This story takes place in the Big Apple; A.K.A New York City. It starts by showing the life of a 80 something year old man, who just happens to be the inventor of the radio. He doesn't have the life that people would of thought he would have. He lives in a hotel room, and not a Penthouse either. Why is he living like this? Well, the 80 year old man, named Nicola Tesla, said that it was all because a man named Guglielmo Marconi stole his idea and told the world that he was the one who invented the radio. So insted of living the good life, Nicola spends his days cooing to pigions and even talking to them; like he can hear so well that he can hear the voice vibrations coming from pigions. In the next chapter the reader is introduced to a new life, the life of Louisa and her father Walter. Louisa is a grown woman who lives with her father in a apartment in NYC. Louisa works in the Hotel New Yorker; which happens to be the same hotel Nicola Tesla resides in. She discovers Mr. Tesla on her daily rounds as a maid and he facinates her. She found out about him when he was doing one of his experiments that sucked all of the power out of the whole hotel. That didn't make the hotel very happy, but he still remained a mystery to Louisa.
One night her dad tells Louisa that they have to go to this live radio station viewing which talks about science related topics. He says that his good friend Azor Carter is going to be on it and has invited them to come and see him. When they get there they find out why he is being interviewed, he created a time machine and it actually works.The book then goes back to the life of Nicola Tesla before he thought of the radio and how his journey first started. He first had to come to America and was requested by a high powered man from where he lives to go to Mr. Edison about his idea about the radio. Mr. Tesla comes across this idea when his ears become super sensitive to everything around him. Then he learned to accept it and saw the contraption right before his eyes that would make the radio work, an alternating current engine. So, Nicola goes to America and works with Mr. Edison for a while, but when he brings up his idea, Mr. Edison just laughed at him. This made him mad so he quite and insted went, i think to a construction company, and dug a hole for two years. After the two years a man called down to him to tell Mr. Tesla that Mr. A.K. Brown of Western Union Telegraph Comany wanted to start the Tesla Electric Company with him. His waiting finally paid off.
So far, this is all I know about the book, but I will continue on to find out more about Louisa and Nicola. This wouldn't of been my first choice of books, but as I read it, I found it actually really interesting. I have to mix the book genres up every once in a while, so I thought, why not give this one a shot. It takes a little longer to read then my previous books, but it is paying off in the end. Right now I feel really bad for Nicola, because he is just an innocent man who was robbed of his fame for the invention that he had created. I predict that Louisa will use the time machine and go back in time to find Mr. Tesla and then she will finally know why he s a little wierd. Then I think the two of them will become good friends. I can't wait to read more and meet the Guglielmo Marconi that stole all of Mr. Tesla's work.
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