Nikola Tesla

Letters written by Nikola Tesla to his relatives.

In the presence of the existing diversity of opinion regarding the relative merits of the alternate and continuous current systems, great importance is attached to the question whether alternate currents can be successfully utilized in the operation of motors.

Collected here are twenty of Nikola Tesla's essays, letters, and speeches all with figures. In total there are some 214 figures. Now you can read these famous articles as they were intended to be read. Included are 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 References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; Famous Scientific Illusions; Electrical Oscillators; and many many more!

A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 1893, and before the National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, March 1893.

Omoseye Bolaji is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Chancellor’s Medal from the University of the Free State, and was also conferred with a Chieftaincy title by the King of Ibadanland in West Africa. Bolaji is a well known African writer who has published lots of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, biographies, and drama. This is his latest book, containing a selection of his recent, diverse, shorter writings for magazines, journals, anthologies etc. Topics, or/and protagonists covered in this sparkling work include: DH Lawrence Lewis Nkosi The allure of Father Xmas! The National English Literary Museum (Grahamstown) Steve Biko Nigerian, and South African Writers Camara Laye Dambudzo Marechera NMM Duman Gabriel Okara Facebook Ola Rotimi The tormentone Gordon Banks Horrific Murder/Rape Segun Odegbami The Illustrators Teboho Masakala Musical Maestros Sheila Khala Relativity of poverty The Introduction to this illuminating book is written by the well known African critic and poet, Pule Lechesa.

In this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors. In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. He was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties. From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered -- and continue to alter -- the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.