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My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla My Inventions – Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Table of Contents I. My Early Life. II. My First Efforts At Invention III. My Later Endeavors IV. The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer V. The Magnifying Transmitter VI. The Art of Telautomatics

Lectures Lectures Table of Contents

A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers

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

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena

On Electricity

My Submarine Destroyer

High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes

Scientific Articles

Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer

Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency

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

Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus

An Electrolytic Clock

Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes

Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo

The "Drehstrom" Patent

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

On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator

The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents

Nikola Tesla - About His Experiments in Electrical Healing

The Age of Electricity

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

Talking with Planets

Can Bridge the Gap to Mars

Little Aeroplane Progress

How to Signal to Mars

The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires

The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity

Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision

Correction by Mr. Tesla

The True Wireless

On Roentgen Rays (1)

On Roentgen Rays (2) - Latest Results

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

On Reflected Roentgen Rays

On Roentgen Radiations

Roentgen Ray Investigations

An Interesting Feature of X-Ray Radiations

Roentgen Rays or Streams

On the Roentgen Streams

On Hurtful Actions of Lenard and Roentgen Tubes

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

High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes (September 1898)

Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work

Tesla's New Discovery - Capacity of Electrical Conductors is Variable

Tesla’s Wireless Light

Tuned Lightning

Tesla's Wireless Torpedo

Tesla's Tidal Wave to Make War Impossible

Possibilities of Wireless

My Apparatus, Says Tesla

Mr. Tesla's Vision

What Science May Achieve This Year - New Mechancial Principle for Conservation of Energy

The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation On the Wireless Transmission of Energy

How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies

Some Personal Recollections

Wonders of the Future

Electric Drive for Battle Ships

A Lighting Machine on Novel Principles

Electrical Oscillators

Letters to Magazine Editors

Mr. Nikola Tesla on Alternate Current Motors

The Losses Due to Hysteresis in Transformers

The Tesla Alternate Current Motor

Tesla's New Alternating Motors

Alternate Current Motors

Electro-motors

Phenomena of Currents of High Frequency

Mr. Tesla on Thermo Electricity

Nicola Tesla Objects

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Table of Contents

I. My Early Life.

II. My First Efforts At Invention

III. My Later Endeavors

IV. The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer

V. The Magnifying Transmitter

VI. The Art of Telautomatics

Table of Contents

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements.

Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment, so much that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.

In attempting to give a connected and faithful account of my activities in this series of articles which will be presented with the assistance of the Editors of the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER and are chiefly addrest to our young men readers, I must dwell, however reluctantly, on the impressions of my youth and the circumstances and events which have been instrumental in determining my career.

Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, tho not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies. Indeed, I feel now that had I understood and cultivated instead of suppressing them, I would have added substantial value to my bequest to the world. But not until I had attained manhood did I realize that I was an inventor.

This was due to a number of causes. In the first place I had a brother who was gifted to an extraordinary degree—one of those rare phenomena of mentality which biological investigation has failed to explain. His premature death left my parents disconsolate. We owned a horse which had been presented to us by a dear friend. It was a magnificent animal of Arabian breed, possest of almost human intelligence, and was cared for and petted by the whole family, having on one occasion saved my father's life under remarkable circumstances. My father had been called one winter night to perform an urgent duty and while crossing the mountains, infested by wolves, the horse became frightened and ran away, throwing him violently to the ground. It arrived home bleeding and exhausted, but after the alarm was sounded immediately dashed off again, returning to the spot, and before the searching party were far on the way they were met by my father, who had recovered consciousness and remounted, not realizing that he had been lying in the snow for several hours. This horse was responsible for my brother's injuries from which he died. I witnest the tragic scene and altho fifty-six years have elapsed since, my visual impression of it has lost none of its force. The recollection of his attainments made every effort of mine seem dull in comparison.