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Nikola Tesla is best remembered as the inventor of the AC induction motor and the three-phase system of AC power generation and distribution that is universally used today. Tesla is also remembered...

Build your own Tesla turbine using off the shelf parts. This book is produced because of the overwhelming demand for information on the Tesla turbine. Being a noted Tesla turbine builder, I have...

Ten horsepower to the pound of weight! Who could make such a claim? None other than Nikola Tesla. He was referring to his latest invention, the flat disk turbine. The year was 1911. Did he deliver...

The trend of modern electrical work is in the direction of high potentials. It has been only a few years since a potential of 2,000 volts was considered unusually high, but at the present time we are...

Named after the inventor Nikola Tesla, Tesla coils are electrical devices designed to produce high frequency, high voltage alternating currents. Originally, Tesla used them as power supplies for his...

This had its beginnings when I made my solid state Tesla coil with AFC in early 1989. I started to write an article on it but there was so much information collected that the article just grew into...

The Tesla Coil Design Manual has been written to supplement the information on Tesla coils given in the Tesla Coil Construction Guide . Note that this is a design manual and construction techniques...

The new Tesla Coil Construction Guide replaces the original Tesla Handbook by John H. Couture published in 1988. Because the handbook has proven to be so popular with Tesla coil builders as a...

The Tesla coil is a high frequency, high voltage, air core, resonant transformer. It differs from the more familiar low frequency, iron core transformer in many ways including the unique capability of...

Invented by Nikola Tesla back in 1891, the Tesla coil can boost power from a wall socket or battery to millions of high frequency volts. In this booklet, the only systematic treatment of the Tesla...