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Prodigal Genius BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA TESLA 1994 Brotherhood of Life, Inc., 110 Dartmouth, SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA…
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teeth which greatly resembled the triangular blade of the adz. The name Draganic and derivatives of it appear frequently in other branches…
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(N.Y.), he waxed enthusiastic about the work of Dolivo Dobrowolsky in designing the three-phase motor and its associated system, hailing it…
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Cc. E. L. Brown, the engineer in charge of the pioneering Lauffen-Frankfurt 30,000-volt transmission system and its three-phase generating…
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Thus the scientists and engineers in the United States, Germany and Italy gave Tesla clear and unquestioned credit for being the sole…
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The resentments and antagonisms engendered by the unvarying series of successful decisions caused individuals who were adversely affected…
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He demonstrated that he could cause any one of hundreds of coils to respond selectively and powerfully to its particular wavelength emitted…
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planned to take his receiving set up the Hudson River on a small boat to test its response at extended distances. with Tesla, as with…
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thousand dollars of the proposed half-million dollars of capital stock of the company. with this support Tesla proceeded to set up a new…
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willing to put forth even a slight effort in that direction, but he was interested mainly in getting his experiments well under way rather…
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compass. And this has been done with a surprisingly small expenditure of energy. Naturally, Mr. Tesla is averse to explaining all details…
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patent pirates, with whom he had previously had unpleasant experiences. The Electrical Review, naturally enough, was fearful of the…
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own account to exceed the great accomplishment his brother might have attained had he lived, he unconsciously drew upon strange resources…
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annoyance by creating "cross talk," or a mixing of conversations over two telephone circuits located close to each other. fi. M. Preece, in…
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was simultaneously seeking to measure equally small electrical waves in wire circuits. This, then, had been the situation in the scientific…
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I think it may find practical applications in telegraphy. with such a brush it would be possible to send dispatches across the Atlantic,…
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This, however, would be a purely local effect, whereas his radio transmission system was one planned on a world-wide basis requiring much…
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counting the mileposts, the earth may appear very large; but to the happiest of all men, the astronomer, who gazes at the heavens, and by…
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whether this be possible or not, and whether the earth contains a charge or not, and whatever may be its period of vibration, it is…
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Tesla thus presented in these lectures the principles which he had learned in his laboratory experiments, during the previous three years,…
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than an electrical searchlight. He did, however, bring an alternative feature to replace the parabolic beam reflector. This was a ground…
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discovered by Tesla; and adoption of Tesla's continuous waves. In addition, these groping workers saw in wireless only a point-to-point or…
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Because of their relatively short wavelength, it was comparatively easy to build condensers for tuning the circuits. when a circuit is…
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peculiar reaction when breathing deeply. When he breathed deeply he was overcome by a feeling of lightness, as if his body had lost all…
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The quarter-wavelength coil is the electrical counterpart of the vibrating tine of the tuning fork, the ordinary clock pendulum, or the…
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diameter. He sealed one end of each, slightly evacuated the air from the tubes and then sealed the other ends. Tesla told the workmen he…
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the setting sun, there had flashed into his mind, as we have seen, not only the marvelous invention of the rotary Magnetic field and the…
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substituted for air in his tubes other gases, including mercury vapor, and observed the peculiar color and other effects they yielded.…
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the devices operate just as if the short-circuiting bar were not present. One of his startling experiments consisted of placing a long…
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Nature as Tesla planned; but this was not known when he evolved his idea. The flow of a suficient amount of the electricity in the right…
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by means of metal cables suspended from balloons is entirely impractical. ) This proposal by Tesla to transform the earth into a giant lamp…
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connection. He pointed out that the earth is a good conductor of electricity and the upper air is also a good conductor, while the…
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enormous speeds, and in this way, with trillions of invisible hammers, pound it until it gets incandescent. Or we may place a body in a…
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Tesla thus evolved a technique in operating the lamps whereby the incandescent button transferred its heat energy to the molecules of the…
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get broken accidentally by getting in the way of his hemp wad, his inventive proclivities in this field were quickly curbed by the…
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refractory carbon beads could be shattered into atomic dust by the bombardment of the electrified particles. He sought to detect these…
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ordinary materials by bombarding them with particles in just the manner which Tesla described. Joliot received the Nobel Prize for his…
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character, and if one of these is more easily disintegrated than the others, most of the electricity supplied is carried off from that…
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in a word for a description of the million-magnification point electron microscope. Quoting from his lecture: To the eye the electrode…
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This "very special radiation" was not further described at that time in published articles; but when Prof. fiilhelm Konrad Roentgen, in…
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TEN TESLA had a remarkable ability for carrying on simultaneously a number of widely different lines of scientific research. while pursuing…
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friends. It was a mechanical oscillator, and was used to produce vibrations. The motor-driven device that the barber straps on his hand to…
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the floor by rubber and cork. He then mounted the oscillator on the under side of the platform. The purpose of the rubber and cork under…
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his lower lip, straightened his body and stalked stiffy but suddenly from the platform. "Quick, Tesla! Where is it?" snapped Clemens, half…
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Tesla's laboratory was on an upper floor of a loft building. It was on the north side of Houston Street, and the second house east of…
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Tesla felt strange and defeated in his ignorance of city ways. He met the situation first by avoidance. He did not care to leave his home.…
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anything queer was happening in the neighborhood, they knew that Tesla was in back of it in some way or other. On this particular morning…
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the middle of the room. Pandemonium gave way to a deep, heavy silence. Tesla was the first to break the silence. Resting his sledge hammer…
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oscillator was firmly fixed to a supporting column and there were similar supporting columns directly under it on each floor down to the…
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The device was made of cast iron and was of rugged construction. There were no delicate parts that could be easily damaged. Tesla has never…
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at a distance, even though they were lying at anchor and no engines operating on them. His system of telegeodynamics, using mechanical…
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Extending upward from the center of the roof of the boat was a Slender metal rod a few feet high which served as an antenna, or &aerial,…
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earlier designed an electric torpedo which received its power by a cable that remained connected with the mother ship. ) Tesla was…
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organs, and one or more sensitive organs so adapted as to be excited by external stimuli. This machine would, I reasoned, perform its…
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By the simple means described the knowledge, experience, judgement--the mind, so to speak--of the distant operator were embodied in that…
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absolutely controlling in every respect, all the innumerable translatory movements, as well as the operations of all the internal organs,…
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Tesla was among the usual group of urchins that always manages to get inside the lines on such occasions. He tried to see everything that…
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condensers, because the discharges of my high tension transmitter ionized the air in the hall so that even a very small &aerial would draw…
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In an imperfect manner it is practicable, with the existing wireless plants, to launch an aeroplane, have it follow a certain approximate…
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judgment. But my proposal was deemed chimerical at that time and nothing came from it." Tesla, at the Madison Square Garden demonstration…
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miles to a selected target, dropped its bombs, and returned to its home airport, all by wireless control. It was also developed so that on…
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Again Tesla was faced with a financial problem or, to state the matter simply, he was broke. The $40,000 which was paid for the stock of…
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rushed. He gave his personal supervision to even the finest details of every piece of apparatus. He was working in a virgin field. None had…
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I have had many opportunities for checking this value by observation of explosions and lightning discharges. An ideal case of this kind…
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was a coil about ten feet in diameter, of about seventy - five turns of wire wound on a cylindrical skeletonized framework of wood. It had…
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In the middle of June, while preparations for other work were going on, I arranged one of my receiving transformers with the view of…
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near by. This puzzled me very much. what was the cause? A number of observations proved that it could not be due to differences in the…
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and which even their fathers could not do. He had found himself. He was now a hero, and it could be forgotten that he had jumped on a…
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brought out, still more forcibly and unmistakably, the true nature of the wonderful phenomenon. No doubt whatever remained: I was observing…
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In Tesla's experiments the lightning discharges that played the part of the plunger causing the waves were moving rapidly to the eastward,…
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had planned the experiment so that the first bolts of man- made lightning ever created would shoot from the top of the 200-foot-tall mast.…
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Reaching a point outside from which he could see the copper ball on top of the needlelike mast, Tesla called through the door, "Czito,…
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become longer and more powerful if he approached the switch? Must this head-splitting racket go on forever? It's getting worse, that…
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Tesla rushed into the building. "Czito! Czito! Czito! why did you do that? I did not tell you to open the switch. Close it again quickly!"…
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operated independently from the one supplying the Company's regular customers. The independent dynamo, he was told, would be the one that…
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experiments effects were developed incomparably greater than ever produced by any human agencies, and yet these results are but an embryo…
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would be hurled outward from the earth with vast energies, and eventually even the solid matter of the earth would be affected and the…
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current and the length, or inductance, of the coil through which the discharge must travel. An arc between the joint terminals of condenser…
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with about the diameter of a pea. A piece of thread acting as a driving belt was slipped over this and also around the circumference of a…
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concentrated on a small metal ball on top of the mast, upon which tremendously high potentials developed. The electrons on the ball were…
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his experiments, and what is recorded is mostly of a minor nature. Fundamental facts of great importance that he intended to develop later…
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little--in fact, almost nothing--whether the transmission is effected at a distance of a few miles, or of a few thousand miles." "while I…
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when the article was written, Johnson returned it, telling Tesla he had served a mess of cold philosophical stones instead of a dish of hot…
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learned that Tesla was a lone operator and now entirely without funds needed to carry on his researches. Morgan knew well the inestimable…
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A Morgan would understand that ingenious minds could work out some method for placing such world-wide services on a practical profit-paying…
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interest was entirely that of a patron seeking to aid a genius to express his creative talents. He made gifts to Tesla to which there were…
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upon a gigantic venture, the building of a world wireless- power and a world broadcasting station. The cash on hand would be totally…
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Tesla's work, offered to underwrite the cost of designing the strange tower the inventor sketched, and all of the architectural work…
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from the Waldorf-Astoria to Wardencliff, arriving at the near-by Shoreham station shortly after eleven am and remaining until three-thirty.…
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One of the requirements, and one to which an unusually large percentage of the class time was devoted throughout the four years, was…
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one made of wrought iron. Tesla was unable to secure a wrought-iron cap for the upper surface, so he used a heavier one of cast iron, a…
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burned them that it was feared for a while that his sight could not be saved. However, despite the almost unlimited possibilities for…
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Tesla at this time published a brochure on his "World System" which indicates the remarkable state of advancement he had projected in the…
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2. The Magnifying Transmitter. This is Tesla's best invention--a peculiar transformer specially adapted to excite the Earth, which is in…
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2. Establishment of a secret and non-interferable government telegraph service; 3. Interconnection of all the present telephone exchanges…
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successful outcome of his efforts that he stated in a newspaper interview in 1903 that he would light the lamps of the coming international…
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currents and in each instance a terminal a little above the roof will be suffcient. Another valuable application will be the driving of…
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of money that were necessary to develop his other inventions. As we have seen, he was utterly lacking in the phase of personality that made…
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When it became apparent that Tesla was in financial diffculties, many who had assumed that Morgan was financially involved as an investor…
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with the business world. The more he knew Tesla, the better he liked him; and the more respect he had for his genius and his ability as an…
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His teachers, at first, had some doubts about his honesty, thinking he had worked out some clever deceit for getting the right answers. In…
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Scherff can look back today, as he sits on the porch of his Westchester home, and decide, through a retrospect of fifty years, that his…
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WHEN his World Wireless System project crashed, Tesla turned again to a project to which he had given considerable thought at the time he…
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and the device was suspended in a fire, the reaction of the steam coming out of the tubes caused the device to rotate. Tesla's ingenious…
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devoted to the development of currents of high potential and high frequency, had entailed a delay which gave opportunity for developers of…
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the turning movement was so great it appreciably stretched the metal in the rotating disks. Their diameter when turning at top speed was…
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Morgan backing, and that the Edison Company was a "Morgan company," had no nullifying effect on the Edison-Tesla feud. This situation was…
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with full pressure of the supply circuit. If the turbine were compounded and the exhaust were led to a low pressure unit carrying about…
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increased a thousand fold. It was stories such as these that contributed to the imputation that Tesla was an impractical visionary. The…
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under 125 pounds pressure. A much larger engine was tackled next. It had fifteen disks sixty inches in diameter, was designed to operate at…
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The gas turbine was never constructed for the reason that the company was unable to obtain suffcient engineering information from Mr. Tesla…
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future or to have come to us from the mystical realm of the gods, for he seemed to be an admixture of a Jupiter or a Thor who hurled the…
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circumvent this ruling by taking candles to his room and reading after he was sent to bed, but his violation of orders was soon discovered…
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through a storm of tepid rain--so fast that the drops of condensed steam cut like a sand blast. Dahlstrand reported that diffculties were…
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FOURTEEN THE highest honor which the world can confer upon its scholars is the Nobel Prize founded by Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish…
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Tesla was the first, and probably the only, scientist to refuse this famous prize. One of the highest honors in the engineering world, too,…
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Behrend believed, therefore, that he was rendering Tesla a token of his highest appreciation when he managed to maneuver the award of the…
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earlier, when Tesla was invited to address the Institute, he had had ample laboratory facilities, and had invested a great deal of time,…
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multitudinous activities associated with a convention. The party entered the elevators which carried them to the large auditorium on the…
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None but Behrend knew of Tesla's aversion to accepting the Edison Medal, yet even he had not the slightest knowledge of what had become of…
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auditorium. Something caused him to halt. Such an abrupt action seemed almost sacrilegious. As he hesitated momentarily, Tesla caught sight…
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interesting to recall here tonight that in Lord Kelvin's support to Mr. Adams, Lord Kelvin recommended the use of direct current for the…
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which, in the absence of the limiting influence of a written copy, became quite lengthy. It is doubtful if anyone in the audience, or on…
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rather that we sometimes deceive ourselves in interpreting what our senses tell us. In breathing deeply he was overventilating his lungs,…
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When Tesla was talking as a scientist he was opposed to wars on moral, economic and all practical and theoretical grounds. But, like most…
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There are indications, at any rate, that Tesla was working on a high-potential direct-current system for generating and transmitting…
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he would not apply for patents until he had made actual working models, and he could not make the working models because he had no money.…
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Still another item which has interested me is a report from Washington in the World Telegram of July 13, 1934, to the effect that…
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needed to make his ray practical, I also reviewed the properties of all known particles of matter, and stated that none of these would…
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can now be flashed through interstellar space to any distance without the slightest dispersion. I had in mind to confer with my friend,…
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not inconsistent with the modern theories. The antagonism was probably attributable to psychological factors rather than scientific…
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although it is diffcult to make an intelligent surmise without knowledge of his postulates. If published, it might have had some influence…
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matter, as described by Sir William Crookes, who discovered it. Tesla visualized it as associated with but not a part of the atom. The…
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Tesla thereupon let me know in no uncertain terms that he held very definite ideas concerning efforts on the part of others to do his…
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ordinary air pump with its valves reversed, he found the box was airtight, so he pulled out all the air, watching the cylinder intently…
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Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or a tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the…
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phenomena, a situation which militated against the discovery of any new agencies. The civilizations of the ancient world knew nothing of…
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with its surface, each connected to the others by complex nerve fibers, like threads sewing together the layers of an onion. The outer…
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far different from the original experience of sight out of which the original memory record was made. If, however, in this process of…
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During my boyhood I had suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, which were often accompanied by strong flashes…
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about the problem without any deliberate concentration. This is a period of incubation. Then follows a period of direct effort. I choose…
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impressions to the mind, must be under a peculiar stress or in a vibratory state. It now does not seem improbable that, when by the power…
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he had possessed the ability to take others into his confidence in his experiments, he would have been able to stage some simple tests in…
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friends, who had the opportunity to convince themselves of the truth of the theory which I have gradually formulated and which may be…
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"psychic experiences." He was emphatic in his denial that he ever had experiences of that sort; yet he has related incidents that clearly…
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improvements which would give him a high vacuum, and studied the valve to make that a better guard of the vacuum in the box. He worked on…
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"This difference, which you admit between yourself and others, Dr. Tesla, completely disproves your theory, from my viewpoint," I…
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ALTHOUGH Tesla thoroughly disbelieved in psychical phenomena, as previously indicated, he had many experiences which belong in this…
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that registers any disturbance. He declared that each man is like an automaton which reacts to external impressions. "He told me of one…
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them and more and more of my previous existence was revealed. The image of my mother was always the principal figure in the spectacle that…
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Two or three months before I was in London in company with my late friend, Sir William Crookes, when spiritualism was discussed and I was…
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understood as such; and, three, that the event took place at the exact time of her death. The mechanism by which the phenomenon was…
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with the fighters, and in contrast with all the others was Tesla. Laurence, with his great mop of jet black hair combed straight back,…
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"No, he won't lose the fight," shot back Tesla. "You must think of the heroes of our national Serbian poetry. They were redblooded men and…
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conscious of the situation, I watched developments with interest. I had experienced such conditions previously but never under such…
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would release an emotional outburst. In addition, we had Dr. Tesla staging an emotional outburst the like of which he probably never before…
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rolled until it was a large ball and then spread out, rolling up the snow at the sides as if it were rolling up a giant carpet, and then…
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deliver it as quickly as possible. It was addressed to "Mr. Samuel Clemens, 35 South Fifth Ave., New York City." Kerrigan returned in a…
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In view of Tesla's highly intensified abilities to see the subjects of his thoughts as materialized objects, the simpler theory would be…
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directed attention to his own successes, never wrote up again his old work, and rarely claimed priority though continually pirated. Such…
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"Power to all my thought he gives" "But outside he has no control." It had been Tesla's intention to write his autobiography. He desired to…
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anniversary. A week of observance was held throughout Yugoslavia and formal celebrations were held at Belgrade on May 26, 27 and 28, at…
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Ferncliff Cemetery at Ardsley, N. Y., and was later cremated. AFTERGLOW EIGHTEEN DESPITE his celibate life, and his almost hermitlike…
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Citizen of August 22, 1897. The portion referring to his personal appearance and activities follows: So far as personal appearance goes no…
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No stranger ever sees him at his work. No one knows of his assistants. At rare intervals he presents some experiments in his laboratory,…
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the top of his head, where ideas are born, and up there he has plenty of room. His hair is jet black and curly. He stoops--most men do when…
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This same man magnificent who graced the Waldorf-Astoria and Delmonico's was not averse, however, to visiting the Bowery, which was but a…
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require a genius among the adults to have evolved the project of controlling the world's weather through such means. There was, however, a…
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the back of the neck, he ran him around the room, beating the dust out of the seat of his trousers until the man cried for mercy. "Do you…
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of poetry was one of the several interests they had in common. Johnson wrote, and published in the Century, in April, 1895, a short poem on…
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Hobson was the only person who was able to cajole Tesla into breaking a long vigil at his intellectual pursuits for a session at the…
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takes a man at his own valuation, as expressed in his appearance, and frequently eases his way to his objective through small courtesies…
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a napkin between his hand and the utensil, and use another napkin to clean it. He could then drop both napkins on the floor. Even for a…
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recognize the fact that the desire for it remained. He combated this by ordering with each meal a pot of his favorite coffee, and having a…
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insistent upon the barber placing a clean towel on his chair but, strangely enough, he did not object to the use of the common shaving mug…
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Tesla never knew the experience of having a headache. In spite of a number of cases of serious illness, in his independent years he was…
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but was extremely impatient with stupidity and carelessness. Although Tesla maintained a staff of draughtsmen, he never used them in his…
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executive, type of mind. He was able to attract brilliant associates and to delegate to them major portions of his inventive research…
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to go to the library he had quantities of the books brought to his home, and these he read while confined to his bed. His illness reached a…
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Tesla was thoroughly impractical throughout, too, in handling money matters. When he was working on the Union Sulphur Company turbine…
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light was admitted and night conditions were simulated. The inventor, as remarked, was a "sun dodger." He appeared to be at his best at…
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Tesla never married; no woman, with the exception of his mother and his sisters, ever shared the smallest fraction of his life. He idolized…
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alternating-current system he had offered them but had cheated him of his just earnings. Now he was returning to that city after receiving…
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"Many times has Nikola Tesla known that supreme happiness," said the interviewer, "and he is likely to know it often again. It is…
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have lacked anything they desired if he had had suffcient funds with which to satisfy their wishes. His promises, however, were always to…
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home and get into a sensible dress and return as soon as you can so you can take this letter down town for me." Tesla never addressed any…
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over from the materialistic, agnostic views which were fashionable and prevalent among scientists in the formative period of his youth.…
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intelligently coordinated system of any form of non- rational animal life--the all governing supremacy of the instinct for immortality…
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energy sources, to work out their destiny. And more important is the fact that the bees can never hope to use advanced intellectual powers…
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Tesla relates that he was hungry all during the three years he spent at Karlovac. There was plenty of deliciously prepared food in the…
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When he started the practice, and no one knows just when that was, he was always dressed in the height of fashion and some of the world's…
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In addition to feeding the birds in the streets, Tesla took care of pigeons in his rooms in the various hotels in which he made his home.…
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"Until she receives further orders from me--" "There is plenty of feed in Mr. Tesla's room." "There is plenty of feed in Mr. Tesla's room."…
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died in his room at the hotel, and that he desired to have it properly buried on Czito's property where the grave could be cared for.…
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the problem of vacating the offce immediately. Within a few hours the entire contents of the offces were stored in a near-by offce…
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accident, and three ribs broken, but the full extent of his injuries will never be known for, in keeping with his almost lifelong custom,…
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mysteries where they served a useful purpose, for upon an unknown it is possible to build a greater unknown. The mystical experiences of…
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philosophy, as applied to his work, were incarcerated in a limbo of his personality, seeking an outlet into the paradise of expression and…
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needed me, nothing else mattered. As long as I had her, there was a purpose in my life. "Then one night as I was lying in my bed in the…
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that would have brought enlightenment, he would have understood the symbolism of the Dove. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MUCH valuable aid has been…
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him and seeking to thwart him in his burning desire to start immediately unraveling the mystery and harnessing the great power of…
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the Scientific American; Myrta L. Mason, and Charles F. Pflaging, for bibliographic aid; G. Edward Pendray and his associates in the…
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bending intently over him and fearing the end had come, seized him. "Nikola," he commanded, "you cannot go. you must stay. you will be an…
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superpower system and his robot controls in industry made it possible for politicians to have available a tremendous surplus of power,…
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But there was something he had forgotten, everyone in the family had forgotten, in the stress of his months of illness. It was now brought…
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amount of power to overcome it that it made the project totally impracticable. Since, however, he was working on the project entirely for…
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With his health regained, and the danger of punishment by the Army removed, Tesla returned to his home in Gospic to remain a short time…
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Under such a schedule he was able to pass, at the end of the first term, his examinations in nine subjects- -nearly twice as many as were…
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and as long as a magnet has two poles each of which acts oppositely on the current, we will have to use a commutator to change, at the…
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Prof. Poeschl, however, deviated from his set program of lectures and devoted the next one to Tesla's objections. With methodical…
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instinct, for lack of a better name. But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. we undoubtedly have in our brains some finer…
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players. He also developed a passion for billiards and chess, in both of which he became remarkably proficient. The fondness for…
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that he would make the important discovery that would greatly expand the infant science to the powerful giant of the future. It would have…
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more descriptively called a loud speaker--an ancestor of the sound producer now so common in the home radio set. This invention was never…
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The superman that Tesla designed was a scientific saint. The inventions that this scientific martyr produced were designed for the peace,…
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Throughout this mysterious illness he was fighting with powerful desire to recover his normal condition. He had before him a task he must…
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"Upon its track to follow, follow soaring" Tesla, tall, lean and gaunt, but with a fire in his eye that matched the flaming clouds of the…
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me, running almost silently? It is the rotating magnetic field that does it. See how the magnetic field rotates and drags the armature…
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what Tesla did was to use two circuits, each one carrying the same frequency of alternating-current, but in which the current waves were…
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He worked out the design of dynamos, motors, transformers and all other devices for a complete alternating-current system. He multiplied…
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from the gift to the world of his discovery. The method by which this would work out did not interest him nearly so much as the necessity…
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traveling assignment as a "trouble shooter" which required him to visit electrical installations in various parts of France and Germany.…
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he had calculated mentally for each item. He did not have to test parts through partial assembly. He knew they would fit. From these parts…
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drew an unbounded sense of self-confidence; he could think and work his way to any goal he set. There was good reason for Tesla's…
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dynamos, and for the automatic regulators for dynamos. It was possible that this would supply him with enough cash to build a full-size…
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electricity to distant cities, is a monument to Tesla; every powerhouse, every dynamo and every motor that drives every machine in the…
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control of the greatest and most profitable electrical invention ever made. One of the administrators of the company, Mr. Charles…
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The ship offered little to interest him. He explored it thoroughly and in doing so made some contacts with members of the ship's company.…
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of technical articles he had written, calculations for designing a flying machine, and some mathematical work done in an effort to solve an…
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light system--the former located in downtown Pearl Street and serving a relatively small radius of territory. Tesla was favorably impressed…
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few weeks later he had an opportunity to demonstrate his ability. Edison had installed one of his electric-light plants on the steamship…
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many ways in which the dynamos could be improved in design to operate more efficiently. He outlined his plan to Edison, and stressed the…
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were cast upon his ability as an engineer and an inventor. When he sought to convert the certificate into cash, he found that the shares of…
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powerhouses were operating in several cities and, in addition, he had the support of the famous financier, J. P. Morgan. Tesla, on the…
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machinery--for single-phase, two-phase and three-phase currents--and made experiments with four- and six-phase currents. In each of the…
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the patents were issued. (They were numbered 381,968; 381,969; 381,970; 382,279; 382,280; 382,281 and 382,282. These covered his single and…
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of the individual with his kind, that the improved status may be propagated and become a legacy of all. Tesla intentionally engineered love…
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it. He produced a tidal wave of advancement which carried the electrical world into the opening of the new power age in one grand…
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If the amount of current carried by a wire is doubled, the heat losses are increased four fold; if the current is tripled, these losses are…
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the current was increased to the carrying capacity of the wire no further expansion was possible on that circuit. With the Tesla system the…
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Tesla had given no specific thought to commercializing his work at this time. He was in the midst of a program of experimental work which…
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decision a month after Tesla's lecture. Having done this, he forwarded a brief note to Tesla, making an engagement to see him in the…
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The amount involved was unquestionably a record one, for that time, for an invention. while Tesla liked to think of his complete polyphase…
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inventor, interested mainly in principles, and engineers interested in practical design problems. Very definite problems were encountered…
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There had been considerable conflict between Edison, who adhered strictly to direct current, and those who supported the claims for…
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One merger, internally initiated and arranged by mutual consent, brought together the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General…
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usual procedures and would not be a burden on the company, as it was included in costs of production, was paid for by the customers, and…
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Both father and mother contributed to the child a valuable heritage of culture developed and passed on by ancestral families that had been…
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the same good faith he was trying to handle a much less satisfactory situation. Perhaps he could offer Tesla an executive position in the…
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four years before. Without preliminaries or apologies Westinghouse explained the situation. "your decision," said the Pittsburgh magnate,…
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promise to Tesla to make his alternating-current system available to the world. Probably nowhere in history is there recorded so…
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when Tesla left the Westinghouse plant at Pittsburgh in 1889 to return to his laboratory in New York, he entered a new world. The…
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need money. He would, he then believed, have royalties in the millions from his alternating-current patents. He could spend as freely as he…
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which his polyphase system would operate most efficiently. His calculations indicated important changes in characteristics and effects as…
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for even more efficient power transmission than his very practical 60-cycle polyphase system. He therefore carried on a parallel line of…
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could be operated by compressed air or steam. It was supplied with ports like a small two-cycle marine engine. A rod extended from the…
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elastically into the inductance coil, which stores the energy by building up its magnetic field. When the current ceases to flow in the…
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condenser was discharged the electricity flowed out of one plate into the other, like water being poured from a glass, thus establishing…
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The remarkable abilities of this clever woman who had no formal education were transmitted to her five children. The elder son, Dane Tesla,…
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about 100,000 volts, but, more important, he was able to produce phenomena which included, electrical sheets of flame, and a variety of new…
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wonders that fired the imagination of all and exceeded the understanding of the vast majority of the population. In addition Tesla was a…
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position of leader and simultaneously play all of the instruments in a great symphony orchestra, he would have been still better pleased.…
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and exquisite wines of the best vintages. His dinners were the talk of the town and having been a guest at a Tesla dinner was a mark of…
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he surmised the point would be near the lower end of the gap. Damage done to the body by electric shock he divided into two factors,…
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incandescent or vacuum-tube lamps after passing painlessly through his body. The European scientific societies were persistent in their…
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organization. Tesla could be plain stubborn in sticking to his plans, and in this case was exhibiting his usual firmness. The famous…
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autumn of 1889--at which time, too, he completed his U.S. citizenship requirements--he had made a brief visit to Paris to attend the…
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predicted, was the device that would permit receiving wireless telegraph messages across the Atlantic. Of all these discoveries we shall…
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the "man magnificent" supersede his "superman," and two years of valuable time had been largely lost. In addition, he had spent that…
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when the archbishop arrived, he listened to a sermon on "Labor." Months later Senj was surprised by an unanticipated visit from the…
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illustrated the principle of the rotating magnetic field produced by the polyphase alternating currents. In other of his exhibits, glass…
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Tesla had predicted nearly thirty years before, as a boy, that he would someday harness Niagara Falls. Here was the opportunity. In the…
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successor to the Edison General Electric Company, having in the meantime secured a license to use the Tesla patents, proposed to install a…
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while the hydraulic tunnel was under construction, the development of polyphase apparatus justified the oficial decision of May 6, 1893,…
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with the capacity of a score of the largest engines are now supplying power to the metropolis. Single powerhouses now supply more power…
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dynamos and motors which were tested by Prof. Anthony of Cornell University. On October 12, 1887, the first patent applications covering…
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a laboratory demonstration in optics, using an electrical analogy. Prof. Ferraris' next experiment mounted the copper cylinder on a shaft…
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principle involved may also have other applications, notably in the construction of meters for measuring the supply of electricity . A year…
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For several years past, from the days of Prof. Ferraris' investigations, which were followed by those of Tesla and Zipernowski and a host…
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leading English electricians does not hesitate to say that I have worked in the direction indicated by Prof. Ferraris, and in your issue…