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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Transtrom, Henry L. Electricity at High Pressures and Frequencies. Chicago, Jos. G. Branch Publ. Co., 1921. (Includes specifications for Tesla coils.) (b)

Thompson, Holland. The Age of Invention (vol. 37), Oxford University Press, 1921. (Brief mention of Tesla, p. 218.) (b)

Wisehart, M. K. "Making Your Imagination Work For You," American - Phila., Apr., 1921, vol. 91, pp. 13, 60, 62, 64, 66. (Interview with Nikola Tesla, who tells story of his life. Describes method of work he has evolved.) (p)

"Story of Tesla Told," Minneapolis Journal, May 2, 1921. (From Kansas City Times.) (n)

N. Y. Times, June 8, 1921, p. 36. (Ad for Tesla/Waltham speedometer. Photograph.) (n)

"Who's Who in Radio - Dr. Nikola Tesla," Radio News, Sept., 1921, pp. 203, 258. (Biographical sketch. Mentions patents granted to Tesla in 1901 and 1902, describing a number of improvements in the radio art; one of these is known under the name of "tone wheel", and the other the "tikker".) (p)

"Messages from Mars Scouted by Experts," N. Y. Times, Sept. 3, 1921, p. 4, col. 4. (Marconi claims interception of messages from Mars. Tesla says this is radio undertones lengthened by interference from other waves.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Interplanetary Communication," Electrical World & Engineer - N. Y., Sept. 24, 1921, p. 620. (Letter to Editor Supposed planetary signals were interfering undertones of wireless transmitters. Refers to Century, June, 1900, Collier's Weekly, Feb. 9, 1901, Harvard Illustrated Mag., March, 1907, N. Y. Times, May 23, 1909, and N. Y. Herald of Oct. 12, 1919.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Nikola Tesla on Electric Transmission," N. Y. Evening Post, Sept. 26, 1921. (Letter to Editor. Claims of General Electric Co. in obtaining pressure of one million volts, per article in Sept. 21 issue, said to be the work of thirty years. Tesla cites his own patents in which this was accomplished.) (n)

"Tesla Air-Friction Indicator," Science & Invention, Dec., 1921, pp. 722, 775. (p)

"Construction of a Small Tesla Coil," Practical Electrics, Dec., 1921, pp. 75, 91. (Description of construction with drawings.) (p)

Slijepcević, Pero. Jedna posta kod Nikole Tesle. Narod, Sarajevo, 1922.

Beard, Annie E. S. Our Foreign Born Citizens. (Revised and enlarged by Frederica Beard) New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1922, 1932, 1939, 1946. (Chapter on Nikola Tesla, the electrical wizard. Biographical sketch, pp. 379-384, 1946 edition.) (b)

Morgan, Alfred P. The Pageant of Electricity, Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony. New York: Norman W. Henley Pub. Co., 1922. (Resume of Tesla's early work, pp. xxiv, 163, 166-168, 269.) (b)