Tesla

What This Book Covers

1. The Pigeon and the Silence
2. Chapter One - The Vision in the Lightning
3. Chapter Two - Edison’s Shadow
4. Chapter Three - The War of the Currents
5. Chapter Four - The Tower
6. Chapter Five - The Man Who Waited
7. Chapter Six - Echoes in the Machine
8. Chapter Seven - The Blueprint in the Mind
9. Chapter Eight - The Death Ray
10. Chapter Nine - How the World Rebuilt Tesla
11. Chapter Ten - Love, Light, and the Final Transmission
12. Chapter Eleven - The Universe Was Never Silent
13. Chapter Twelve - The Inventions That Slipped Through
14. Chapter Thirteen - A Field Guide for the Future

Excerpt

THE PIGEON AND THE SILENCE THEY FOUND HIM alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. A “Do Not Disturb” sign still hung on the handle. The maid had hesitated, as she always did. She knew he didn’t like being interrupted. But it had been two days, and the silence was too loud now. Inside, Nikola Tesla lay still in his bed, the windows cracked open to let in the winter air. He hadn’t died with machines buzzing or papers sprawled or that eerie flash in his eye. He had died the way he lived: unnoticed, unyielding, and utterly in orbit around something no one else could see. There was no chaos. Just a body, long and lean, curled slightly, hands folded as if he’d been waiting. On the windowsill,...