DESCRIPTION:
This is the most recent and largest of the Tesla biographies that has
been produced to date. The author gives a wonderful overview of the social setting in
which Tesla lived and of his contemporaries. The book will provide the reader an excellent
sense of the breadth of Tesla's achievements.
PUBLISHER COMMENTS:
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited by many as the inspiration for radio,
robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern
electricity. Yet very few people know about his life and work.
Based on original source materials and previously unavailable documents,
Wizard is the definitive biography of this founding father of modern
technology.
For the first time, Wizard reveals the details of
Tesla's struggles with competing contemporary inventors such as Edison,
Steinmetz, and Marconi and with financial giants like J. R Morgan and John
Jacob Astor, underwriters of his work.
An immaculately groomed figure, Tesla once lived at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York and dined at the finest restaurants.
Tesla's genius was challenged, however, when his peers vilified his
attempts to contact other planets. In the last years of his life,
unable to secure financing for his newest inventions, he lived in semi poverty
in a fourth-rate hotel.
Wizard brings to the fore the intriguing life of this
legendary innovator.
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