Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents

Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is one of the first reference works to come out of Belgrade following the arrival of Tesla's inheritance in 1952. Here is a wealth of information in the form of documents drawn from the Nikola Tesla Museum archive, compiled into a single large volume.

The purpose of Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is to acquaint the reader with Nikola Tesla's most important works in the numerous fields of science to which he dedicated himself. This book contains two parts: lectures, and patents.

The first part contains five of the most important lectures of Nikola Tesla in chronological order. In these lectures, Tesla explained his achievements in the field of high frequencies and high voltages as well as high-frequency oscillators for electro-therapeutic and other purposes.

The second part deals with Nikola Tesla's 112 patents registered at the Patent Office of the United States of America. These patents are divided into select groups, each of which arranged according to its order of registration, and ranging from aircraft, circuit controllers, condensers, high frequency engineering, lighting, meters, motors & generators, power distribution, radiant energy, reciprocating engines, turbo machinery, to wireless technology.

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Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents

Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is one of the first reference works to come out of Belgrade following the arrival of Tesla's inheritance in 1952. Here is a wealth of information in the form of documents drawn from the Nikola Tesla Museum archive, compiled into a single large volume.

The purpose of Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is to acquaint the reader with Nikola Tesla's most important works in the numerous fields of science to which he dedicated himself. This book contains two parts: lectures, and patents.

The first part contains five of the most important lectures of Nikola Tesla in chronological order. In these lectures, Tesla explained his achievements in the field of high frequencies and high voltages as well as high-frequency oscillators for electro-therapeutic and other purposes.

The second part deals with Nikola Tesla's 112 patents registered at the Patent Office of the United States of America. These patents are divided into select groups, each of which arranged according to its order of registration, and ranging from aircraft, circuit controllers, condensers, high frequency engineering, lighting, meters, motors & generators, power distribution, radiant energy, reciprocating engines, turbo machinery, to wireless technology.

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Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents

Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents

Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents

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Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is one of the first reference works to come out of Belgrade following the arrival of Tesla's inheritance in 1952. Here is a wealth of information in the form of documents drawn from the Nikola Tesla Museum archive, compiled into a single large volume.

The purpose of Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is to acquaint the reader with Nikola Tesla's most important works in the numerous fields of science to which he dedicated himself. This book contains two parts: lectures, and patents.

The first part contains five of the most important lectures of Nikola Tesla in chronological order. In these lectures, Tesla explained his achievements in the field of high frequencies and high voltages as well as high-frequency oscillators for electro-therapeutic and other purposes.

The second part deals with Nikola Tesla's 112 patents registered at the Patent Office of the United States of America. These patents are divided into select groups, each of which arranged according to its order of registration, and ranging from aircraft, circuit controllers, condensers, high frequency engineering, lighting, meters, motors & generators, power distribution, radiant energy, reciprocating engines, turbo machinery, to wireless technology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789888412235
Publisher: Discovery Publisher
Publication date: 07/26/2018
Edition description: Eco ed.
Pages: 738
Sales rank: 658,907
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.47(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Lectures

1. A New System Of Alternate Current Motors And Transformers

- Discussion

- Tesla Replies To Dr. Louis Duncan, Explaining His Alternating Current Motor

2. Experiments With Alternate Currents Of Very High Frequency And Their Application To Methods Of Artificial Illumination

3. Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency

4. On Light And Other High Frequency Phenomena

4.1 Introductory — Some Thoughts On The Eye

4.2 On The Apparatus And Method Of Conversion

4.3 On Phenomena Produced By Electrostatic Force

4.4 On Current Or Dynamic Electricity Phenomena

4.5 Impedance Phenomena

4.6 On Electrical Resonance

4.7 On The Light Phenomena Produced By High-Frequency Currents Of High Potential And General Remarks Relating To The Subject

5. High Frequency Oscillators For Electro-Therapeutic And Other Purposes Patents

1. Aircraft

2. Circuit Controllers

3. Condensers

4. High Frequency Engineering

5. Lighting

6. Meters

7. Motors & Generators

8. Power Distribution

9. Radiant Energy

10. Reciprocating Engines

11. Turbo Machinery

12. Wireless

13. Miscellaneous

Patents Index

- Patents By Number

- Patents By Name

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