The first Ukrainian-language popular-science book on outstanding inventor Nikola Tesla will be released in autumn within LuckyBooks charitable project.

According to the president of the Ukrainian Physical Society, Professor Igor Anisimov, Tesla was not a ‘traditional’ scientist. He almost did not write scientific articles, remaining the author of patents. However, his ideas, expressed in the late nineteenth century, determine the modern world:

Unlike Edison Tesla was not a businessman. Although he earned some considerable capital, but spent it with no hesitation trying to test his ideas, and eventually, he died without paying off debts. At the same time, obviously he understood the meaning of advertising perfectly as he often performed on public, newspapers wrote a lot about him, and, in the end, in America (and not only there), his name became extremely popular. Today, ordinary consumers of information are more familiar with legends associated with him such as the man-made nature of the Tunguska catastrophe or teleportation of the American “Eldridge”. Instead, Tesla's activity filled the gap between science and production, which today impedes the technological development of our country. Therefore, getting acquainted with his lifetime will be useful.

The book of the famous Italian author Luca Novelli will continue the series of the publishing house K.I.S. about authoritative scientists. However, this time the books will be distributed free of charge: primarily among adolescents of vulnerable categories, as well as in libraries in the East of Ukraine, where there is a shortage of high-quality contemporary Ukrainian-language literature, especially in the non-fiction category. The founder of the charitable project LuckyBooks is the Foundation "I am Future of Ukraine" in partnership with the IT company Lucky Labs.

Despite a difficult destiny, Tesla has always sought to grasp new horizons of technological progress. During life he has patented about three hundred inventions around the world. His achievements in electrical engineering and radio engineering are used in a variety of modern devices. For me, Nikola Tesla is a vivid example of the one dedicated to science. He is a example for anyone who seeks not only to move along with the world, but also to move the world himself with own hands and intelligence, said Anton Ivanov, Lucky Labs’ project manager.

The official presentation of the book about Tesla is expected at the September Lviv Book Fair. According to the director of K.I.S. Yuriy Marchenko, the book's feature is a bright design.

The perception is facilitated by comics, and illustrations of paintings and engravings bring the reader to an old age. Novelli is not only the author of the text, but also the illustrator, so the result is surprisingly harmonious. Another lures are humor, irony, and dynamic characters. At the same time, the statement of events, the description of phenomena and experiments are accurate with neither unnecessary nor complicated details, and not simplified. 

Luca Novelli is the winner of many awards, including the International Andersen Prize in 2007. And his series "Flash of Thought" has been translated into more than twenty languages. Now the series consist of biographies of seventeen titans of thought. And there is also corresponding television series. At present, four editions of the K.I.S. publishing house have been translated into Ukrainian: on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei and Alessandro Volta.