Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and completed his doctorate there in the history and philosophy of science. He has published widely on the history of science. Recent publications include Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2017) and the Oxford Illustrated History of Science.
'There have been other Tesla biographies, but this is the one I
have been waiting for ... Tesla, he shows us, was - like his
one-time boss and rival Thomas Edison - inventing nothing less than
the electrified future.' -- Philip Ball, author of Invisible: The
Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to
life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum
of an era before world wars.' -- Nature
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