Nikola Tesla Books
Introduction
Since the turn of the century--for the past 90 years, technical specialists have pondered Nikola Tesla's claim of wireless transmission of power. Recently, Nikola Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes: 1899-1900 (CSN) has been published by the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. The CSN has been given a thorough, critical analysis by James and Kenneth Corum. And yet, many are not only still wondering whether Nikola Tesla's wireless power transmission concept would actually work but, if so, precisely how.
This writer will not dismiss out of hand any conjectures that Nikola Tesla may have made on scientific and technological subjects. Many of these conjectures have proven to be correct years later. In this aspect, Nikola Tesla and Newton were similar. They both received their insight accompanied by mental 'flashes of light.'
"I simply hold the thought steadily in my mind's eye until a clear light dawns upon me." - Newton
In "Newton, the Man," John Maynard Keynes wrote,
"There is some evidence that Newton in preparing the Principia was held up almost to the last moment by lack of proof that you could treat a solid sphere as though all its mass was concentrated at the centre, and only hit on the proof a year before publication. But this was a truth which he had known for certain and had always assumed for many years.
"Certainly there can be no doubt that the peculiar geometrical form in which the exposition of the Principia is dressed up bears no resemblance at all to the mental processes by which Newton actually arrived at his conclusions.
"His experiments were always, I suspect, a means, not of discovery, but always of verifying what he knew already." (The World of Mathematics, James R. Newman, ed., vol. I-IV, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1956, vol. I-IV; quote at p. 279, vol. I.)
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