Various Tesla book cover images

Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla

because it had the greatest influence on my development and on my life's path. Who can today read the book "Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla," published at the end of the last century, and not be fascinated by the beauty of the described experiments and amazed by Tesla's extraordinary ability to delve into the nature of the phenomena he investigated? But we can only imagine how much inspiration that book was forty years ago for a young man who was determined to study electrical phenomena. The influence of that book was just as great and crucial for his further work...

I believe that the world will wait a long time for a genius to appear who could rival Nikola Tesla in terms of his great achievements and his imagination.

Another well-known American expert in the field of radio technology and telecommunications, Mauborgne, wrote these significant words on that occasion in the same magazine:

The great pioneer of wireless telegraphy has passed away. "The Visionary" Tesla, as I called him in my youth, who captivated the minds of my entire generation with his work in the unknown realm of space and electricity. "The Dreamer," as many called him, with his astonishing vision that was far ahead of his time, so much so that very few people, only many years after Marconi's appearance, realized that the great Tesla was the first to develop not only the principles of electrical resonance, but that he was truly the first to create a system for wireless transmission of messages as early as 1893. Who today can read the pages of the authoritative and historical work published by T. K. Martin under the title: "Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla," and not be impressed by the fact that Tesla had already, that year, developed high-frequency resonant circuits and a system for wireless transmission of messages, in which, as the picture in Martin's book shows, he foresaw a grounded transmitter with a raised wire for transmitting electromagnetic waves, which we today call an "antenna" ' and this is an invention and system that is attributed to Marconi...

The President of the American Radio Corporation, Sarnoff, also wrote in the same issue of the aforementioned magazine, among other things: