Various Tesla book cover images

Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Hood, William E. "Lightning," Amateur Radio 73, June, 1972, pp. 139-144. (Reference to Tesla's man-made lightning in Colorado Springs, 1899.) (p)

Moss, Thelma, Ph.D., and Johnson, Ken. "Radiation Field Photography," Psychic, July, 1972, pp. 50-54. (History of "electrography" development goes back as far as Nikola Tesla.) (p)

Wilson, Burt. "Free Power How Nikola Tesla's World-Wide Wireless Super-Power System was Suppressed by Big Business," Los Angeles Free Press, Aug. 11-17, 1972, II, pp. 1, 4.) (n)

Friedlander, Gordon. "Tesla: Eccentric Genius," Signals (Publ. by the Special Industrial Radio Service Assoc., Inc., Rosslyn, Va.), Sept., 1972, pp. 11, 12. (Shortened version, without illustrations.) (p)

Goldman, Harry. "Nikola Tesla, Communications Pioneer," The Horn Speaker, Sept., 1972, pp. 1-3. (As far as is known, Tesla was the first to conceive the idea of a vacuum bulb as a detector. Illustrations.) (p)

Wait, James R. "Project Sanguine," Science, Oct. 20, 1972, pp. 272275. (Extremely low frequency communications, Navy project. Tesla proposed the use of such signals for world-wide communication.) (p)

Krippner, Stanley, and Davidson, Richard. "Our Parapsychologist Visit the U.S.S.R." Fate, Nov., 1972, pp. 91-101. (Reference to the use of the Tesla coil in Kirlian photography.) (p)

Goldman, Harry. "Nikola Tesla - Just Another Name?", Science & Children, Dec., 1972, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 9-11. (Biographical notes on Tesla's life and accomplishments. His name seems to have faded from indices of printed material.) (p)

di Castelbianco, F. Bianchi. "Tesla Challenger," IEEE Spectrum, Dec., 1972, p. 17. (Claims Galileo Ferraris anticipated Nikola Tesla on the rotating magnetic field discovery.) (p)

James, Edward T. (Editor) Dictionary of American Biography - Supplement Three, 1941-1945. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. (Includes biographical sketch of life and work of Nikola Tesla, by Charles Susskind, pp. 767-770.) (b)

Krippner, Stanley, and Rubin, Daniel. Galaxies of Life. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1973. (Use of Tesla coil in Kirlian photography, pp. 3, 4, 31, 32.) (b)

Mathews, Arthur H. The Wall of Light - Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship. Mokelumne Hill, Calif.: Health Research, 1973, 117 pp. (An account of the life and work of Nikola Tesla as told by the author. Correspondence, news clippings, photos, and drawings.) (b)

Neidle, Cecyle. Great Immigrants. Boston: Twayne, 1973, 295 pp. (Notes on life and work of Nikola Tesla, pp. 133-161, 283-285.) (b)

Norman, Ruth E.; Spaegel, Vaughn; Miller, Thomas. Tesla Speaks. (11 volumes) El Cajon, Calif.: Unarius-Science of Life, 1973 (Messages through mental transmission with Nikola Tesla and many notable personages, and other worlds of existence.) (b)