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Nikola Tesla for Kids: His Life, Ideas, and Inventions, with 21 Activities

✍ Scribed by Amy M. O'Quinn

Book ID: 110705816
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 6 MB
Series: For Kids series
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780912777238
ASIN: B07HCV93RS

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✦ Synopsis

Finalist for the 2020 AAAS / Subaru SB&F Excellence in Science Book exemplify outstanding and engaging science writing and illustration for young readers
Nikola Tesla was a physicist, electrical engineer, and world-renowned inventor whose accomplishments faded into oblivion after his death in 1943. Some considered this eccentric visionary to be a "mad" scientist, but many of his ideas and inventions that were deemed impossible during his lifetime have since become reality. He is now acknowledged to have invented the radio ahead of Marconi. Tesla was undeniably eccentric and compulsive. Among other things, Tesla developed generators, fluorescent tubes, neon lights, and a small remote-controlled boat. He also helped design the world's first hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls.
Nikola Tesla for Kids is the story of Nikola Tesla's life and ideas, complete with a time line, 21 hands-on activities, and additional resources to better understand his many accomplishments.Kids will:- Construct an electric circuit

Explore Tesla's birthplace online
Investigate the nature of electromagnetic waves
Mix up batch of fluorescent slime
"Visit" the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Build a soda bottle submarine
And more!

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