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

by Amy M O'Quinn (Author)

Nikola Tesla for Kids: His Life, Ideas, and Inventions, with 21 Activities (For Kids)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: For Kids

Nikola Tesla was a physicist, scientist, electrical engineer, and world-renowned inventor whose accomplishments faded into oblivion after his death in 1943.

Tesla was undeniably eccentric and compulsive; some considered him to be somewhat of a "mad" scientist. But in reality, he was a visionary. Many of his ideas and inventions that were deemed impossible during his lifetime have since become reality. He was the first to successfully use rotating magnetic fields to create an AC (alternating current) electrical power supply system and induction motor. He is now acknowledged to have invented the radio ahead of Marconi. Among other things, he developed the Tesla coil, an oscillator, generators, fluorescent tubes, neon lights, and a small remote-controlled boat. He 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.

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Amy M O'Quinn
Amy M. O'Quinn is a former teacher and the author of Marie Curie for Kids. She is also a freelance educational writer who has contributed to Jack and Jill, Learning Through History, Guideposts for Kids, Highlights for Children, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, and Homeschooling Today.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780912777214
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Publication date
July 09, 2019
Series
For Kids
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF061010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
JNF051110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Experiments & Projects
JNF051090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Electricity & Electronics
JNF051140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Physics
Library of Congress categories
Biographies
United States
Inventors
Tesla, Nikola
Electrical engineers
Serbian American inventors

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