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In Search of Nikola Tesla - The Revised and Illustrated Edition (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
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In Search of Nikola Tesla - The Revised and Illustrated Edition (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
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This is an account of the author's investigation, on behalf of the
Canadian government, into the life and ideas of the eccentric
genius Nikola Tesla. This is a completely revised and redesigned
edition, with a new introduction by the former head of the Tesla
Museum, a new chapter and a selection of photographs of Tesla and
his work in search of the holy grail of electricity - the
transmission of power without loss. As a student in Prague in the
1870s, Tesla "saw" the electric induction motor and patented his
discovery, -the first of many inventions whose plans seem to have
come to him fully fledged. He worked for the Edison company in
Paris before emigrating to the US and battling with Thomas Edison
himself to ensure that alternating, rather than direct current,
became the standard. He sold his patent in the induction motor for
$1 million dollars to George Westinghouse, who used this system for
the Niagara Falls Power Project. Moving to Colorado Springs, Tesla
worked on resonance, building enormous oscillating towers in
experiments which still intrigue today. In later life Tesla became
a recluse, bombarding newspapers with eccentric claims, including
energy transmissions to other planets. Though he died alone and
virtually forgotten, rumours gradually grew that Tesla had made
further remarkable discoveries. In an attempt to replicate his
experiments, people still build Tesla towers and puzzle over the
possible link with low-frequency broadcasts which can supposedly
disrupt the weather and affect the human mind.
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