Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End

Tesla led a difficult life to make ours less difficult. Tesla brought us alternating current, neon lights, hydroelectric energy, radar, remote control, wireless communication and the modern electric motor. Another great hourly history.

Tesla was a brilliant engineer. It is a crying shame that so many of his ideas were stolen and it was the thief's that made the profits. The main perpetrators being the major electrical companies in the US who could not invent these things but could use the courts to get the inventions that only Tesla could have invented.
An excellent insight into an "Electrical Genius".TheThe

I found this book fascinating and truly enlightening - I now understand, albeit on a simplistic level, the science behind some of the most used features of our daily lives. It's sad to know that he died penniless while some household names took advantage of his unscrupulous nature.

First book which cover Tesla's life from beginning to the end. I learned a !of of facts about Tesla in school but am happy to learn more about his years in America. One thing l must point out is that Tesla never lived in Serbija,he was born in Croatia,not even shore that he ever visited Serbija.Balkan politics is a quite complicated and is not subject of this book review.

I read this short but comprehensive review of Teslas live whilst having my morning coffee. I found it very informative and interesting. Anyone interested in inventions and inventing would be well served to be inspired by this man's life.

Please change the beginning to read the following so that I can increase rating since white lie is still a lie:
Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village Smiljan, Lika county, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856.His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was an Eastern Orthodox priest, more specifically Serbian Orthodox priest.