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My invention and other essays. By Nikola Tesla, Samantha Hunt, Penguin, Rs 863
At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla was for most Americans the embodiment of the inventor as genius. It was Tesla not Marconi who invented radio. In the essays in this collection, written between 1893 and 1919, Tesla recalls his earliest inventions (such as a delightfully bizarre motor powered by live beetles), waxes lyrical on the "exquisite enjoyment" of invention, tells how he was inspired to create his revolutionary AC induction motor by a passage from Goethe's Faust, and dreams of creating a superweapon so terrible that it would immediately end the carnage of the first world war.
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