Nikola Tesla Books
It Was Difficult for the World to Follow Him
Tesla cannot be considered within the ordinary framework of a great successful engineer. He is a poet of electrical engineering, - an artist, if you like. Tesla was too full of ideas to be able to do the ordinary work of an engineer. He had colossal intuition, his grasp of the secrets of nature was tremendous ... He appeared like a whirlwind, swept over the contemporary world which found it difficult to follow him; he raced ahead paying no attention to the environment of ordinary people who were advancing slowly.
(Dr Milan Vidmar, prominent Yugoslav expert in electrical engineering)
Extraordinary Grasp of the Nature of Phenomena
Nikola Teslaâs inventions in the field of polyphase currents and his induction motor would alone be enough to perpetuate his fame ... I feel I may state my opinion on his later work in the field of high-frequency and high-voltage currents, because it also had the greatest influence on my development and my choice of career. Who today can read the book âThe Inventions, Researches and Papers of Nikola Teslaâ, which was published at the end of the last century, without being fascinated by the beauty of the experiments described, and amazed by Teslaâs extraordinary ability to grasp the nature of the phenomena he investigated? We can only guess what an inspiration the book was forty years ago for a young man who had decided to study electrical phenomena. The influence of that book was as great as it was crucial for his further work ...
I believe the world will wait long for the emergence of another genius to rival Nikola Tesla as regards his geat achievements and imagination.
(E. K. Armstrong, Nobel Prize winner)
Symbol of Americaâs Prosperity
Nikola Teslaâs great achievements in the field of electrical science are a monument symbolizing America at a fortunate era ... For him, freedom and solitude were more important than money or a big laboratory. He lived on new ideas, - ideas which to many people seemed fantastic. But Tesla was not a man to be controlled by ideas: he controlled them, especially in the 1890s when he gave the world his induction motor, which made it possible to transmit electric power from the Niagara and drive electric railways in Syracuse at a distance of 160 miles, the Tesla coil or transformer, and many other inventions. He was a pioneer in the field of radio engineering ... Teslaâs intellect was a human dynamo working for the welfare of mankind.
(C. D. Sarnoff, President of the American Radio Corporation, in the magazine Radio Craft, 1943)
