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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Mator. "Tesla At The Top," Pittsburg Dispatch, May 31, 1896. (n)

"The Inventions of Nikola Tesla," Progress of The World, June, 1896. (From N. Y. Sun article.) (p)

Herdman, J. W. "Tesla and Edison Apparatus," Electrical Review, - N. Y., June 3, 1896, p. 286. (Letter to editor requests descriptions for making apparatus for Roentgen ray researches used by Tesla and Edison.) (p)

Westinghouse - G. E. Agreement - in effect June 1, 1896, Commercial & Financial Chronicle, June 6, 1896, p. 1040. (n)

Wessels, Edward J., Moore Electrical Co. "Claims of Moore (D. MacFarlan), Tesla and Edison," Western Electrician, June 6, 1896, pp. 285, 286 (Editorial); p. 282 (Very bitter against Tesla for favoring Moore. See Elect. Review - N. Y., Aug. 11, 1897, for rebuttle.) (p)

Martin, T. C. "L'utilisation des chuts de Niagara," Bulletin de la Société Ubterbatuibak des Electriciens - Paris, July, 1896, pp. 304-323. (fp)

"Tesla and Marriage," American Electrician, July, 1896, p. 91. (Refers to Electric Journal - urges Tesla to get married.) (p)

Mullin, E. H. "The Light of the Future," Electrical Doings - N. Y., July, 1896. (p)

"High Frequency Experiments," Journal of Electricity, Power & Gas, July, 1896, pp. 8. 9. (Editorial Tesla effects with vacuum tube illumination is confined to sphere of the laboratory, and practical applications many years in the future.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Tesla Describes an Interesting Feature of the X-Ray," Electrical Review - N. Y., July 8, 1896, pp. 13, 14. (Letter to Editor Tesla discusses nature of x-ray particles, and observations in operating the tube. With diagrams. Reprinted in Nikola Tesla, Lectures, Patents, Articles, Beograd, 1956.) (p)

"New Tesla Coil for X-Ray Work," Electrical Review - N. Y., July 22, 1896, p. 39. (Modified Tesla coil marketed by L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.)

Miller, L. "Tesla Transformers for Rontgen Photography," Electrical Review - London, July 17, 1896, p. 76. (Diagrams of complete Tesla apparatus being patented by Mr. L. Miller.) (p)

McKissick, A. F. "Construction of a Tesla-Thompson High Frequency Coil," American Electrician, Aug., 1896, pp. 130, 131. (Exerpts of this article found in Elect. Review - London, Sept. 18, 1896.) (p)

"Tesla Visit to Niagara Falls," Western Electrician, Aug. 1, 1896, p. 54. (Editorial account of first visit of Nikola Tesla to Niagara Falls, Tesla delighted in the manner in which his discoveries had been adapted.) (p)