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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Tesla, Nikola. "Experiments With Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency & Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination, Electrical World - N. Y., July 11, 1891, pp. 19-27. (Text of Tesla lecture in full.) (p)

"Tesla's research in Rapid Alternation at High Tension," Electrical Review - N. Y., July 11, 1891, p. 262. (Editorial comments.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Experiments With Currents of High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination," Electrical Review N. Y., July 11, 1891, pp. 264-269. (Text of lecture before the American Inst. of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, May 20, 1891.) (p)

"Tesla's Method of Operating Alternate Current Motors With Condensers," Electrical Engineer - N. Y., July 15, 1891, pp. 58, 59. (Discussion of principles with diagrams. This method of operation is more adapted to systems of high rate of alternation.) (p)

"Experiments on the Electrical Discharge in Vacuum Tubes," Electrical World - N. Y., July 17, 1891, pp. 296, 297. (Discusses results and differences in theory of operation by Prof. Elihu Thomson and Nikola Tesla.) (p)

Editor note: The entry above indicates it's from Electrical World, but this appears to be a mistake. Based on title and page numbers, we're linking to the article in Electrician. 

Tesla, Nikola. "Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes," Electrical Review - London, July 17, 1891, pp. 73-75. (See also Electrical Engineer - N. Y., July 1, 1891. Discussion of results and differences of views of Prof. Thomson and Nikola Tesla.) (p)

"Tesla's System of Electric Lighting with Currents of High Frequency," Electrical Review - London, July 17, 1891, pp. 69, 70. (See also Electrical Engineer - N. Y., May 27, 1891. Discusses patent just issued to Tesla on method of electric illumination, with diagrams.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Experiments with Alternating Currents of Very High Frequencies and their Applications to Methods of Artificial Illumination," Electrical Engineer - London, (I) July, 17, 1891, pp. 63, 64; (II) July 24, 1891, pp. 81-83; (III) July 31, 1891, pp. 110-113; (IV) Aug. 7, 1891, pp. 128-131; (V) Aug. 21, 1891, pp. 159-161, 177-179. (Tesla's lecture in full before AIEE, Columbia College, May 20, 1891.) (p)

"Tesla's Electrolytic Meter," Electrical Engineer - N. Y., July 22, 1891, p. 81. (Electrolytic deposition measured by resistance rather than necessity of weighing. Diagrams.) (p)

"Tesla's New System of Electric Lighting," English Mechanic & World of Science, July 24, 1891, pp. 469, 470. (Incandescent lamps without return circuit. Lighting by condenser discharge. Diagrams.) (p)