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THE STRANGE LIFE OF NIKOLA TESLA
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of rare skill, courage and fortitude, who had braved the storms of life and passed through many a trying experience. When she was sixteen,…
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and distinctness and finally assumed the concreteness of real things. I soon discovered that my best comfort was attained if I simply went…
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I have referred. They were, perhaps, my strangest and [most] inexplicable experience. They usual y occurred when I found myself in a…
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character was weak and vacillating. I had neither courage or strength to form a firm resolve. My feelings came in waves and surges and…
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Chapter 2 I shall dwell briefly on these extraordinary experiences, on account of their possible interest to students of psychology and…
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“Well,” he said, lowering his voice. “I will tell you confidentially, but you must not say anything. He was employed for a long time in a…
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myself as usual. When I was a short distance from the masonry, however, I was horrified to observe that the water had risen and was…
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bushes were black with them. I would attach as many as four of them to a cross- piece, rotably arranged on a thin spindle, and transmit the…
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fired by raw recruits. My father was livid with rage. He gave me a gentle slap on the cheek, the only corporal punishment he ever…
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that I am able even now to digest cobble-stones! Nor can I pass in silence my performances with the sling which would have enabled me to…
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Editors Note, August 28, 1995 This text has been entered by John R.H. Penner from a small booklet found in a used bookstore for $2.50. The…
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Chapter 3 How Tesla Conceived The Rotary Magnetic Field At the age of ten I entered the Real gymnasium which was a new and fairly well…
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I had hardly completed my course at the Real Gymnasium when I was prostrated with a dangerous illness or rather, a score of them, and my…
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disease on the very day of my arrival and although surviving the crisis, I was confined to bed for nine months with scarcely any ability to…
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less useful. Then again, for the first time, I could choose my subjects as I liked, and free-hand drawing was to bother me no more. I had…
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became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of my youth. I started by first picturing in…
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never expected to recover. Can anyone believe that so hopeless a physical wreck could ever be transformed into a man of astonishing…
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Chapter 4 The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer (The Basic Part of Every Radio and T.V.) For a while I gave myself up entirely to…
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the Mechanical Department, offered to form a stock company. The proposal seemed to me comical in the extreme. I did not have the faintest…
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he investigated, debated, and decided that the lamp should be shifted back two inches, which was the placed I had marked! It was not long,…
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its lighting machines disabled and its sailing was delayed. As the super-structure had been built after their installation, it was…
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Introduction Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July 9, 1856, and died January 7, 1943. He was the…
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the tune was lost, necessitating readjustment, and did not yet foresee what I discovered long afterwards, — a means of operating a machine…
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Chapter 5 As I review the events of my past life I realise how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies. An incident of my youth…
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forward in a certain directions. In evolving them, I simply followed the inborn instinct to improve the present devices without any special…
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achievement. If we could produce electric effects of the required quality, this whole planet and the conditions of existence on it could be…
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insuring a small electric surface density everywhere, so that no leak can occur even if the conductor is bare. It is suitable for any…
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trical vibrations as revolutionary as gunpowder was in warfare. Currents many times stronger than any ever generated in the usual ways and…
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11) The inauguration of a system of world printing on land and sea; 12) The world reproduction of photographic pictures and all kinds of…
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Chapter 6 No subject to which I have ever devoted myself has called for such concentration of mind, and strained to so dangerous a degree…
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been caused by prolonged exertion of the brain. Imagine the pain and distress I felt, when it flashed upon my mind that a dispatch was…
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one of the popular thirty thousand institutions of this great city, where a delicious twelve per cent beverage was served, which can now be…
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NIKOLA TESLA IS THE TRUE UNSUNG PROPHET OF THE ELECTRIC AGE!; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power…
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came as a revelation to some simple-minded wireless folks whose experience was confined to forms of apparatus that could have been improved…
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he said, “but carloads of solid gold, and we will give you a liberal amount.” I told him that I wanted to see first what will be done with…
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thus able to exert, independently, its colossal strength and moral force to the benefit of all, more judiciously and effectively, than as a…
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selves with the request of discussing with me an important project. “Didn’t I tell you?,” I remarked triumphantly to my employees, and one…
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We all must have an ideal to govern our conduct and insure contentment, but it is immaterial whether it be one of creed, art, science, or…
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This machine was illustrated and described in my article in the Century Magazine of June, 1900; and other periodicals of that time and when…
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that it may prove of some usefulness in war. But there are to my best knowledge, no instrumentalities in existence today with which such an…
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October 13, 1933 The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
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The Strange Life of Nikla Tesla
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Chapter 1 My Early Life By Nikola Tesla The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important…
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But I was far from being considered a stupid boy, if I am to judge from an incident of which I have still a strong remembrance. One day the…