Nikola Tesla Books
"'Pep Room' in The Palace Is Much Better Than Champagne," N. Y. Press, July 26, 1914. (High voltage electrical installation for tired actors and actresses. Generates ozone, which opens up throat and lungs. Nikola Tesla was first to demonstrate benefits of this type, and is watching results with interest.) (n)
Magri, Father Francois, S. J. "A Huge Tesla Apparatus," Scientific American, Aug. 8, 1914, p. 102. (A coil with a seven foot spark gap. Description and photos.) (p)
"Electrified School Room to Brighten Dull Pupils," N. Y. Times, Aug. 18, 1914. (Idea proposed by N. Tesla for subjecting group of students to high frequency from apparatus installed in the walls. Based on observed improved mental activity of one of Tesla's workers, who was subjected to similar treatment. Also successful reports from Europe on similar tests.) (n)
Editor note: The above article is actually from Aug. 18, 1912.
"Nikola Tesla to Fight Marconi Patent Suit," N. Y. Sun, Aug. 29, 1914. (Suit by Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., against Fritz Lowenstein for wireless parts sold to U. S. Navy Dept. Tesla says he was first to invent certain wireless devices used by Lowenstein. Tesla may serve as witness for Lowenstein.) (n)
Gernsback, S., and Secor, H. Winfield. "Experimental Electricity Course," Electrical Experimenter, Sept., 1914, pp. 68, 69. (Lesson 14. High frequency currents. Operation characteristics and diagrams.) (p)
Gernsback, S., and Secor, H. Winfield. "Experimental Electricity Course," Electrical Experimenter, Oct., 1914, pp. 84, 85, 87. (Lesson 14, cont'd. from Sept. issue. Construction and operation of Tesla coil with photos and diagrams.) (p)
Pausert, T. "Sur les turbines a frottement ou turbines Tesla," La Revue electrique, Dec. 4, 1914, p. 386. (fp)
"Tesla Light to Rob Ocean of Every Danger," N. Y. American, Dec. 7, 1914. (Tesla advises that application of new principles of electrical construction can control rainfall, to illuminate the entire ocean, and destruction of the atom with a release of immense energy.) (n)
Tesla, Nikola. "Science and Discovery are the Great Forces which will Lead to the Consumation of the War," N. Y. Sun, Dec. 20, 1914. (Reprinted in Nikola Tesla, Lectures, Patents, Articles, Beograd, 1956. Discussion of World War I, military strategies, use of poison gases, wireless control of military equipment, and other weapons.) (n)
Cobb, Weldon J. A Trip to Mars; or, Won By Sheer Pluck. New York: N. L. Munro, 1901; Street and Smith, 1915. 320 pp., 21 cm. No. 835 of the "New Medal Library" Series. (A melodramatic fictionalized novel with young Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison as the motivating characters.) (b)
