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Nikola Tesla Guided Weapons & Computer Technology (Tesla Presents Series, Part 3) (Buy Now)

Nikola Tesla

Leland I. Anderson

Gary L. Peterson

In this, the third book of the Tesla Presents Series, engineer-historian Leland Anderson provides the transcript of the 1902 U.S. Patent Interference investigation concerning Tesla\'s System of Signaling. The document, \"Nikola Tesla vs. Reginald A. Fessenden,\" which is no longer on file at the U.S. Patent Office, contains Tesla\'s own depositions as well as those of his closest and most trusted associates, George Scherff and Fritz Lowenstein. Included is material on the history of radio-controlled devices, the first practical form of these being Tesla\'s radio-controlled \"telautomaton\" ? an operational boat first demonstrated to the public at Madison Square Garden in 1898. In addition to describing Tesla\'s \"individualization\" techniques for obtaining secure noninterferable radio communications?the patent is today recognized as the fundamental AND logic gate, a critical element of every digital computer?the interference record also reveals that essential features of the spread-spectrum telecommunications techniques known as frequency-hopping and frequency-division multiplexing have their roots in the resulting patents. Furthermore, there are new disclosures by Tesla on the operation of his large high voltage radio-frequency oscillators at both the Houston Street laboratory and the Colorado experimental station. Rarely in the history of science do we encounter such opportunities to gain deep insight into the fundamental ideas and concepts of an esteemed scientist/inventor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
Introduction
  Nikola Tesla\'s technological legacy
     The setting
Tesla-Fessenden U.S. Patent Office Interference Case Transcript
Remote Control and The AND Logic Gate
  The beginnings of remote control
     Remote-controlled devices
     Tesla\'s wireless-controlled boats
     Need for secure control
     Tesla\'s \"individualization\" concept
     Later contenders
     Guided weapons
  The AND logic gate
     Electronic elements
     Non-electronic elements
       Fluid logic elements
         Tesla turbine
     High frequency, high voltage, conjoint oscillations
       demonstrating the AND function
     Progenitor of the computer industry
Appendix
     A. U.S. Patent No. 613,809, \"Method and Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vessel or Vehicles,\" Nov. 8, 1898.
     B. U.S. Patent No. 645,576, \"System of Transmission of Electrical Energy,\" Mar. 20, 1900.
     C. U.S. Patents, Nos. 685,953, 685,954, 685,955, and 685,956, Nov. 5, 1901, on utilizing effects transmitted through natural media.
     D. The AND logic-gate patents
       U.S. Patent No. 723,188, \"Method of Signaling,\" Mar. 17, 1903.
       U.S. Patent No. 725,605, \"System of Signaling,\" Apr. 14, 1903.
     E. U.S. Patent No. 787,412, \"Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy Through the Natural Mediums,\" Apr. 18, 1905.
     F. \"Inductorium\"
     G. Tesla correspondence with Benjamin Franklin Miessner
Afterword
Index