Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah

by Nigel Cawthorne

Book Overview

Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current technology. Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was Tesla's AC generators...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078582944X
• ISBN13: 9780785829447
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Chartwell Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 10.5"