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Here's the Tesla collection you've been waiting for: 214 figures;
668 pages; and 107 articles, letters to editors, and lectures. All
the famous lectures and articles that you'd expect are here, such
as A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers;
Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Frequency;
Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and
Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination;
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High
Frequency; On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem
of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the
Harnessing of the Sun's Energy; and My Inventions: The
Autobiography of Nikola Tesla You'll also get his many letters to
editors, commenting on Marconi, Edison, and many issues of the day.
And if that wasn't enough you'll also get other articles that
you've heard about but probably never seen, such as Famous
Scientific Illusions; High Frequency Oscillators for
Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes; The Disturbing Influence of
Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; The Wonder
World to Be Created by Electricity; A Speech Delivered Before the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers; and Electrical
Oscillators. This is an amazing collection that will give you the
most complete look into the mind of Nikola Tesla, who has been
called the most important man of the 20th Century. Without Tesla's
ground-breaking work we'd all be sitting in the dark without even a
radio to listen to.
This is an excellent resource for those who wish to study about
Tesla's experiments. The notes are highly detailed, and clearly
show his attempts at transmitting electricity without wires by
means of his magnifying transmitter.
History buffs, science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone
who has ever dared to dream big will find the life of Nikola Tesla,
written in his own words, engaging, informative, and humorous in
its eccentricity.Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a
revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields
of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C
current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the
world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech robotics.
His discoveries gave mankind the television. And his dream of
wireless communication came to pass in both the radio and
eventually the cell phone. Yet his story remains widely unknown.
Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the
twentieth century. His writings have fascinated readers for more
than a century. No one has had a greater impact on the world as we
know it than Tesla. Without his ground-breaking work we'd all be
sitting in the dark without even a radio to listen to. Collected
here are Tesla's most important works including A New System of
Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with
Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to
Methods of Artificial Illumination; The Problem of Increasing Human
Energy; and The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. This is the Tesla
book you've been waiting for: with more than 50 figures this books
truly is essential. Get all 4 of these Tesla books in one binding
for the same price you would expect to pay for just one of them.
Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary
scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity
and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C current, powers
almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from
home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. His discoveries
gave mankind the television. And his dream of wireless
communication came to pass in both the radio and eventually the
cell phone. Yet his story remains widely unknown. History buffs,
science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone who has ever
dared to dream big will find the life of Nikola Tesla, written in
his own words, engaging, informative, and humorous in its
eccentricity.
Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to
our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder
than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we
designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the
forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered
incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is
hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future. Whence does it
come? What is it? Whither does it tend? are the great questions
which the sages of all times have endeavored to answer.
Modern science says: The sun is the past, the earth is the
present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have
originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the
law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our
doom. Lord Kelvin, in his profound meditations, allows us only a
short span of life, something like six million years, after which
time the suns bright light will have ceased to shine, and its life
giving heat will have ebbed away, and our own earth will be a lump
of ice, hurrying on through the eternal night. But do not let us
despair. There will still be left upon it a glimmering spark of
life, and there will be a chance to kindle a new fire on some
distant star. This wonderful possibility seems, indeed, to exist,
judging from Professor Dewar's beautiful experiments with liquid
air, which show that germs of organic life are not destroyed by
cold, no matter how intense; consequently they may be transmitted
through the interstellar space. Meanwhile the cheering lights of
science and art, ever increasing in intensity, illuminate our path,
and marvels they disclose, and the enjoyments they offer, make us
measurably forgetful of the gloomy future.
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know
certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The
existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being
moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is
life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia,
all force tends to persist. Owing to this universal property and
condition, a body, be it at rest or in motion, tends to remain in
the same state, and a force, manifesting itself anywhere and
through whatever cause, produces an equivalent opposing force, and
as an absolute necessity of this it follows that every movement in
nature must be rhythmical. Long ago this simple truth was clearly
pointed out by Herbert Spencer, who arrived at it through a
somewhat different process of reasoning. It is borne out in
everything we perceive-in the movement of a planet, in the surging
and ebbing of the tide, in the reverberations of the air, the
swinging of a pendulum, the oscillations of an electric current,
and in the infinitely varied phenomena of organic life. Does not
the whole of human life attest to it? Birth, growth, old age, and
death of an individual, family, race, or nation, what is it all but
a rhythm? All life-manifestation, then, even in its most intricate
form, as exemplified in man, however involved and inscrutable, is
only a movement, to which the same general laws of movement which
govern throughout the physical universe must be applicable.
A short time ago I had the honor to bring before our American
Institute of Electrical Engineers some results then arrived at by
me in a novel line of work. I need not assure you that the many
evidences which I have received that English scientific men and
engineers were interested in this work have been for me a great
reward and encouragement. I will not dwell upon the experiments
already described, except with the view of completing, or more
clearly expressing, some ideas advanced by me before, and also with
the view of rendering the study here presented self-contained, and
my remarks on the subject of this evening's lecture consistent.
This investigation, then, it goes without saying, deals with
alternating currents, and, to be more precise, with alternating
currents of high potential and high frequency. Just in how much a
very high frequency is essential for the production of the results
presented is a question which, even with my present experience,
would embarrass me to answer. Some of the experiments may be
performed with low frequencies; but very high frequencies are
desirable, not only on account of the many effects secured by their
use, but also as a convenient means of obtaining, in the induction
apparatus employed, the high potentials, which in their turn are
necessary to the demonstration of most of the experiments here
contemplated.
Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary
scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity
and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C current, powers
almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from
home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. His discoveries
gave mankind the television. And his dream of wireless
communication came to pass in both the radio and eventually the
cell phone. Yet his story remains widely unknown. History buffs,
science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone who has ever
dared to dream big will find the life of Nikola Tesla, written in
his own words, engaging, informative, and humorous in its
eccentricity.
A lecture delivered before the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891.
A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
February 1893, and before the National Electric Light Association,
St. Louis, March 1893.
Originally published in 1919 in Electrical Experimenter magazine,
here are Nikola Tesla's reflections on his early years and work.
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