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The Accelerati trilogy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
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"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"--$cProvided by publisher.
"Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity,...
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Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"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"--
Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, pieces of his Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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"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...
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"This account of the inner life of Nikola Tesla is a work of speculative fiction that reveals a genius whose greatest desire was to share his inventions with the world. It offers a compelling portrait of his passionate side, especially his secret love for his muse Karina, a woman no one else can see. Tesla's love and obsession with Karina are the forces driving his work and motivating him in the face of a doubting world. Tesla maintains a loner's...
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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...
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Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has...
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Originally written in 1919 as a series of articles in Electrical Experimenter magazine, this book brings together Tesla's meditations on his major discoveries and innovations. The introduction discredits many of the myths surrounding the thinker's eccentric life.
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"Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye. This led to the last and least-known of all Edison's inventions, the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter rival, Nikola Tesla, was also developing at the same time a similar mysterious device. Edison vs. Tesla examines their quest to talk to the dead. It reveals: Edison's...
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 9
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A BRUTAL MURDER.
A SCIENTIST ON THE RUN.
A PLOT TO KILL MILLIONS.
While secretly researching the bizarre discoveries of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla many years earlier, physicist Claudine Pommier becomes the victim of a remorseless and cruel murderer who breaks into her Parisian apartment. Is he just a serial killer, or is there more to her death than the Paris cops believe? Maverick American biologist Dr. Roberta Ryder receives a mysterious letter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Nikola Tesla spent his spare time experimenting with electrical equipment. He worked for inventor Thomas Edison, and went on to invent alternating current electricity. Learn how Tesla's work eventually made turning on electrical devices as easy as flipping a switch!
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Viking
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[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"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...
16) Mirage
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Oregon files volume 9
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English
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In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax-- but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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You may have heard that Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio, but the inventor Nikola Tesla was working on radio technology at the same time! See how two invention powerhouses faced off in a race to create the first long-range radio.
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents the life and accomplishments of the Croatian-born engineer who developed alternating-current technology and invented the radio.
20) Tesla's attic
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Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
After their home burns down, Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. In the attic room, he finds a collection of old junk. After getting rid of them in a garage sale, Nick and his friends discover that all of the objects have extraordinary...