PRODIGAL
GENIUS, The Life of Nikola
Tesla, John J. O'Neill (written by the man to
whom Tesla once remarked, "You understand me better than
any man alive.")"His brilliant, eccentric personality gives to Tesla's life story the quality of a strange romance. He made his first million before he was forty, yet gave up the royalties on his most profitable invention as a gesture of friendship, and died in near poverty. Handsome, magnetic and elegant, he was the "catch" of New York society, yet no woman could win him from his dedication to science. He refused to accept the Nobel Prize; and when others claimed credit for the revolutionary ideas his extraordinary mind threw off like showers of sparks, he did not contest them."
PRODIGAL
GENIUS, The Life of Nikola
Tesla, John J. O'Neill (written by the man to
whom Tesla once remarked, "You understand me better than
any man alive.")Acclaimed biography of the "Father of Electricity" who literally lit the lamps of the world. Tesla was a natural inventor since childhood. However, it was his invention of alternating current, revealed to him in a vision in Budapest when he was twenty-five, that changed the face of the world. Tesla worked without schematics, perfecting his inventions mentally before building them. He led his eccentric life with the aim of keeping his mind clear, to be able to produce such inventions as the world had never seen. His influence is incalculable, and his light stretches far into the future. 326pp., with Index. 5.5 X 8.5, 0-914732-33-1
Out-of-Print. Limited quantities available. $35.00
Tesla's Remote Controlled Boat was first demonstrated
in 1899 (!)
special order items...
special order items no longer available, sorry.In Four Parts: Polyphase Currents; the Tesla Effects with High
Frequency and High Potential Currents; Miscellaneous Inventions
& Writings; Early Phase Motors and Tesla Oscillators;
Includes ten years of Tesla's lectures, miscellaneous articles,
discussions and inventions. "The compiler has endeavored
to bring together all that bears the impress of Mr. Tesla's genius,
and is worthy of preservation. Aside from showing the scope of
his inventions, this volume may be of service as indicating the
range of his thought." 496pp., hardback, thoroughly illustrated,
index, 6 X 9, 0-913022-23-2 $18.50
From a lecture delivered before The Institute of Electrical Engineers in London. Tesla in his own words describes his experiments. First published in 1904, 35 diagrams. Appendix and photos of his Experimental Lab, Colorado Springs. 162pp., hardback, 5.5 X 8.5, 0-913022-25-X $12.95
Chronologically listed, the 112 patents issued to Tesla in the United States and their submittal diagrams. From his first patent in March 30, 1885 for an Electric-Arc Lamp, through October 4, 1927 for an Apparatus for Aerial Transportation, the range of this superman is astonishing. It is no wonder that upon his death, agents of the Federal government confiscated all his working papers and to this day they have not been released. Very interesting reading in that with each patent application he explains the reasons for each invention and how they differ from the technology preceeding them. 500pp., large hardback, 9 X 11, 0-960356-8-2 $40.00
His research diary. It reveals his mind during an important period of research and shows the enthusiasm and fervor he put into his projects. Moving to Colorado Springs to work with millions of volts of tremendous potentials, he found the earth could be set into electrical oscillation. From his laboratory he sent out a stream of electrons. The moving waves expanded in all directions, passed over the bulge of the earth and converged on the diametrically opposite point of the earth. Here a tremendous south pole was built up, marked by a wave of great amplitude that rose and fell in unision with Tesla's north pole. As the reasonance built, and the earth was set into electrical oscillation, a source of free energy was available at all spots on the globe with the use of a simple tuning apparatus. 439pp., large hardback, 9 x 11, 0-913022-26-8 $44.00