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. Reviews Robert 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."
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