Various Tesla book cover images

Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

de Cholnoky, Tibor. Short Wave Diathermy, Colorado Univ. Press, 1937. (Refer pp. 3, 4) (b)

Popović, Vojisla Nikola Tesla, Dalendar "Vardar", 1937, 20 pp. (fb)

Damjanovic, Aleksandar. Teslino delo u radiotehnici - Dodatak us knjigu: M. Seydewitz/K. Doberer: Zraci smrti i ostalo novo cružje u budućem ratu, Nolit, Beograd, 1937, pp. 255-263. (fb)

Hadži, Kosta. Nikola Tesla medu omladinom u Zagrebu i Beogradu-Godišnjak Matice Srpske, Novi Sad, 1937. (fb)

Popovicki, Lazar. Nikola Tesla i njegova dela - Privrednikov kalendar, Beograd, 1937, p. 118. (fb)

Binder, Mrs. Z. Helen. "A World-Famous Scientist," Great Britain and The Far East, Feb. 18, 1937, vol. 48, p. 243. (Thumbnail biographical sketch of Tesla with photo.) (fp)

"George Westinghouse Commemoration by the ASME. A forum on the 90th anniversary (Dec. 1, 1936) of his birth," Mechanical Engineering, Apr., 1937, p. 270. (Subject of Tesla's polyphase motor and system covered by Stillwell on p. 270. See also booklet, p. 70, published under same title.) (p)

"Off The Record," Fortune, May, 1937, p. 64. (Short mention of Tesla's feeding pigeons and other details of his personal life.) (p)

"Tesla is Provider of Pigeon Relief," N. Y. Times, May 1, 1937, p. 21, col. 3. (Hires Western Union boy to feed pigeons. Formerly did it himself.) (n)

"Tesla Devises Vacuum Tube Atom-Smasher. Scientist to Give Details at 80th Birthday Luncheon to be Held Tomorrow," N. Y. Herald Tribune, July 9, 1937. (Announcement of a vacuum tube which will make cheap radio-active substitutes for radium, and which is much more effective as an atom smasher than any device now available. Expected to describe process by which the darts of cosmic rays are produced.) (n)

"Tesla is 80 Today - Inventor to Receive Two Foreign Decorations," N. Y. Sun, July 10, 1937. (To receive Order of the White Eagle from Yugoslavia and Order of the White Lion from Czechoslovakia.) (n)

"Tesla, 81, Today, Gives World Cheap Substitute for Radium," Brooklyn Eagle, July 10, 1937, p. 13, col. 6. (n)

"Tesla Promises to Light Dark Spot on Moon. It's Part of a Scheme of His For Interplanetary Radio; Distance Means Nothing. Has 4 New Inventions. Tells of Them on 81st Birthday; 2 Nations Honor Him," N. Y. Herald Tribune, July 11, 1937. (n)

"Sending Messages to Planets Predicted by Dr. Tesla," N. Y. Times, July 11, 1937, II, p. 1, col. 2. (Talks of key to interstellar transmission and tube to produce radium cheaply and copiously. Tesla decorated by Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.) (n)