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 the "facts", but they are wrong.
One man alone dreamt up these things: Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, who also invented inter alia the fluorescent light, seismology and a worldwide data communication network which prefigured the internet. He is without doubt this century's greatest unsung scientific hero.
Using Tesla's own writings, contemporary records and recently released FBI files, this incredible story pieces together for the first time the true extent of Tesla's scientific genius, the story behind his tragic personal commercial disasters and the amazing tale of how his name came to be so widely forgotten.
