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# The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity

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Everybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric power station. Everybody knows these 'facts' but they are wrong.The man who dreamt up these things also invented, inter-alia, the fluorescent light, seismology, a worldwide data communications network and a mechanical laxative. His name was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, and his is without doubt this century's greatest unsung scientific hero.His life story is an extraordinary series of scientific triumphs followed by a catalog of personal disasters. Perpetually unlucky and exploited by everyone around him, credit for Tesla's work was appropriated by several of the West's most famous entrepreneurs: Edison, Westinghouse and Marconi among them. After his death, information about Tesla was deliberately suppressed by the FBI.Using Tesla's own writings, contemporary records, court transcripts and recently released FBI files, The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century pieces together for the first time the true extent of Tesla's scientific genius and tells the amazing tale of how his name came to be so widely forgotten. Nikola Tesla is the engineer who gave his name to the unit of magnetic flux. The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century. Robert's biography of his childhood hero was launched at the 1999 Orkney Science Festival, where Robert gave a talk on Tesla in conjunction with Andrej Detela from the Department of Low and Medium Energy Physics at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubijana, Slovenia.ReviewsRobert Gaitskell, a vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, writing in the Times Higher Education Supplement, said:"Robert Lomas is to be congratulated on an easy-to-read life of a tortured genius. The book not only takes takes us through the roller-coaster fortunes of Tesla, but also has well-constructed chapters on the history of electrical research and on lighting. Although dealing at times, with difficult technical concepts, it never succumbs to jargon and remains intelligible to the informed lay-person throughout. Every scientist or engineer would enjoy this tale of errant brilliance, and a younger student would be enthused towards a research career."Angus Clarke, writing in the Times Metro Magazine said:"Nikola Tesla is the forgotten genius of electricity. He invented or laid the groundwork for many things we take for granted today including alternating current, radio, fax and e-mail. A Croatian immigrant to America in 1884 Tesla combined genius with gaping character flaws and an uncanny ability to be ripped off by everyone. This is scientific popularisation at its most readable."Engineering and Technology Magazine said:"This book is fun, which is not something one often says about engineering books...Tesla is most widely known for the magnetic unit that bears his name, but sadly little else. This book is a thoroughly entertaining way of correcting that injustice, a must for engineers, especially electrical ones."

Review: Easy and Informative Read - I am not one to read a book, like at all. But for one of my college classes, I had to read a book related to my field (engineering) and write up a report about it. This book was a very easy and informative read. The only problem that I found is that there are some typos in various places in the book, but not a huge deal.
Review: Amazing Depiction - This book was an amazingly easy read with very precise and condensed story telling of the man Nicola Tesla. Absolutely amazing aspects about his childhood and what affected him early on and throughout his life. Depicting as accurately as it can about how he felt and how he shaped into his older age. I especially liked how Mr. Lamos really tried to portray how it felt to be in the shoes of Nicola Tesla. He speculated how it might of felt to want to change the world and immediately be shut down because of corruption and greed. Lamos tried his hardest to make it a brief history of electricity while following Nicola Tesla and his actions. There were a few grammar errors within the book and weird flow that forced you to stop and reread some paragraphs or passages two or three times in a row. But in all was a great read. I got a short review of the history of electricity and how some of his major works work, which by all means was absolutely fascinating but threw me in for a real loop since I have personally reviewed a small amount of his patents of Tesla’s patents. This book isn’t something to read if you want a huge in depth knowledge of how electricity works, it is here to shine some insight on who Nicola Tesla was and give us a good read to ponder about him. I accomplished my goal with this book to find out more about one of the most interesting scientists I have ever heard of.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #933,571 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,766 in History & Philosophy of Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 517 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy and Informative Read
*by D***N on April 22, 2020*

I am not one to read a book, like at all. But for one of my college classes, I had to read a book related to my field (engineering) and write up a report about it. This book was a very easy and informative read. The only problem that I found is that there are some typos in various places in the book, but not a huge deal.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Depiction
*by J***E on April 4, 2017*

This book was an amazingly easy read with very precise and condensed story telling of the man Nicola Tesla. Absolutely amazing aspects about his childhood and what affected him early on and throughout his life. Depicting as accurately as it can about how he felt and how he shaped into his older age. I especially liked how Mr. Lamos really tried to portray how it felt to be in the shoes of Nicola Tesla. He speculated how it might of felt to want to change the world and immediately be shut down because of corruption and greed. Lamos tried his hardest to make it a brief history of electricity while following Nicola Tesla and his actions. There were a few grammar errors within the book and weird flow that forced you to stop and reread some paragraphs or passages two or three times in a row. But in all was a great read. I got a short review of the history of electricity and how some of his major works work, which by all means was absolutely fascinating but threw me in for a real loop since I have personally reviewed a small amount of his patents of Tesla’s patents. This book isn’t something to read if you want a huge in depth knowledge of how electricity works, it is here to shine some insight on who Nicola Tesla was and give us a good read to ponder about him. I accomplished my goal with this book to find out more about one of the most interesting scientists I have ever heard of.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Interesting person Nikola Tesla
*by T***N on April 11, 2013*

A great read for anyone who likes biographies and/or wishes to discover the early history of AC electricity. Good insights into Edison and Westinghouse and how GE evolved. Not too technical but enough to understand AC, DC, Volts and Amps.

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