Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World

by Elizabeth Rusch

Book Overview

Move over, Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla takes the spotlight in a biography of the man who pioneered modern electrical engineering -- and changed the course of history. When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks. By the time he was a teenager, he had made a vow: Someday I will turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity. Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763658553
• ISBN13: 9780763658557
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.9" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5