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A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
February 1893, and before the National Electric Light Association,
St. Louis, March 1893.
Nikola Tesla's legacy lives on in numerous ways today - from the
electric car manufacturers Tesla to the Belgrade Nikola Tesla
Airport.
This book is a readable and affordable collection of Tesla's
patents, inventions and thoughts on free energy, anti-gravity, and
other futuristic inventions. Covered in depth, often in Tesla's own
words, are such topics as wireless transmission of power, death
rays, and radio-controlled airships.
The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind
the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.
Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age,
his lifelong feud with Thomas Edison, and his erratic behavior,
Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant and daring inventors and
visionaries of his time. "My Inventions" is Tesla's autobiography,
with meditations on his major discoveries and innovations,
including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmitter,
and the Tesla coil. This volume also includes three articles by
Tesla, as well as an enlightening introduction that discredits many
of the myths surrounding the thinker's eccentric life. This rare
window into the industrial age's most tragic genius will fascinate
historians, scientists, aspiring inventors, and curious fans
alike.
During the early twentieth century, the eccentric and brilliant
inventor Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development
followed for many years to come. This fascinating illustrated
record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his most famous
findings and theories, allowing contemporary readers to experience
the amazing range of his thinking. It includes lectures, articles,
and discussions--particularly those bearing on polyphase motors and
the effects obtained with currents of high potential and high
frequency--and gives us a rare glimpse of a genius at work.
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the
definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern
world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth
century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed
for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like
alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and X-rays,
and worked with innovators like George Westinghouse and Thomas
Edison, the once-celebrated Tesla was later largely forgotten by
history. This beautiful leatherbound edition brings together many
of the findings and theories that made this genius famous (and to
some, infamous), showing not only the scope of Nikola Tesla's
theories and inventions, but allowing contemporary readers to
experience the visionary range of his thinking. In addition to its
many detailed reproductions of Tesla's patents and inventions, this
highly collectible book includes dozens of thought-provoking
lectures and articles. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of
Nikola Tesla affords a rare glimpse of a true genius at work.
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American
inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and
futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla's
achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his
seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous.Although he
made a considerable amount of money from his patents, he spent a
lot financing his own projects. He lived for most of his life in a
series of New York hotels although the end of his patent income and
eventual bankruptcy led him to live in diminished circumstances.
Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but
since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a resurgence in
popular culture. His work and reputed inventions are also at the
center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to
support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age occultism.
In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and
Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term
"tesla" to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength.
In Collected Tesla Writings are over 70 scientific papers and
articles by Nicola Tesla and others about Tesla's work primarily in
the field of electrical engineering including; Famous Scientific
Illusions, My Inventions, The Tesla Effects With High Frequency and
High Potential Currents, and Death-Ray Machine Described. The
original images, photos and comments have been preserved. Nikola
Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and
electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth
of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the
modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla's
patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless
communication and the radio.
Tesla was not an ordinary scientist/inventor. His long life,
beliefs and unusual psyche are the testimony to his uniqueness.
Even today, there are fan clubs, Tesla societies all over the
world. Recently an electric car company, the Tesla Motors were
founded, bearing his name.I am intrigued and fascinated by Tesla
because of mankind's current crisis dealing with energy and the
United States energy politics leading the country to ever
increasing adventures and wars all around the Globe. Oil is
addictive substance to everyday life, especially if immensely rich
oil companies dictate foreign policies and renewable energy
research.
2011 Reprint of 1919 Edition. Published in six parts 1919 in the
"Electrical Experimenter" Magazine. "My Inventions" is Telsa's
autobiographical legacy. Long out of print, "My Inventions" reveals
how a relentless photographic memory and runaway imagination almost
fatally cursed his childhood in Yugoslavia. Tesla tells how he
willfully harnessed his visions to invention, yet never outgrew his
many bizarre childhood fears and compulsions. This is the famous
story of Tesla's Faustian quest for the electric motor the experts
said could never be built-a quest deep into his own unconscious
mind that nearly cost him his life.
THIS 88 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Inventions,
Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla, by Nikola Tesla. To
purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564597113.
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.
Part philosophical ponderings on humanity's relationship to the
universe, part scientific extrapolation on what technological
advancement might bring to that understanding, this long essay,
first published in Century Illustrated Magazine in June 1900, is
yet another example of the genius of Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA
(1857-1943), the revolutionary scientist who forever changed the
scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. From the
possibilities presented by robotics to the "civilizing potency of
aluminum," from a "self-acting engine" to one of the first
proposals to use solar power to run industrial civilization, and
much more, this is a wide-ranging but illuminating look into the
thoughts of an unsung hero of scientific philosophy.
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