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Nikola Tesla slideshow: Images and articles from Tesla's writings
Steve Taranovich
9/13/2012 1:12 PM EDT
John Ratzlaff compiled 25 years of research on Nikola Tesla in his book, “Tesla Said” (now out of print with one used copy on Amazon last time I looked for $350). The book is a collection including photocopies of original newspaper and magazine articles and other documents written by Tesla from 1888 to 1939.
In this slideshow, we present a sampling of images and excerpts from this collection, which are all obtainable on the Internet. The image files included here were graciously provided by John Piliounis, a physicist/electronics engineer in Athens, Hellas (Greece).
Some examples of the articles in this book include:
- "On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator"
- "Application of Tubes of High Illuminating Power to Photography and Other Purposes"
- "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wire As a Means for Furthering Peace"
- "Nikola Tesla's Plan to Keep 'Wireless Thumb' on Ships at Sea"
For even more Tesla books, see Twenty-First Century (TFC) Books at http://www.tfcbooks.com/default.htm.
Gary Peterson, owner/operator of TFC is an avid Tesla enthusiast and has a great background in the Tesla saga in modern times. Gary has been involved with the efforts to save the Wardenclyffe Lab and runs the website http://www.teslaradio.com/ and has aligned with the Tesla Science Center http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/.
See more about Tesla on EDN:
Tesla - Connecting the dots
Who says Tesla is an unsung hero?
Save Tesla’s lab!
Nikola Tesla is born, July 10, 1856
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Al.Sledge
9/21/2012 8:38 PM EDT
Great slide show Steve. Wish I had one of his original books. I'm always in awe thinking about what Tesla accomplished without all the materials, instruments, and computer modeling that we use today. He had just crude batteries, crude copper wire, wood, and oil. I can't envision life without a vector network analyzer much less a VOM. In those days my job title would likely be "day laborer". Thanks again and look forward to similar articles.
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StevenFE
9/22/2012 10:57 PM EDT
Nice to finally read publicly about Nicolas Tesla existence. It is intriguing to see how long it took a technical magazine like yours to finally open up information and give pointers to the general public about Tesla's technology. Have we started the disclosure process at last ???
I still wonder when you guys will publish an article about free energy devices with practical and usable schematics, and finally reveal that the work of Tesla should have been already applied for the past 100 years ! Looking forward to see that happening.
PS: It is funny that at the same time I am writing this comments, there is a short reportage on National Geographic channel showing people playing with Megavolts devices using Tesla coils.
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