Nikola Tesla
He Won the Current War. He Died Broke at 86. The FBI Took His Papers the Same Day.
工业、战争与变革
拿破仑在奥斯特利茨,林肯在葛底斯堡,爱因斯坦在黑板前,希特勒在地堡里。一百五十年间,蒸汽、电力、原子,接连改写了人类生命所能达到的极限——也改写了人类国家所能对其他人类做出的事情。这是那些将军、科学家、艺术家与暴君以第一人称写就的传记,他们亲历了人类历史上速度最快、血腥最烈、创造力最盛的岁月。
He Won the Current War. He Died Broke at 86. The FBI Took His Papers the Same Day.
Rejected From University Because She Was a Woman. Won Two Nobel Prizes. Her Notebooks Are Still Radioactive.
A Corsican Nobody. Emperor at 35. Exiled Twice. Buried in Paris.