Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83202 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
Explores the life and career of the eccentric, trailblazing nineteenth-century scientist and inventor, the man who introduced the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science and who harnessed the alternating electrical current used today. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Customer Reviews

There are two sides to every coin
To be honest I found this book very frustrating, the narrative jumps around spending ages in one place then practically skipping the next, the pace is totally uneven.

Also, the author seems more keen to perpetuate the mythos surrounding Tesla rather than document his story. The book is full of 'examples' of how Tesla was the first to invent everything based on nothing more than a passing reference in a tertiary level source. The quality of the history in this book is mediocre at best.

This book will continue to sell well as there is little else to seriously challenge it about Tesla. I bought this book hoping it would separate the fact from fiction and the reality from the hype. Unfortunately, it does neither and just builds the fog of confusion around this fascinating and undoubtedly brilliant man.

I just wish the author had left the pro Tesla bias at home and written a good, honest, warts and all, biography.

Great scientist! Great Book!
The winners always write history. In case of Nikola Tesla, we all won but many of us do not even know about it. Recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the truth about the world around us as practically everything we see around us in everyday life has some connection with this magnificent genius. If Einstein had something to learn from him so can you!