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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

"Ewing's High Frequency Alternator," Electrical World - N. Y., Dec. 17, 1892, p. 391. (Reference article.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "On the Dissipation of Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator," Electrical Engineer - N. Y., Dec. 21, 1892, pp. 537, 538. (Compliments Prof. Bjerknes demonstrations at Paris Exposition in 1889. Apparatus, oscillator and resonator immersed in air-dissipation of energy termed "electric sound waves or sound-waves of electrified air." See also Elect. Engr., Dec. 14.) (p)

"Tesla's System of Multiphase Dist., Electrical Engineer - N. Y., Dec. 21, 1892, p. 607. (A short note on patent infringement and exploitation.) (p)

"High Frequency Alternators," Electrical World - N. Y., Dec. 23, 1892, p. 208. (Editorial comment - Tesla states that ordinary rules of magnetic circuit do not hold for rapidly changing currents.) (p)

Tesla Polyphase System - Electrical Power Transmission - Tesla Patents. New York: Western Electric & Mfg. Co., Jan. 1893. (Contains introductory comment on the merits of the Tesla patents and reproduces specifications of 29 patents.) (b)

Tesla, Nikola. Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena. Pittsburg: National Electric Light Association, 1893, 114 pp. (Tesla lecture before the National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, Mar. 1, 2, 1893.) (b)

Volume of Sixteenth Convention. National Electric Light Assoc., 1893. (Tesla made honorary member, p. 414.) (b)

Tesla, Nikola. "On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena," Proceedings of The National Electric Light Association, 1893. (Text of Tesla's lecture in full, pp. 191-302.) (b)

Tesla, Nikola. Tesla notes, excerpts from periodicals on dynamo-electric machinery, covering the years from 1879 to 1893. Typewritten copy. (Engineering Societies Library, N. Y. City.) (b)

(Tesla, Nikola.)
Westinghouse electric and manufacturing company and Tesla electric company and Tesla electric company vs. Thomson-Houston electric company. Suit for infringement of letters patent no. 381,968, for improvement in electro-magnetic motors and 382,280, granted to N. Tesla defendant's exhibits and testimonies; complaintant's rebuttal) (1893-1896). At head of title: United States circuit court, district of Connecticut, in equity, no. 755 and 756. Cover title: Tesla case. Engineering Societies Library, N.Y.C. card no. 621.303 A008w5t. (b)

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Book of The Fair. (2 vols.), Chicago & San Francisco: Bancroft Co. Publishers, 1893. (Vol. I, chapter "Electrical Bldg.", pp. 399-425. Tesla mentioned in connection with Westinghouse exhibit at Chicago World's Fair. Tesla polyphase system used to light entire fair installation.) (b)