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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

can become enormously large. These contemplations had a significant impact on his later discoveries. They led him to the idea of creating a massive electric flame from a tiny electric spark, much like how a huge snowball was formed from a small one. What he envisioned, he put into action. His electric flame reached a width of up to a hundred meters.

In observing, even in insignificant occurrences, one can discover profound truths.

Tesla, the Cunning Hunter of Crows and Mice

Mischievous children often invited Tesla to join them in bird hunting or to collect eggs from bird nests.

Tesla did not like destroying nests and killing useful birds, but he enjoyed catching crows. He felt no remorse for them, as he considered them pests.