As a dreamer and visionary, Serbian born Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), unlike most people, was able to bring his dreams to fruition. He described long distance electricity transmission, powerful motors, and labor-saving appliances, and foresaw and developed radio, robots, and remote control, not to mention cell phones, radar, laser weapons, artificial intelligence, the Internet, fax machines, and vertical-lift airplanes. He could develop complex equipment in his mind without models. Over his lifetime, he obtained some 300 patents. Obviously a master multitasker, he envisioned a revolutionary electric motor while walking in a Budapest park and reciting the poems of Goethe. With his eidetic memory he could recall images in his mind; while Edison sketched and revised, Tesla imagined prototypes. Tesla believed that inventing required labor, sacrifices, patience, and instinct, as well as isolation, because that is where ideas are born. His daily walking regimen, sometimes 10 miles was to bring more blood to his brain, thereby boosting his thinking power. Following his own advice, he never married, but came to regret that choice in his old age. Munson’s comprehensive biography covers the man and the superman. He discards the idea that Tesla was an extraterrestrial or a member of the Illuminati as some had promoted. Others labeled tried to diagnose him--at any given time he had Obsessive-Impulsive Disorder (OCD), Asperger’s, dementia, and even schizophrenia. Those who met him or worked with him revealed a mixed bag: He was criticized by some for being harsh, arrogant, egotistical, and lacking in an ability to work well with others. On the other hand, he was said to have a magnetic personality, and a quiet manner. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less