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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Rebert, Edwina. "The Man Who Shook the World - Nikola Tesla," Electrical Workers Journal (Official Publication of the I.B.E.W.), Feb., 1962, pp. 4-7 (Part I); Mar., 1962, pp. 13-16 (Part II). (Biographical account of Tesla's life and work.) (p)

"Fireballs For Defense?", Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 7, 1962, p. 9c. (Feature article on possibility of using ball lightning as defense weapon may be inspired by early experiments of Tesla at Colorado Springs.) (n)

"Nikola Tesla Exhibit on View at Columbia Library," Electrical Engineering - N. Y., Apr., 1962, p. 322. (Exhibit of letters, photographs, books and other memorabilia relating to Nikola Tesla at the Butler Library.) (p)

Swezey, Kenneth M. "Nikola Tesla at Columbia: Tesla-Johnson Correspondence Revives a Famous Association," Columbia Library Columns, May, 1962, pp. 3-8. (Acquisition of Nikola Tesla-Robert Underwood Johnson correspondence last December from Mrs. Agnes Holden, daughter of Dr. Johnson. Biographical notes on Tesla's life.) (p)

Eaton, Dorothy S. "Reproductions - Foreign," Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, June, 1962, p. 145. (Microfilm copies of Tesla correspondence obtained from Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Includes some 2,300 frames.) (p)

"Biographer Says Tesla Couldn't Stand Drums," Colorado Springs Gazette & Telegraph, June 16, 1962, p. 1, col. 7. (Kenneth Swezey tells of some of Tesla's eccentricities. Author here checking through old files and stories of Tesla.) (n)

"Tesla Lab Site," Colorado Springs Gazette & Telegraph, June 17, 1962, p. 1, col. 2. (Tesla not awed by storms, yet feared elevators. Kenneth Swezey, author and friend of Tesla, indicates location of Tesla's experimental station.) (n)

"Tesla Author Visits Springs," Denver Post, June 17, 1962, p. 12A, col. 1, 2. (Kenneth Swezey, author and friend of Nikola Tesla, recalls tests made at Colorado Springs by the inventor.) (n)

Gernsback, Hugo. "Lethal Energy Beams," Radio Electronics, Sept., 1962, vol. 33, p. 29. (p)

Shore, E. F. "Electrical Scientist Tesla Was Hot Sketch With Press," N. Y. World Telegram & Sun, Sept. 1, 1962. (Refers to sensational statement of Tesla regarding coded message which he concluded came from outer space.) (n)

Irwin, Theodore. "The Magic Ray That Will Shape Our Future," Family Magazine, Sept. 16, 1962.

Irwin, Theodore. "The Magic Ray That Will Shape Our Future," Colorado Springs Gazette & Telegraph, Sept. 16, 1962. (From Family Magazine of Sept. 16, 1962.) (n)

"It's Electric Hill," Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 21, 1962 (Pittsburgh Album Section). (Mt. Troy section of the city is referred to as "Electric Hill" with names of Edison, Volta, Ohm and Tesla. Greenfield section of city also has a street named Tesla.) (n)