Nikola Tesla People

Relatives, friends and associates of Nikola Tesla

Thomas Commerford Martin

Close friend of Nikola Tesla and editor of The Century magazine.

Articles

The Burning of Tesla's Laboratory

Engineering Magazine - April 1st, 1895

Of Tycho Brahe's famous observatory at Uraniburg remain to-day but a mound of earth and a couple of holes. The same inventory would aptly apply to all that is left of the upper floor where Nikola...

Article added December 18, 2025 - 10:12 PM

How Tesla Creates Light

Colorado Springs Gazette - April 25th, 1895

Between us and the sun stretches the tenuous, sensitive ether, and every sensation of light that the eye experiences is caused by the effect of five hundred trillions of waves every second impressed...

Article added January 6, 2019 - 4:08 AM

Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions

Century Magazine - April 1st, 1895

An Authoritative Account of Some of His Recent Electrical Work.¹ Skobeleff, the great Russian general, once said of the political conditions in Central Asia, that they changed every moment; hence the...

Article added October 9, 2011 - 3:52 AM

Nikola Tesla (Earliest Biographical Text)

Century Magazine - February 1st, 1894

SERVIAN poetry has so distinct a charm that Goethe is said to have learned the musical tongue in which it is written rather than lose any of its native beauty. History does not record, however, any...

Article added September 28, 2011 - 9:50 PM

Books

Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Electrical problems of the present day lie largely in the economical transmission of power and in the radical improvement of the means and methods of illumination. To many workers and thinkers in the...

Book added November 19, 2009 - 12:30 AM

The Tesla Rotating Magnetic Field

This 24 page article was extracted from the book: Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla , by Thomas Commerford Martin.