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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Cuming, Walteis J. "Nikola Tesla, the Necromancer," Manchester Sunday Chronicle - England, Jan. 20, 1901. (n)

"Tesla's Wireless Light - Makes Scarcely Any Heat, and Closely Resembles Sunlight," N. Y. Sun, Jan. 26, 1901, 1 col. (n)

"A Canadian Rival of Tesla and Marconi," Electrical World - N. Y. Jan. 26, 1901, p. 162. (Prof. E. S. Wiggins of Ottowa discredits Tesla's experiments to establish communication with Mars. Will use Marconi's method, which he discovered before Marconi.) (p)

Fessenden, R. A. "Wireless Telegraphy Over Frozen Ground," Electrical World - N. Y., Jan. 26, 1901, pp. 165, 166. (Reference to Martian signals called sensationalism. See also Electrical Age, Feb., 1903, p. 105.) (p)

Knoblauch. "Point Discharge From a Tesla Pole," Electrical World - N. Y., Jan. 26, 1901, p. 168. (Abstract in Electrician - London, Jan. 4, 1901. See also Phys. Zeit., Dec. 15. Study of distribution of ions by means of perforated plate.) (p)

"Tesla's Vacuum Tube Light," N. Y. Tribune, Jan. 27, 1901, II, p. 3, col. 3. (Inventor encouraged by the progress of producing an electric light without heat.) (n)

"Tesla's New Discovery. Capacity of Electrical Conductors is Variable," N. Y. Sun, Jan. 30, 1901, 1 col. (Capacity not constant, and formulas will have to be rewritten. Capacity varies with absolute height above sea level, relative height from earth, and distance from the Sun.) (n)

"Tesla's Science," Popular Science Monthly, Feb., 1901, pp. 436, 437. (Refers to N. Y. Sun of Jan. 3, and Century for June, 1900. Not complimentary of Tesla's views. See also Popular Science for July, 1900, and Science, Sept. 21.) (p)

"Vacuum Tube Lighting," Electrical World - N. Y., Feb. 2, 1901, p. 201. (Short notes on Tesla's work in the field.) (p)

Tesla, Nikola. "Tesla's Wireless Light," Scientific American, Feb. 2, 1901, p. 67. (From N. Y. Sun article on production of light without the aid of wires.) (p)

"Tesla's Vacuum Tube Lighting," Western Electrician, Feb. 2, 1901, p. 79. (p)

"Tesla Tube Lights," N. Y. Herald, Feb. 3, 1901, Sec. 5, p. 3. (n)

Tesla, Nikola. "Talking With Planets," Colliers, Feb. 9, 1901, pp. 4, 5. (Discussion of experiments and what he expects to accomplish and how he hopes to establish communications with the planets. Reprinted in Current Lit., Mar. 1901, pp. 359, 360.) (p)

"Mr. Tesla's Wireless Telegraphy," N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 15, 1901, p. 7, col. 6. (Hopes to send messages through the earth before long.) (n)