard is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Wizard reveals the details of Tesla's struggles with competing contemporary inventors such as Edison, Steinmetz, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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...
19) Addition
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Melbourne, Australia, a neurotic, 35 year old woman who loves to count meets an Irish transplant named Seamus Joseph O'Reilly and with some gentle encouragement decides to give love a chance. Can she find a happy medium between her obsession and living life to its fullest?
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