My Inventions

The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

By: Nikola Tesla

Narrated by: David Mitchell

Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Written in his early 60s, Tesla looks back on the events that shaped his life as the inventor of our modern world. Like many exceptional artists, scientists, and engineers, Tesla's senses and intellect worked on a higher level, which often afflicted him physically. Yet he overcame, and used his special abilities and strong educational background to make electricity the servant of man. He personally invented radio, AC electricity, remote-control, and initiated a plan for the first wireless network. He believed in using renewable energy, and developed the first hydroelectric power plants. And always, his altruistic goal was to make a better world for mankind.

Public Domain (P)2009 CoolBeat Audiobooks

I Liked this, it showed how unique Tesla was...

this is a great listen it is easy to believe you are listening to his voice.

some of it was over my head...
but I loved how he talked about the Unique way is mind worked ..
and his personal history.
I think he wanted to give us the web way back then...
I wish he had talked more about the challenges of Capitalism's deathgrip over his Ideas.

very enjoyable... I will listen to it again.
WB

Not a professional performance

Interesting book but was difficult to listen to at times. The reader was often too dramatic and read lines in a manner which leaves the listener annoyed. The worst part of this audio book was the incessant lip-smacking-wet-saliva noises which, with eyes closed, tricked me into believing that I was trapped in a damp basement wearing squishy socks and soggy boots.

pretty good. eye opening at parts

nice to hear it from Tesla , and it's also interesting to see how much of what he predicted is here now.

Too cool!

My man Nikola what can I say the dude modernized everything in our freeking world.

Modesty:not one of Mr Tesla's greatest attributes

8/10, fascinating chap beyond the ego. Tesla showing off the workings of his remarkable brain much like a proud gardener would a prize turnip.

Insightful and entertaining

Listening to Nikola Tesla's true accounts of his life, ideas and inventions by this narrator was wonderful. Much moreso than the printed word. It literally felt as though Tesla himself had read it aloud in 1919, and the audio merely filtered and enhanced in high definition, rather than read by someone else!

As for the text itself, I have read there are multiple versions of this particular manuscript, and there is really no way to tell which is the "least innacurate" without locating and somehow verifying the one penned by Tesla's own hand. That said, this version is highly enjoyable, read with fervor and inflection, down to the sighs of frustration surely experienced by the phophetic mind of a man at least a century ahead of his time.

Great Book

Very well the read. It’s always interesting to hear one’s perspective at that time period of which they live.

A true insight into a Genius.

I enjoyed this book immensely. I felt like I was sitting by a fireside listening to Tesla tell his stories. I think the book was well written it came from his hand and it was narrated very well..

Interesting but boring

This book is interesting but written in a very boring way. I found it difficult to focus for more than 20 minutes at a time.

Forgotten Inventor

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It is amazing to see what an impact Nikola had and scary how well he saw the future.