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Pages: 240
Publisher: Twenty First Century Books
Year: 2002
ISBN: 1893817016
ISBN: 978-1893817012
Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview (Tesla Presents Series, Part 1) (Buy Now)

Nikola Tesla
Leland I. Anderson

This is the transcript of an extended three day interview of Nikola Tesla conducted by his legal counsel in 1916 in preparation for expert testimony in impending radio patent cases.  In an account that was never intended for publication, Tesla describes his pioneering investigations into the nature of alternating currents as applied to wireless transmission.  In a style uniquely his own, he carefully traces his work from the first high frequency alternators that were constructed at his Grand Street laboratory in New York City, and their associated tuned circuits through the establishment of his huge broadcasting facility, the mighty Wardenclyffe Plant, located at Shoreham, Long Island.  Among the variety of topics discussed are: high frequency alternators, experiments with wireless telegraphy and telephony, mechanical and electrical oscillators, the Colorado experiments, theory and technique of energy transmission, the Long Island plant, and arrangements for receiving.  The previously untold story found within the pages of this remarkable book has been described by the prominent Tesla researcher James Corum as a "veritable Rosetta stone" for tracing the technical thoughts of one of our most distinguished engineering scientists.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface
Introduction

Section

  1. High Frequency Alternators
  2. Experiments with Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony
  3. Mechanical and Electrical Oscillators
  4. Apparatus for Transformation by Condenser Discharges; Damped Waves
  5. Apparatus for Transformation by Condenser Discharges; Continuous Waves
  6. Colorado Experiments
  7. Theory and Technique of Energy Transmission
  8. Long Island Plant
  9. Arrangements for Receiving
  10. Rediscussion/Clarification of Selected Remarks

Appendix

  1. Fig. 1. Photograph of Tesla with alternator in offices of The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., May 10, 1938.
  2. Fig. 2. Photograph of 1915 shipboard transmitter employing the Tesla spiral form of antenna transformer coil.
  3. Tesla's description of Long Island plant and inventory of the installation as reported in 1922 foreclosure appeal proceedings.