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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
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Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

Icon Books, 2019 Mehr


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Well Structured
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Nikola Tesla’s reputation has long outlived him and, if anything, has grown in recent years. Professor Iwan Rhys Morus’s biography is a valuable and readable addition to the literature on Tesla, linking his successes and failures to the cultural values of the time in which he lived. Tesla understood the power of image and media in the United States, which he used to further his ambitions. In the end, however, Tesla proved unable to fulfill the huge expectations he created for his ideas about electricity. Tesla represents a cautionary tale of the solitary genius, and this may be a pertinent lesson for our own time.

Take-Aways

  • Nikola Tesla was born at a time of rapid technological change in Europe.
  • Public fascination with the promise of electricity was high.
  • The United States offered Tesla a chance to remake himself because it celebrated the self-made inventor.

About the Author

Professor of history at Aberystwyth University Iwan Rhys Morus writes widely on the history of science.


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