Nikola Tesla Books
he gave an extensive statement to The New York Times in which, among other things, he said:
...My system not only supplies the entire world with energy for all purposes, but has also created an entire revolution in electric lighting and has proven to be highly successful commercially as well, reducing power costs and enormously increasing transmission distances.
In 1929, Tesla gave a statement to the New York newspaper World in which he said, among other things:
â¦Even the greatest praise is not too much to bestow upon Edison for his diligent pioneering work, but everything he accomplished was done in known and transient forms. What I have contributed constitutes a new and permanent addition to human knowledge. Just as his lamp and my induction motor may be set aside and forgotten in the continual evolution of science, my rotating field, with its astonishing phenomena, will live as long as science itself.
In the same statement, Tesla quotes Professor B. A. Berend, who in his book on the induction motor says:
If we were to remove from the industrial world the results of the work of Mr. Tesla, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric trains and cars would come to a halt, our cities would be in darkness, and our factories dead and idle. So far-reaching is this work that it is both the foundation and the fabric of the entire industry.
Another great discovery by Tesla was his "high-frequency currents," known as "Tesla currents." In 1885, Tesla constructed his first high-frequency transformer, by means of which he was able to produce alternating current of about 10,000 cycles per second; he later further refined this apparatus and achieved a frequency of 35,000 cycles. With these currents he carried out extraordinarily impressive experiments,
