The Illustrated Tesla

Explore Nikola Tesla's revolutionary ideas exactly as he presented them-with the diagrams, apparatus drawings, and technical figures essential to understanding his work. This comprehensive illustrated collection brings together twenty of Tesla's most important essays, lectures, letters, and scientific papers, accompanied by approximately 214 original figures.

The volume includes A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination; Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency; On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, with Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; Famous Scientific Illusions; and Electrical Oscillators, together with numerous additional writings.

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, The Illustrated Tesla allows readers to encounter his experiments and theories as they were intended to be studied.