Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research

by Nikola Tesla

Overview

History is written by the victors. But that is no comfort to those crossed out by the editor's pen. For years, science textbooks equated electricity and light with one man, Thomas Edison, while the genius whose pioneering electrical technologies truly power the modern world languished as a minor note in scientific history.

Before the turn of the 20th century, electricity remained a mere scientific curiosity. Nikola Tesla, arguably more than anyone else, changed that. But Nikola's pioneering research in electricity represents only a portion of the scientific and technical innovations that elevated him to science godhood.

Tesla not only expanded and revolutionized the work of his predecessors, he also leapfrogged ahead of his contemporaries to the next step.

Nikola Tesla: My Life, My Research has three parts: Tesla's autobiography; Tesla's major research programs explained in simple words; and an eighty-page collection of rare photographs taken at several stages of Tesla's life; from his birth certificate, to the first photograph ever taken by phosphorescent light, to the last known photograph before Tesla's death, in 1943.

One volume: 336 pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500367558
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

Part I: My Inventions

-My Early Life

-My First Efforts At Invention

-My Later Endeavors

-The Discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field

Part II: Tesla & Science

-The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer

-The Magnifying Transmitter

-The Art of Telautomatics

-Tesla’s Oscillator and Other Inventions

-An Authoritative Account of Some of His Recent Electrical Work

-The Generation of Current

-Alternating Currents

-The Tesla Oscillator

-The Oscillator and the Production of Light

-Lamps With Buttons or Bars in Place of Filaments

-Light and Photographs with Tesla Phosphorescent Bulbs

-Light from Empty Bulbs in Free Space

-Effects with Attuned but Widely Separated Circuits

-Curious Impedance Phenomenon

-Lamps Lighted by Passed Through the Human Body

-Transmission of Intelligence by Attuned or Resonating Currents

-Disturbance and Demonstration of the Earth’s Electrical Charge in Tesla’s Laboratory

-The Magnifying Transmitter (augmented)

-Scrapping the World’s Engines

-Aladdin’s Lamp

-In Faraday’s Chair

-Nature’s Trigger

-Four Million Volts

-The Magnifying Transmitter

-100 Million Volts Possible

-The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

-With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun’s Energy

-The Onward Movement of Man

-The First Problem: How to Increase the Human Mass

-The Second Problem: How to Reduce the Force Retarding the Human Mass

-The Third Problem: How to Increase the Force Accelerating the Human Mass

-The Source of Human Energy

-Great Possibilities Offered by Iron for Increasing Human Performance

-Economical Production of Iron by a New Process

-The Coming of Age of Aluminum

-Efforts Toward Obtaining More Energy from Coal

-Energy From the Medium

-A Departure from Known Methods

-from The Medium — The Ideal Way of Obtaining Motive Power

-First Efforts to Produce the Self-Acting Engine

-Discovery of Unexpected Properties of the Atmosphere

-Wireless Telegraphy

-Development of a New Principle Communication Now Probable

-Transmission of Electrical Energy to any Distance Without Wires

-Mr. Tesla’s Announcements

-A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers

-The True Wireless

-Talking With The Planets

-Signaling at 100,000,000 Miles!

-Experiments In Colorado

-Terrified By Success

-Communicating with the Martians

-The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe,

-Origin and Intensity of Cosmic Rays

Part III: Nikola Tesla in Photographs