
Collected Writings of Nikola Tesla
Essays and Experiments on Alternating Current, Wireless Power, and the Electrical AgeBy Nikola Tesla, Thomas Commerford MartinLength19h 41m
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Collected Writings of Nikola Tesla gathers the lectures, technical essays, demonstrations, and speculative reflections through which one of electrical modernity's most arresting figures articulated his vision. Moving between exacting discussions of alternating-current systems, high-frequency currents, wireless transmission, illumination, and mechanical invention, the volume reveals a prose at once experimental, polemical, and imaginatively prophetic. Landmark accounts of rotating magnetic fields and resonant apparatus stand beside broader meditations on energy, communication, and civilization, placing practical engineering in dialogue with the technological utopianism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tesla's writings emerge here in a context shaped by his work as inventor, public lecturer, and unusually theatrical interpreter of scientific possibility. Thomas Commerford Martin's editorial role helps frame these materials for readers interested in the formative debates surrounding electrification and the expanding public culture of science. Together, the texts illuminate an era in which laboratories, patent offices, industrial systems, and popular imagination converged around electricity's transformative promise. This volume is especially rewarding for readers of scientific history, media studies, engineering, and modern intellectual culture. It offers the rare opportunity to follow a major inventor across multiple modes of expression while tracing the dialogue between technical argument and visionary ambition. Readers will find both an invaluable documentary resource and a stimulating account of how scientific ideas acquire social and cultural force.
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Publish dateDec 4, 2023
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Table of contents
1From Immigrant to Inventor (Annotated)
2The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
3PREFACE.
4CHAPTER I. Biographical and Introductory.
5CHAPTER II. A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers.
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6CHAPTER III. The Tesla Rotating Magnetic Field.—Motors With Closed Conductors.—Synchronizing Motors.—Rotating Field Transformers.
7CHAPTER IV. Modifications and Expansions of the Tesla Polyphase Systems.
8CHAPTER V. Utilizing Familiar Types of Generator of the Continuous Current Type.
9CHAPTER VI. Method of Obtaining Desired Speed of Motor or Generator.
10CHAPTER VII. Regulator for Rotary Current Motors.
11CHAPTER VIII. Single Circuit, Self-Starting Synchronizing Motors.
12CHAPTER IX. Change From Double Current to Single Current Motor.
13CHAPTER X. Motor With "Current Lag" Artificially Secured.
14CHAPTER XI. Another Method of Transformation from a Torque to a Synchronizing Motor.
15CHAPTER XII. "Magnetic Lag" Motor.
16CHAPTER XIII. Method of Obtaining Difference of Phase by Magnetic Shielding.
17CHAPTER XIV. Type of Tesla Single-Phase Motor.
18CHAPTER XV. Motors with Circuits of Different Resistance.
19CHAPTER XVI. Motor With Equal Magnetic Energies in Field and Armature.
20CHAPTER XVII. Motors With Coinciding Maxima of Magnetic Effect in Armature and Field.
21CHAPTER XVIII. Motor Based on the Difference of Phase in the Magnetization of the Inner and Outer Parts of an Iron Core.
22CHAPTER XIX. Another Type of Tesla Induction Motor.
23CHAPTER XX. Combinations of Synchronizing Motor and Torque Motor.
24CHAPTER XXI. Motor with a Condenser in the Armature Circuit.
25CHAPTER XXII. Motor with Condenser in one of the Field Circuits.
26CHAPTER XXIII. Tesla Polyphase Transformer.
27CHAPTER XXIV. A Constant Current Transformer with Magnetic Shield Between Coils of Primary and Secondary.
28CHAPTER XXV. Introduction.—The Scope of the Tesla Lectures.
29CHAPTER XXVI. Experiments With Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination.1
30CHAPTER XXVII. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency.2 (pt. 1)
31CHAPTER XXVII. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency.2 (pt. 2)
32CHAPTER XXVIII. On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena.3 (pt. 1)
33CHAPTER XXVIII. On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena.3 (pt. 2)
34CHAPTER XXIX. Tesla Alternating Current Generators for High Frequency, in Detail.
35CHAPTER XXX. Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus.6
36CHAPTER XXXI. "Massage" With Currents of High Frequency.7
37CHAPTER XXXII. Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes.8
38CHAPTER XXXIII. Method of Obtaining Driect From Alternating Currents.
39CHAPTER XXXIV. Condensers with Plates in Oil.
40CHAPTER XXXV. Electrolytic Registering Meter.
41CHAPTER XXXVI. Thermo-Magnetic Motors and Pyro-Magnetic Generators.
42CHAPTER XXXVII. Anti-Sparking Dynamo Brush and Commutator.
43CHAPTER XXXVIII. Auxiliary Brush Regulation of Direct Current Dynamos.
44CHAPTER XXXIX. Improvement in the Construction of Dynamos and Motors.
45CHAPTER XL. Tesla Direct Current Arc Lighting System.
46CHAPTER XLI. Improvement in "Unipolar" Generators.
47CHAPTER XLII. Mr. Tesla's Personal Exhibit at the World's Fair.
48CHAPTER XLIII. The Tesla Mechanical and Electrical Oscillators.
49My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
50I. My Early Life.