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The Collected Works of Nikola Tesla (Annotated)

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The Collected Works of Nikola Tesla gathers the inventor's lectures, essays, technical papers, and autobiographical writings into a revealing record of modern electrical imagination. Its prose moves between rigorous scientific exposition and visionary speculation, explaining alternating-current systems, high-frequency apparatus, wireless transmission, robotics, and energy distribution with unusual rhetorical clarity. Read in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the volume captures a decisive moment when laboratory experiment, industrial modernity, and utopian technological hope converged. Nikola Tesla, born in 1856 in Smiljan and later active in Budapest, Paris, and the United States, brought to his work a rare combination of mathematical intuition, mechanical discipline, and almost poetic visual imagination. His struggles with Edison, his triumphs with Westinghouse, and his lifelong preoccupation with universal power and communication shaped the writings collected here, which often read as both scientific testimony and personal manifesto. This book is highly recommended for readers interested in the history of science, electrical engineering, invention, and technological culture. It rewards specialists with primary documents and general readers with the mind of a restless genius thinking aloud. 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.

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Length48 hrs 48 mins

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Publish dateOct 26, 2020

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1The Chemical History of a Candle (Annotated)

2The Collected Works of Nikola Tesla

3My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (pt. 1)

4My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (pt. 2)

5Lectures

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6A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers

7Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Lecture)

8Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (pt. 1)

9Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (pt. 2)

10On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena (pt. 1)

11On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena (pt. 2)

12On Electricity

13My Submarine Destroyer

14High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes

15Scientific Articles

16Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer

17Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency

18Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination (Article)

19Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus

20An Electrolytic Clock

21Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes

22Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo

23The "Drehstrom" Patent

24The Ewing High-Frequency Alternator and Parson's Steam Engine

25On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator

26The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents

27Nikola Tesla - About His Experiments in Electrical Healing

28The Age of Electricity

29The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (pt. 1)

30The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (pt. 2)

31Talking with Planets

32Can Bridge the Gap to Mars

33Little Aeroplane Progress

34How to Signal to Mars

35The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires

36The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity

37Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision

38Correction by Mr. Tesla

39The True Wireless

40On Roentgen Rays (1)

41On Roentgen Rays (2) - Latest Results

42Tesla's Latest Results - He Now Produces Radiographs at a Distance of More Than Forty Feet

43On Reflected Roentgen Rays

44On Roentgen Radiations

45Roentgen Ray Investigations

46An Interesting Feature of X-Ray Radiations

47Roentgen Rays or Streams

48On the Roentgen Streams

49On Hurtful Actions of Lenard and Roentgen Tubes

50On the Source of Roentgen Rays and the Practical Construction and Safe Operation of Lenard Tubes

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