Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA heat or motive power, anywhere - on sea, or land, or high in the air. In his sixties he patented turbines and tried to apply them in practice. However, his stubbornness and lack of cooperation in working with other engineers did not lead to useful practical results. As he approached his seventies, Tesla wrote an autobiography in the form of a series of articles in the Electrical Experimenter entitled My Inventions. Tesla obviously wanted to stress that his life was his inventions, and that this was all he desired and did in his life. Until the end of his life he remained a lonely man, either working in his hotel room or feeding pigeons in front of the Public Library in New York. Tesla's last visit to his fatherland was in 1892 when he came to Europe to give lectures in London and Paris. In Paris he got news that his mother was seriously ill so he postponed other visits and arrived just in time to have his mother die in his presence. On that occasion, after recovering, he made short visits to Zagreb and Belgrade where he was received as a national hero. Although he promised to return, he never did. However, his visit had an important influence in that Serbia was among the first countries in Europe to buy and use the polyphase alternating current system. Writing about Nikola Tesla is not a simple task. There are several biographies written about his life and work. The first that appeared soon after his death was written by John O'Nill - a science writer who wrote an interesting book for the general reader. He knew Tesla personally but not being a scientist, he could not penetrate deep enough into the mind of a technical genius. Other biographers described Tesla from somewhat different angles and for various readers. The book written by scientist F. David Peat about the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla is a unique approach of a modern scientist to the pioneer of alternating current in the broadest sense. The outcome is a new creative insight into Tesla's work and it is inspirational for all who would like to follow visions and eventually continue where Tesla arrived. Dr Peat did not avoid meeting and listening to people whose expectations far exceeded Tesla's promises and visions which modern science cannot accept or declares invalid. Tesla's wish to transmit energy without wires is not dead, however, modern science now considers microwave beam transmission more feasable than low frequency transmission in the earth resonator! 9
