Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age | Bernard Carlson | Talks at Google
100Bernard Carlson visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss his acclaimed biography of Nikola Tesla. The talk focussed on the significance of Tesla's accomplishments in the context of his own time and today.
Bernard Carlson is the Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, where he also holds a joint appointment with the History Department. As an historian of technology, Dr. Carlson has written widely on invention and entrepreneurship as well as on the role of technology in the rise and fall of civilizations. His publications include "Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900" and "Technology in World History", 7 volumes. In 2008, the latter was awarded the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology as the best book aimed at a broad audience.