Lightning in His Hand: The Nikola Tesla Story

By: Inez Hunt, Wanetta W. Draper

Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons

Lightning in His Hand is a complete biography of Tesla's life, from his birth in Croatia in 1856 to his death in New York in 1943, with a special focus on Tesla’s experiments in Colorado.

After an auspicious early life in Europe, Tesla came to America and worked for a time with Thomas Edison, but their paths diverged after Edison failed to pay Tesla the $50,000 he owed him. Stunned at this infidelity, Tesla joined with Edison's rival, George Westinghouse, in the "battle of the currents", pitting Edison and his advocacy of direct current against the alternating current he proposed with Westinghouse. The winner (Tesla) determined which type of electricity powered the majority of America.

Well before Tesla came to Colorado Springs, this battle was waged on one important front in Colorado. Westinghouse, using Tesla's patents, built an alternating current plant to provide power to Telluride's Gold King Mine in 1891. It was an early victory for alternating current, and by association, Tesla's genius.

Tesla's fame grew over the next decade, and by the end of the century, he desired a lab of his own in which to conduct more advanced electrical experiments. The results of much of his research were spirited away after his death by elements of the US government and are rumored to have been used - in secret - to develop high-tech antigravity vehicles and other modern marvels.

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Tesla was a unique genius.

the story is a riveting look at that genius. wish Nikolai's plans had succeeded. It would be a different world

Well researched and interesting!

Being a n admirer of Tesla, I am glad I read this book. I am so glad I did. I just want to say Edison was a fraud and an Ahole the Nao of the first degree. I love this book and found it very interesting edit well researched and well written and the narration is awesome. I loved it!

Nikola Tesla

I have learned something about this man Nikola Tesla. He made many contributions that made life easier.

Nicely balanced

Nicely balanced personal and scientific life events and well explained their interconnection. It took me a while to get used to a narrator’s voice, and was disappointing that he mispronounced some words towards the end, but all in all it was ok. The book will be interesting not only to those who do not know much about Tesla, but also for those well informed as it puts all of the events in the context of the time that they happened in.

great listening experience

A wonderful story about a man in a world not ready for him to except him.