The Illustrated Tesla - Twenty Essential Essays, Lectures, and Papers with 214 Original Figures, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>Explore Nikola Tesla's revolutionary ideas exactly as he presented them-with the diagrams, apparatus drawings, and technical figures essential to understanding his work.</strong> This comprehensive illustrated collection brings together twenty of Tesla's most important essays, lectures, letters, and scientific papers, accompanied by approximately 214 original figures.</p><p>The volume includes <em>A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers</em>; <em>Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination</em>; <em>Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency</em>; <em>On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena</em>; <em>The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, with Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy</em>; <em>The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy</em>; <em>Famous Scientific Illusions</em>; and <em>Electrical Oscillators</em>, together with numerous additional writings.</p><p>Tesla's descriptions of alternating current, wireless transmission, electrical resonance, artificial illumination, radio, solar energy, and mechanical oscillation reveal both the precision of the working engineer and the imagination of a visionary. By restoring the visual material that accompanied these landmark texts, <em>The Illustrated Tesla</em> allows readers to encounter his experiments and theories as they were intended to be studied.</p>

• The Illustrated Tesla - Twenty Essential Essays, Lectures, and Papers with 214 Original Figures, (Hardcover)
• Author: Nikola Tesla
• ISBN: 9781604590272
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2007-08-07
• Page Count: 364