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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Bayles, Thomas R. The Early Years in Brookhaven Town - Long Island, N. Y. Privately printed by author, 1962. (Photo and short description of Tesla's tower and laboratory at Shoreham, L. I.) (b)

Dunlap, Orrin E., Jr. Communications in Space. New York: Harper & Bros., 1962. (Mentions Tesla and others in development of wireless telegraphy, pp. ix, 18, 19, 21, 95, 156, 157.) (b)

Manchester, Harland. Trail Blazers of Technology - The Story of Nine Inventors. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962, 215 pp. (Chapter 7 on Nikola Tesla, pp. 139-159, Lee De Forest's fascination with Tesla, p. 166, bibliographical references, p. 169.) (b)

Marconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw Hill Co., 1962. (Brief note of Tesla's tribute to Marconi, p. 118.) (b)

Patrick, Sam, and Getze, George. Profiles in Science. Los Angeles: Mirror-Times Syndicate, 1962, 59 pp., 18 cm. (The broad world of science in terms of the people who made it. Tesla is represented, p. 49, among 53 scientists who worked from before the time of Christ.) (b)

Susskind, Charles (Editor). The Encyclopedia of Electronics. New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1962. (Includes biographical notes on life and work of Tesla, pp. 855, 856.) (b)

The Van Dean Manual - Professional Training for Beauticians. San Leandro, Calif.: San Leandro Beauty College, 1962, 360 pp. (Ref. to high frequence apparatus for beauty work, pp. 122-129.) (b)

Pertot, Milan. Nikola Tesla, pionir elektriške dobe. Ljubljana (Uprava Elektrogospodarske skupnosti Slovenije) 1962, 105 pp. illus., ports. (fb)

Banks, Gordon T. "The Auction Market," Manuscripts, Winter, 1962, pp. 50, 51. (Short letter of Tesla's brought approximately $50 at the Stargardt auctions in Marburg, Germany, last November, 1961.) (p)

"Scanning the Transactions," Proceedings of the I.R.E., Jan., 1962, p. 107. (Review of "Power Without Wires", by W. C. Brown, appearing in the IRE Student Quarterly for Sept., 1961. Mentions historic work of Tesla at Colorado Springs in 1899.) (p)

Hollis, Carroll. "Nikola Tesla Papers," Information Bulletin (Library of Congress), Jan. 8, 1962, pp. 9, 10. (Announcement of 2,340 microfilm frames obtained from Yugoslavia. Correspondence with Mark Twain, George Scherff, J. P. Morgan, and R. U. Johnson.) (p)

"Our Debt to Tesla," Ontario Hydro News, Feb., 1962, pp. 12, 13. (Discusses plan for conversion of the Edward Dean Adams plant, closed 1961, to an electrical hall of fame.) (p)

Gradecak, Vjekoslav. "Electricity for Space Exploration," Ryan Reporter (Ryan Aeronautical Co.), Feb., 1962, pp. 1-3, 25. (Refers to Tesla experiments in Colorado Springs using electromagnetic fields so intense that they perceptibly affected the electrical potential of the earth.) (p)