The Greatest Geek
Richard Barnett: Nikola Tesla, 5 February 2015
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson.
Princeton, 520 pp., £19.95, April 2015,978 0 691 05776 7 Show More
by W. Bernard Carlson.
Princeton, 520 pp., £19.95, April 2015,
“... Over six feet tall and thin as wire, with Slavic cheekbones and a ‘Wild West moustache’, Nikola Tesla combined confidence and charisma with a gift for big tech, electro-prophecy and bullshit. He was a near perfect Thomas Pynchon character, and his cameo appearance in Pynchon’s Against the Day in 2006 confirmed his status as a counter-cultural hero ... ”