Nikola Tesla Books
and among other things was the first to transmit electrical energy wirelessly.
Many of the results were published in numerous patents, and a large portion of them were demonstrated in experimental lectures at Columbia College in New York (1891); before the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Institution in London (1892); before the International Society of Electricians and the French Society of Physics in Paris (1892); before the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis (1893). At each of these lectures Tesla presented new discoveries and new phenomena. In addition, Tesla published many new ideas in various scientific and technical journals.
Tesla came to London with the intention of delivering only a single lecture before the Institution of Electrical Engineers on February 3, 1892. He did indeed deliver that lecture. Young, tall, elegant, with elastic movements, a long, spiritualized face, and luxuriant black hair, speaking perfect English without a foreign accent, he caused a sensation with his brilliant experiments. Many prominent English scientists were deeply impressed by the lecture. They tried in every possible way to persuade Tesla to repeat the lecture before the Royal Institution, but the stubborn Tesla energetically resisted this. The famous English physicist James Dewar (who, among other things, invented the thermos flask) took him to Faraday's laboratory, seated him in Faraday's armchair, and from an expensive cabinet took out a bottle with a little whisky, which was Faraday's legacy and had stood there untouched for decades. He poured half a glass and offered it to Tesla - and Sir James prevailed. Tesla agreed to deliver a lecture the following
