The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Lomas, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747262659 ISBN 13 : 9780747262657

Editeur : Headline, 2000

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Everybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric power station. Everyone knows these 'facts', but they're wrong. The man who dreamt up these things was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, who is perhaps this century's greatest unsung scientific hero. His story is one of amazing scientific triumphs followed by a catalogue of commercial disasters. This book tells for the first time the extraordinary tale of how Tesla's name came to be so widely forgotten.

Revue de presse :

'Robert Lomas is to be congratulated on an easy-to-read life of a tortured genius ... Although dealing at times with difficult technical concepts it never succumbs to jargon and remains intelligible to the informed lay-person throughout.' Times Higher Educational Supplement

Robert Lomas is to be congratulated on an easy-to-read life of a tortured genius ... Although dealing at times with difficult technical concepts it never succumbs to jargon and remains intelligible to the informed lay-person throughout (Times Higher Educational Supplement)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Headline
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0747262659
• ISBN 13: 9780747262657
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256