woah.......tesla might still be alive!!!!!! some people think that he invented a time machine or teleporter and faked his death!!!!! others think that he was actually a reincarnation of and atlantean! and my friend thinks im a reincarnation of him......

Impressive book, but not understandable outside a deep Electrical Engineer and Mechanical Engineering background. The additional content leans toward the mystical and fantastic rather than likely explanation of Tesla's brilliance shifting to imagination, which enabled the future-facing predictions to be inline with reality to some degree. I recommend reading The Wizard by Marc Seifer for a comprehensive and 5-star experience.

it was very hard for me to understand the drawings from the book. I have some electricity knowledge, but it was still hard to understand all the details.

The narrative was mainly drawn from lectures Tesla gave. So, we get to hear his thoughts in his own words. The addition of patent illustrations and photos were a nice touch. There are even excerpts of court proceedings wherein Tesla was the defendant.

The end of the book gets weird and creepo. Apparently the 'author' draws conclusions about secret societies, UFOs, and visits to Mars...This was a huge leap from where the book began.

This is NOT a biography of Tesla. I'm still on the lookout for a solid one of those.

Completely horrible book. I have no idea how anyone could have liked it. In many parts it is unreadable photo copies. The story line is meandering and repetitive. I am not sure how someone was paid money to produce it.

When I grabbed this book at the library I thought it would be good to learn about Tesla. I did not realize that he was the author. This book is a few of his talks and lectures and I didn't understand a lot of the technical info. What I did get was that this man has a fantastic mind, wanted to help the world through easily accessible and cheap/free electricity and with wireless technology. He seemed to love what he did and was excited about his work. I feel cheated that we didn't learn more about him in school and his forward thinking.

I read this book in 1996, while studying quantum entanglement theory, and it's still fascinating. Although this book can't lift the veil on every mystery surrounding Nikola Tesla and his life, it does a great job providing a little of everything, including providing several diagrams of his inventions.

Essentially a lecture by Nikola Tesla which is great but lacks the visible component which would have existed at lecture which makes visualizing what is being described a challenge. A good number of pictures but still a challenge in some cases.

A great book about Tesla and his many inventions, revolving around electricity and engineering... It is a testament to Tesla's greatness as an inventor.

Just got done with this. the first third or half is pretty interesting. Biographical sketch of tesla coupled with some of his own papers regarding his AC power system and schematics of some of his inventions was pretty interesting. Some of it, in fact, far too detailed to understand, but i appreciate it coming from him. The second half of this book or maybe the last third, sucks. It gets boiled down to a kind of conspiracy theory/sci-fi jumble where the editor basically shoots his mouth off and makes some wild conjectures with no proof. Further, the last 2 chapters seemed to be more about conspiracies of time travel and interplanetary travel regarding marconi and his limited exposure to tesla--that isn't cited so i'm skeptical--and marconi's inventions! ahhhh what a horrid way to end a book. Crap. I'd say, go read the papers of tesla and leave the sci-fi/conspiracy garbage where it belongs: fiction.