Genius Inventor

In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title "father of television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Driven by his obsession to demonstrate his idea, by the age of 20 Farnsworth was operating his own laboratory above a garage in San Francisco and filing for patents. The resulting publicity caught the attention of RCA tycoon David Sarnoff, who became determined to control television in the same way he monopolized radio.

THE REPORT SAID: NOTHING OF VALUE. January 1943. Nikola Tesla is found dead in room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker, dressed in a pressed suit, hands folded, owing the hotel two thousand dollars while every light in Manhattan runs on his current. By nightfall the room is sealed. The government takes eighty trunks of his papers. He had been an American citizen for fifty years. The file says alien. The War Department gives one man three days to read a lifetime: John G. Trump, an MIT physicist with the right clearance and, the men who sent him believed, the right instincts. His report runs three ...

Leonardo da Vinci has become the symbol of Renaissance genius, but the real man was far more complicated than the legend. Born outside marriage near the small Tuscan town of Vinci, Leonardo rose from uncertain beginnings to become one of the most extraordinary minds in history. He painted some of the most famous images ever created, including The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but he also left behind unfinished monuments, lost murals, unpublished anatomical studies, impossible machines, and notebooks filled with restless questions. This biography follows Leonardo through the world that made...

What if the quirks that made you feel different were the very things that built America? Gilded Age Geniuses delivers hilarious, fast-paced, and inspiring stories of the inventors, business titans, and justice fighters who refused to fit the mold—and ended up changing history. Featuring lively true stories of Edison, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and more, this engaging nonfiction collection makes Gilded Age history unforgettable. Perfect for parents wanting to inspire teens, educators looking for engaging classroom reads, and adults who love ...

Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world's leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer, offers new insight into the brilliant scientist's particle beam weapon (aka the "Death Ray") and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures - including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Armed with unprecedented access to Edison's workshop diaries, notebooks, and letters, Israel brings fresh insights into how the inventor's creative mind worked. For the first time, much attention is devoted to his early family life in Ohio and Michigan, where the young Edison honed his entrepreneurial sense and eye for innovation as a newsstand owner and editor of a weekly newspaper. These experiences underscore the inventor's later successes with new resonance and pathos.

Tesla: The Man Who Saw the Future and Lived in the Shadows Step into the extraordinary life of Nikola Tesla—the forgotten genius who lit the world, dreamed of wireless power, and lived years ahead of his time. From his humble beginnings in a small village in Croatia to the dazzling laboratories of New York City, Tesla transformed electricity, wireless communication, and modern engineering. He battled giants like Thomas Edison, envisioned technologies that seemed impossible, and became a legend shrouded in mystery. Yet despite his brilliance, Tesla’s final years were spent in obscurity...

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of science. A brilliant inventor and eccentric visionary, his ideas were undoubtedly ahead of his time. His name today is synonymous with innovation. Yet he lived much of his life in poverty, feuded with fellow inventors and died in obscurity.

Earned a Booky Award for Most Witty Dialogue! A boy genius built the box. His family turned it on. Now the only way forward is through another world. Cage Withers has always been different. Brilliant, curious, and far too young to carry the weight of the secrets surrounding Walker Territories, he creates inventions most adults can barely understand. Then Cage secretly places an experimental device inside his father’s briefcase. When his family accidentally activates it aboard their float plane, the aircraft vanishes without wreckage, warning, or explanation. Cage soon discovers the ...

Ren saved the world. It cost him his magic, his mentor, and the only identity he ever understood. Months later, he's back in his father's repair shop. The clocks tick. The rain falls. His hands shake too badly to fix a child's music box. He's fifteen years old and the most ordinary person he knows, and he is trying very hard to be fine with that. Then Gray crashes through his door carrying an ancient key that's overheating, broadcasting a signal across the continent, and attracting seven-foot clockwork sentinels that are tearing up the town. Ren can't fight them with magic. He doesn't have ...

Thomas Edison was born into a hard-working but attentive family. He struggled in school and became deaf at an early age. Born on February 11, 1847, Edison would become, arguably, the best-known American inventor of all time. His invention of the light bulb was one of more than 1,000 patents he held during his lifetime. Others included the phonograph, the electrical grid, and motion pictures. His work changed the way we see and hear the world around us.

The protectors. They'll risk their lives to protect the woman in jeopardy. But will they risk their hearts? When the ex-wife scientist Colt Jarvis assumed left him for another man returns, his attraction to her flares. But he can’t trust her. During their brief marriage, she kept way too many secrets. She still does. For the past year, they’ve only seen each other during her visits to their children. Fiercely independent security expert Mirabella Jarvis didn’t choose to leave her husband and children. An accident followed by years of amnesia weren’t part of her plan. Slowly, she’s...

He has returned. And this time, there will be no mercy. Eighteen years ago, Robur the Conqueror terrorized the world aboard his aerial ship Albatross, demonstrating technological superiority that rendered all opposition futile. He vanished after that demonstration, believed dead or retired to some remote corner of the world. Now he's back. And he has built something worse. The Terror defies every category. It races across American roads at 150 miles per hour—impossible speed for 1904. It appears as submarine in coastal waters. It transforms into aircraft and flies with maneuverability ...

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize “Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this “provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar)...

Brought to you by Penguin. It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity - including his former...

Saving Mona Lisa is an intrigue of art, love, and Renaissance genius. The story is inspired by the nine versions of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa depicted on the book cover—the original, plus eight copies of dubious provenance. The mystery over who painted these copies still confounds art historians, as does the fact that Leonardo refused to finish the original or deliver it to its rightful owner, right up until his death more than fifteen years later. Just recently reported in September 2017, it has been determined by art experts that a nude sketch that bears a striking ...

Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, Nikola Tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating current (AC) and other significant contributions to science. His claim that “harnessing the forces of nature was the only worthwhile scientific endeavor" both impressed and enraged the scientific community. Eventually his peers could no longer dismiss his eccentricities and began to view him as a crackpot - a potentially dangerous one.

📜 The Geniuses History Forgot 📜 History remembers the greats—Einstein, Tesla, da Vinci—but what about the minds that slipped through the cracks of time? The Geniuses History Forgot uncovers 25 extraordinary individuals whose brilliance shaped the world yet never earned them the recognition they deserved. From overlooked inventors and unsung scientists to forgotten artists and revolutionaries, this collection brings their untold stories to life. Whether they were robbed of credit, ahead of their time, or simply lost in history’s shuffle, their contributions deserve a spotlight. ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions and fetched up in a strange new world. Now Nick Prasad owes his life and livelihood to the royal family that employs him as a prophet, even though they are servants of the Ancient Ones...

The purpose of these 50 one-page descriptions of persons of genius is to remind readers of historical persons who are worth knowing better. Each of these fifty geniuses is the subject of many scholarly books that are readily available on the Kindle as well as in our wonderful public libraries. The geniuses discussed in this booklet include: Moses, King Solomon, Homer, Confucius, Socrates, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, Justinian, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Louis the IX, Dante, Chaucer, Gutenberg, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Michelangelo,...