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

Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity

Plot

EVERYBODY knows that Thomas Edison devised electriclight, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric power station. Everyone knows the 'facts', but they arc wrong. One man alone dreamt up these things: Nikola Tesla, a SerbianAmerican scientist, who also invented inter alia the fluorescent light, seismology and a worldwide data communication network which prefigured the internet. He is without doubt this century's greatest unsung scientific hero. Using Tesla's own writings, contemporary records and recentlyreleased FBI filcs, The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century pieces together for the first time the true extent of Tesla's scientific genius, the story behind his tragic persona) comnlcrcial disasters and the amazing talc of how his name came to be so widely forgotten.