In Search of Nikola Tesla Page 6

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Title page Page 8 Page 12 Page 28 Page 43 Page 47 Pages 50-51 Page 61 Page 66 Page 79 Page 87 Page 89 Portrait of Tesla from 1895 One of the first prototypes of Tesla's bladeless turbines c. 1910 Photograph which appeared in the 'Electrical Experimenter', February, 1919. Tesla is holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated wireless light bulb. Tesla during the period of the Colorado Springs experiments, 1899-1900 Radio controlled boat, designed and constructed by Tesla, and first exhibited in 1898. The notation (in Tesla's hand) reads: 'Experimental Station fully developed activity (power delivery) one hundred thousand horsepower' Colorado Springs 1899-1900. Tesla in his Colorado Springs Lab, 1899 or 1900 Tesla during his student days at Gratz, 1875-78. An electrical oscillator discharging 12 million volts (the flame measures 65 feet across), created by burning nitrogen from the atmosphere. Tesla beside his spiral coil, at the laboratory on East Houston Street, NYC, holding Roger Boskovich's book 'Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis'. (1901) Electrical pressure, oscillating 100,000 times per second, excites the normally inert nitrogen, causing it to combine with oxygen Interior of the Long Island electric plant, showing a number of Tesla's devices (1902). The 187 foot Transmitting Tower and laboratory, Long Island, 1904 Page 92 Page 96 Page 123 Tesla at the age of 63. Page 134 Tesla at the age of 77. Laboratory lit by Tesla's artifical daylight. 6