Tesla

Man Out of Time

Paperback, 400 pages

English language

Published Oct. 2, 2001 by Touchstone.

ISBN:
978-0-7432-1536-7
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3 stars (5 reviews)

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Review of 'Tesla' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Wanted to read this in July 2013 and finally made good on it. It may take a while but the "To Be Read" mountain does decrease.

"The present is theirs, the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

To put it simply: Tesla did a lot. He was always working on something, improving an idea, creating patents and theorizing on the future. At times the scope of what he worked on was overwhelming. Unfortunately I feel that the delivery in this book was a burden and detracted from appreciating it all.

I read this slower than I typically do and at times it was a chore to continue reading. Tesla was a busy man and connecting one idea to the other could be a challenge for any author so perhaps this is a downside of summarizing a full life down to a few hundred pages.

Years later Pond was …

Review of 'Tesla' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I am a huge fan of Tesla. Whenever someone cannot comprehend how visionaries like Galileo or Copernicus where tormented for being "ahead of their time" all one has to do is look at Tesla's life for an example as to how it can happen. It wasn't until after his death that it was actually proved he was the true inventor of radio.

Unfortunately, Cheney's unbridled love/adoration for Telsa severely mars an otherwise well researched treatise. I've never read a biography where so many sentences begin with "I think..." and "It is obvious...". She doesn't know what Tesla thought/felt any more than his other biographers. And while history continues to find fault with Edison there is no reason to think him an idiot or an unworthy adversary for Tesla.

People seem to forget that Tesla, to his dying day, did not believe in the power of the atom (he was certain …

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