Robert Howard, The Uncelebrated Genius of Our Time

Online, March 2, 2010 (Newswire.com) - New York, NY - March 2, 2010 --The true "unsung" hero of the Century, Robert Howard is the ultimate entrepreneur, inventor and innovator. But you won't find one mention of him on Google or anywhere on the internet, although in his lifetime he has founded twenty-nine companies and has patents on dozens of inventions, many of which have impacted all of our lives.

But all that is about to change.

The previously very private Howard is finally going public with his gripping life story in a new book, CONNECTING THE DOTS, My Life and Inventions From X-Rays to Death Rays.

This captivating memoir sets the record straight, placing Howard in the company of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, recognized geniuses who shaped the modern world.

Still young at 85, Howard challenges you to imagine what life would be like today if television screens were still round. The first affordable rectangular picture tube was one of his earliest efforts. Cable television, now the universal standard, is ours thanks to him. X-Rays became more readable, phonograph records more listenable and computer printing faster and more affordable, all due to Howard's genius.

But the book is not only filled with technical and business achievements, it is also the fascinating story of a charismatic man who led a very sexy personal life that would leave most mavericks panting - and blushing - by the roadside.

He has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Tom Dewey, Howard Hughes, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Reagan and An Wang. One of the girls posing nude for his sister's art class, that he secretly spied on as a young man, turned out to be actress Susan Heyward. Not surprisingly, he got into trouble with his sister over this indiscretion.

His only public, but very significant, recognitions came from the United Nations International School on its fiftieth anniversary in 1997, honoring him as "the School's most generous private benefactor"; and when he was awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Gold Medal in 1999 by Benjamin Netanyahu.

When Kofi Anan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, recognized Howard, he cited him as "an inventor and an engineering-oriented, enterprising businessman. He is a pragmatic visionary whose technological inventions have been the forerunners of the established technologies of today...."

Upon receiving the Albert Einstein Medal from Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister of Israel, with his entire family present, Howard remembers that "It was a tremendously emotional moment for me."

An indispensable tale of invention in the twentieth century, CONNECTING THE DOTS is also the thrilling life story of a great American captain of industry.

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