Tesla's cat (Il Gatto di Tesla)

This book by Monica Marelli is dedicated to the great inventor, whose whole life was connected with electric current and whose name was given to the unit of induction of the magnetic field. Tesla, and he was, was a man with some oddities, but he could solve engineering problems, but their commercialization was not his forte. In this book, journalist Monica and telepathic cat Sophie travel back in time. 90 years to interview Nikola Tesla and learn firsthand about the rehearsals of his history:

• how he ended up in America.
• how he worked for Edison and how it ended - a battle of currents. I wonder what in 1915 The New York Times reported that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. But none of them ever won a Nobel Prize. Both great inventors refused to receive this prestigious prize because they could not forgive each other’s past grievances.
• like Nicola in 1891 He patented radio, which Guglielmo Marconi turned into a commercially successful product and received all the laurels. How Nicola was obsessed with the dream of transmitting current wirelessly to any distance and where this idea took him.

In general, the book reads easily and pleasantly, and a complex theory is hidden in the discussions of the cat, the journalist and the scientist. Therefore, this book can be recommended to teenagers who like physics, but it is boring to read purely technical science.

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