My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Author | Nikola Tesla Ben Johnston |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Autobiography |
Publisher | Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1919 (Original serialized edition) Školska Knjiga, Zagreb, 1977 ISBN 978-0-910077-00-2 (Paperback) |
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla is a book compiled and edited by Ben Johnston detailing the work of
Publication history
Tesla's autobiography was first published as a six-part 1919 series in the
The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla is the renamed Part One, The Life of Tesla by Tesla. The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla was published by Kolmogorov-Smirnov Publishing, and subsequently became the first online version of Nikola Tesla's Autobiography. It was transcribed by John Rolad Penner in 1994 [1] from a small typed booklet, then photocopied and stapled. The booklet includes no means of contacting the publisher, although the name 'Kolmogorov-Smirnov Publishing' appears after the title page. The only form of date identification is the hand-written purchase date: April 29, 1978. The text was first made available on GEnie in 1995 under the GNU General Public License, and from there, soon began to propagate onto the Internet.[1]
Although it is the first electronic version of Tesla's autobiography available online it contains many significant errors carried over from the original photocopied text. Online Internet scrutiny has subsequently revealed numerous omissions and additions that did not appear in the original serial text published in
The original six-part series published in Electrical Experimenter Magazine in 1919 has been republished in book form as: My Inventions, The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (Hart Brothers, Williston, 1983). A nearly unabridged version of My Inventions in various file formats is also freely available in electronic form at www.tfcbooks.com/special/mi_link.htm. It supersedes the earlier corrupted text.
References
- ^ The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla Internet search. Note: a number of these webpages still bear the incorrect title My Inventions.