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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Tesla, Nikola. "High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes," Transactions of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association, 1899. (Paper read before the eighth annual meeting of the Association, Sept. 13-15, 1898, pp. 9-27. Minutes for second day, pp. xxxiii-xli, mention that instruments used by Tesla were invented by him but that he was not engaged in their manufacture, and that Tesla's paper would be read by Dr. W. H. White.) (b)

Bissing, William. "Telegraphing Without Wires," Electrical World - N. Y., Jan. 14, 1899, pp. 55-57; Jan. 21, 1899, pp. 83-86; Jan. 28, 1899, pp. 110, 111. (Discusses past work of others in the field, including that of Tesla. Diagrams.) (p)

"Tesla on Disease Germs," Electricity, Jan. 18, 1899, p. 18. (Reference to paper by Tesla before meeting of the Electro-Therapeutic Society in Buffalo, suggesting method of killing disease germs.) (p)

"The Upper Region of Air as Current Conductors," Electrical Engineer - N. Y., Jan. 19, 1899, p. 86. (Prof. Trowbridge questions Mr. Tesla's recent proposal to utilize those regions as a conducting medium.) (p)

"Tesla Polyphase Patents Declared Invalid in Germany," Electrical Review - London, Jan. 20, 1899, p. 96. (From Elect. Engr. - N. Y. Patents invalid since they were not worded according to the German patent law.) (p)

Rollins, W. "Roentgen Light Notes," Electrical Review - N. Y., Jan. 25, 1899, p. 53. (Reference to Tesla's work on generator terminals in oil." (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Torpedo Boat Without a Crew," Current Literature, Feb., 1899, pp. 136, 137. (p) If In

"Mr. Tesla's New Theory of Artificial Light," Electrical Engineer - N. Y., Feb. 23, 1899, p. 225. (Refers to article Phila. Press, in an interview with Mr. Charles Culver Johnson.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Tesla on Current Interrupters," Electrical Review - N. Y., Mar. 5, 1899, p. 167. (Letter from Tesla discusses development stages of work on electrolytic current interrupter. See also Electrical Experimenter, Apr., 1919, p. 909. Reprinted in Nikola Tesla, Lectures, Patents, Articles, Beograd, 1956.) (p)

Editor note: The above article is actually from Mar. 15, 1899.

"Westinghouse Sues General Electric on the Tesla Patents," Electrical Review - N. Y., Mar. 22, 1899, p. 183. (Possibility this is an entering wedge between General Electric and Westinghouse in the matter of their patent agreement.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Some Experiments in Tesla's Laboratory with Currents of High Frequency," Electrical Review - N. Y., Mar. 29, 1899, pp. 193-197, 204. (Letter from Tesla, with discussion of experiments. Photos and drawings. Excellent reference article. See also Elect. Review London, May 5, 1899, pp. 730-735.) (p)

"Tesla's Laboratory Experiments," Electrical Review - N. Y., Mar. 29, 1899, p. 198. (Editorial - Photos of Tesla work, appearing in this issue, are the first of this kind he has permitted to be published.) (p)