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Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

Tesla, Nikola. "Tesla on the Peary North Pole Expedition," Electrical World & Engineer - N. Y., July 22, 1905, p. 130. (Reprint of N. Y. Sun, July 16, 1905. Tesla wishes success to Perry. Tells of his plans for energy transmission to any central point on the ground.) (p)

"Rationelle Konstruktion von Tesla-Transformatoren," Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift - Berlin, July 27, 1905, pp. 702, 703. (fp)

Bottone, S. "Tesla Coil," English Mechanic & World of Science, July 28, 1905, p. 576. (Refers to author's book, Electrical Instrument Making for Amateurs, which has description of construction of a Tesla coil.) (p)

"Nikola Tesla Says He is Not Indebted to Duffner," Colorado Springs Gazette, Sept. 6, 1905, p. 5, col. 1, 2. (C. J. Duffner sues Tesla for $899.22 for acting as caretaker. Tesla asserts he never employed Duffner.) (n)

"Nikola Tesla Portrait," Reader, Oct., 1905, p. 573. (p)

"Nikola Tesla Must Pay Up," Colorado Springs Gazette, Nov. 19, 1905, p. 5, col. 1. (C. J. Duffner gets judgement against Tesla for $928.57.) (n)

Fleming, J. A. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1906. (Indexed items relating to Tesla: Experiments on High Freq. Currents, p. 421; High Freq. Alternator, pp. 5-7; interruptor, p. 49; oscillation transformer, pp. 64-66.) (b)

McGovern, John. The Fireside University. Chicago: Union Publishing House, 1906. (b)

Collins, Frederick A. "High Potential Discharges," Scientific American, Jan. 27, 1906, p. 92. (Tesla first to study forms of connective discharges.) (p)

"Tesla Split-Phase Patent Litigation," Electrical World & Engineer - N. Y., Feb. 17, 1906, p. 357. (Decision in favor of Westinghouse. Defendant was Electric Appliance Co.) (p)

"Tesla's Fixture's in Sheriff's Sale," Colorado Springs Gazette, Mar. 10, 1906, p. 5, col. 2. (Legal notice of sale to be held on March 22.) (n)

"Tesla Fixtures in Sheriff's Sale," Colorado Springs Gazette, Mar. 10, 1906, p. 5, col. 3. (Sale of property belonging to Nikola Tesla to satisfy a judgement for $928.) (n)

Editor note: The two articles above clearly appear to be duplicates. Any reasoning otherwise is unknown.

"Left Property Here; Skips; Sheriff's Sale," Colorado Springs Telegraph, Mar. 22, 1906, p. 3, col. 3. (Property sold to pay judgements against Nikola Tesla.) (n)

Zakek, A. "Nikola Tesla & His Work," Humanitarian, Aug. 1, 1906, p. 77. (p)