Tesla: Collected Writings (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Lectures, Essays, and Visions on Alternating Current, Wireless Energy, and the Future of Electrical InventionBy Nikola Tesla
Length50h 10m
About this audiobook
Tesla: Collected Writings gathers the inventor's lectures, essays, articles, and reflective statements into a documentary portrait of one of modernity's most audacious scientific minds. The volume ranges across alternating current, wireless transmission, robotics, resonance, and speculative visions of global communication, revealing a prose style at once exacting, theatrical, and visionary. Read in the context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century electrical science, these writings illuminate the era's transition from laboratory discovery to technological civilization. Nikola Tesla, born in 1856 in Smiljan and later a central figure in American invention, wrote from the vantage point of both engineer and futurist. His experience with European technical education, his work in Edison's orbit, and his later independent experiments shaped a distinctive intellectual temperament: disciplined in mathematics and physics, yet unusually receptive to imaginative projection. These writings reflect the ambitions and frustrations of a man determined to make electricity not merely useful, but transformative. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the history of science, technological modernity, and the rhetoric of invention. It rewards scholars, engineers, and general readers alike with direct access to Tesla's mind—brilliant, speculative, and often uncannily prescient.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
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GenreTechnology
Length50 hrs 10 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tesla: Collected Writings (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (pt. 1)
7My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (pt. 2)
8Lectures
9A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers
10Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Lecture)
11Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (pt. 1)
12Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (pt. 2)
13On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena (pt. 1)
14On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena (pt. 2)
15On Electricity
16My Submarine Destroyer
17High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes
18Scientific Articles
19Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer
20Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency
21Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Article)
22Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus
23An Electrolytic Clock
24Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes
25Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo
26The "Drehstrom" Patent
27The Ewing High-Frequency Alternator and Parson's Steam Engine
28On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator
29The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents
30Nikola Tesla - About His Experiments in Electrical Healing
31The Age of Electricity
32The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (pt. 1)
33The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (pt. 2)
34Talking with Planets
35Can Bridge the Gap to Mars
36Little Aeroplane Progress
37How to Signal to Mars
38The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires
39The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity
40Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision
41Correction by Mr. Tesla
42The True Wireless
43On Roentgen Rays (1)
44On Roentgen Rays (2) - Latest Results
45Tesla's Latest Results - He Now Produces Radiographs at a Distance of More Than Forty Feet
46On Reflected Roentgen Rays
47On Roentgen Radiations
48Roentgen Ray Investigations
49An Interesting Feature of X-Ray Radiations
50Roentgen Rays or Streams
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