Nikola Tesla Books
Walters, Helen B. Nikola Tesla: Giant of Electricity. T. Y. Crowell, 1961, 189 pp. (Biography of Nikola Tesla in story form.) (b)
Zohler, Maxim (pseud. for S. Simons). Between Thunder and Lightning. West Warwick, R. I.: Joseph E. LeBrun, 1961, 278 pp., 21 cm. fictional biography of Nikola Tesla.) (b)
Electronic Experimenters Handbook - 1961 (Popular Electronics) (Article "Tesla's Trickery", by Kenneth Richardson, pp. 15-18. Construction and operation of a Tesla coil.) (b)
DamjanoviÄ, Aleksandar. "JoÅ¡ jedan kokaz u borbi za Teslina prioritenta prava u elektrotehnici." (Still Another Proof in the Struggle for Tesla's Priority Rights in Electrotechnics.) Tesla - Beograd, Vol. VII (1961), No. 1, pp. 39-44. (Article contains reproductions of affidavits by Anthony Szigeti, to whom Tesla first explained the rotary magnetic field principle in 1883 in Strasbourg and who became Tesla's assistant in America in the construction of the first alternating current motors.) (fp)
Crevar, Milos. "Dvadesetpetgodišnjica društva 'Nikola Tesla'." (The 25th Aniversary of the 'Nikola Tesla' Association.) Tesla - Beograd, Vol. VIII (1961), No. 2, p. 59. (Note: This is an obvious error at first glance, inasmuch as the text refers at least three times to the 20th anniversary, but see explanation in VIII, No. 3, p. 61, ff.) (fp)
Craig, Ronald. "Nikola Tesla - the Unheralded Genius," EE Digest (AIEE for students), Mar., 1961, p. 5. (p)
Anderson, Leland I. "Correspondence: Sub-Surface Communications Systems," Proceedings of the I.R.E., Mar., 1961, p. 645. (Reference to subsurface or "earth current" communication systems. Pioneering work by Nikola Tesla and James H. Rogers.) (p)
Burridge, Gaston. "A Beam of Light," Rosicrucian Digest, Mar., 1961, pp. 87-89, 100. (Article concerns Tesla's announcement and comments on "death ray", etc., and current activity on these subjects.) (p)
Buchanan, Dennis. "'Ontogeny, Phylogeny Make Sense to Progany' - And Science Exhibits Can Offer Proof," Chicago Tribune, Mar. 5, 1961. (Article concerns city's Science Fairs. One of five illustrations shows Milos Manic, 13, grandnephew of Nikola Tesla, wiring up fuel cell generator exhibited at district fair.) (n)
"Signals From Space Received Half Century Ago?", Science Service, Apr. 21, 1961. (Nikola Tesla had advised the world that he had received signals from space during experiments at Colorado Springs. The signals suggested number and order.)
Anderson, Leland I. "Extra Terrestrial Radio Transmission," Nature London, Apr. 22, 1961, p. 374. (Letter from L. I. Anderson commenting on change of professional attitude toward the idea of extra terrestrial communication since Tesla's announcement.) (p)
