Tesla Inventor of the Modern

Tesla Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson               Audiobook: 9 hours 10 minutes    Hardback Book:  320 pages                  

Fascinating look at a fascinating man.   I enjoyed this book from start to finish.   There is so much information here on Tesla the man as well as Tesla the Inventor.   I never knew he was a germophobe but here you will find what happened in his childhood to make him not allow people to shake his hand and preferably unless you were in his inner circle (he enjoyed the Café  Society of his day) he preferred people to come no closer than 3 feet to him.    He enjoyed chatting with women at dinner parties thrown by his friends and often requested that specific females be in attendance if the host/hostess wanted him to attend, but Tesla did not find relationships with women suitable for a scientist –women were a distraction from one’s work, he felt,  and he always tried to talk his male friends out of getting married so they could continue their work and better mankind’s lot.    The inventions Tesla came up with are seriously mind-boggling.   He was so far ahead of his time.    He understood and prophysized about internet type communications,  He could create lightning.   He figured out the principles of waves and understood how to replicate earthquakes.   He said he could knock the earth off its axis he understood the inner workings of the earth and its core so well but what would be the point?   I confess the things the man could understand and build and figure the mathematical equations of is so over the top and things found in his notebooks over a hundred years ago are just now coming into being.   Tesla was a phenomenon but without great people skills – he courted rich backers because his experiments and inventions were not cheap but he couldn’t abide them telling him what to do or to do other lesser things for monetary gain for them which is pretty much the only reason they would back him in the first place (what’s in it for me?).    So many of the wealthy set were so shorf sighted they saw only immediate profit with no long term support for further explorations to really let Tesla go and see what he could really do.   The man was the most far seeing far reaching mind of his time.   Where others went so far he went intergalactic and actually had evidence of contact with something beyond the stars.   Great book,  I am a Tesla fan and cheerleader and I was very pleased with this book, oh and though a gemaphobe, he loved pigeons, befriending them to the point he would let them fly into his hotel room at the Waldorf Astoria and allowed them to land on his head and arms and would feed them out of his hands.   Hey, we all have our “things,” and I suspect their gentle natures and cooing soothed his racing mind and brought his life to a calm place just when he needed it too.   I confess, I have a crush across time on this guy.   How fortunate those who were able to witness his workings in person.    I highly recommend this book.   If Tesla interests you at all – you will learn a lot of new things about his life and work, here.   Well done Richard Munson!

 - Shirley J