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The Nikola Tesla Treasury
Very Truly Yours, Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was a man of letters. He wrote many letters to the editors of the magazines and newspapers of his day. These letters give a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an eccentric genius. Collected here for the first time are more than forty of Nikola Tesla's letters. The subject matter ranges widely, as Tesla was interested in almost everything. In these letters he responds to Marconi and ... Full description
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Nikola Tesla
360 books1,430 followersNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
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January 3, 2019
Truly fascinating to read some of Teslas original works.
December 22, 2019
The Nikola Tesla Treasury
This is an extensive book (667 pages). Out of them, 600 pages are collections of Tesla's articles, lectures, and presentations heavy to read because Tesla is always intending to defend, rather than to expose, his theories on the use of the electricity. The latter is my reason to assign 3 points to this book.
Another fact that makes the book hard to consult is that the articles are not arranged chronologically and the table of contents does not include their publication dates, neither are grouped by subject matter.
I'm a great admirer of Tesla's works and this prompted me to buy this book He was one of the world's greatest inventors with ideas ahead of his time that would have solved the world's energy problems. However, it seems that he lacked business and marketing senses.
This is an extensive book (667 pages). Out of them, 600 pages are collections of Tesla's articles, lectures, and presentations heavy to read because Tesla is always intending to defend, rather than to expose, his theories on the use of the electricity. The latter is my reason to assign 3 points to this book.
Another fact that makes the book hard to consult is that the articles are not arranged chronologically and the table of contents does not include their publication dates, neither are grouped by subject matter.
I'm a great admirer of Tesla's works and this prompted me to buy this book He was one of the world's greatest inventors with ideas ahead of his time that would have solved the world's energy problems. However, it seems that he lacked business and marketing senses.
February 7, 2015
Probably my fascination with Tesla added to this book another star. But holy f*ck. Imagine person who basically created 20th century. Genius, inventor & he writes a book. Read through with incredible interest.
Thing is that, it's not only his biography, but also collection of articles he has published during his life. A lot of them contain technical terms, which means for a big part of book, you will need to have some technical knowledge. The most interesting part for me was his views on things, on world around us & also, how he became such genius.
Thing is that, it's not only his biography, but also collection of articles he has published during his life. A lot of them contain technical terms, which means for a big part of book, you will need to have some technical knowledge. The most interesting part for me was his views on things, on world around us & also, how he became such genius.
March 20, 2016
I'm not sure why this is classified as a biography. There is a small biography in the introduction, but the remaining 600 pages are collections of Tesla's articles, lectures, and presentations. Warning: if you are not an engineer or, at the very least, interested in engineering, most of this book will go over your head. I think the most interesting part of this book is how Tesla had to defend his inventions and theories on a regular basis. I would have liked to have seen the editorials the letters are responding to as well.
July 27, 2020
A serious tome collecting writing by Tesla. An inspiring resource, lots of strange and realistic ideas.
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