• Complain

Thomas Commerford Martin - The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Here you can read online Thomas Commerford Martin - The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2 Apr 2019, publisher: Canterbury Classics, genre: History. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Thomas Commerford Martin The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
  • Book:
    The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Canterbury Classics
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2 Apr 2019
  • Rating:
    5 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 100
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

The early works of famed inventor Nikola Tesla, and a source of inspiration for generations of innovators.At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla was considered the bible of electrical engineering and inspired generations of inventors. This volume, edited by Teslas contemporary, Thomas Commerford Martin, includes extensive discussion of Teslas early work and inventions and contains more than 300 illustrations that demonstrate the practical application of his ideas. Tesla, who was born in what is now Croatia, is best known for his research into the use of high-frequency alternating currents and wireless transmission. Many of his ideas have found practical application in the modern world, and he continues to be a source of inspiration and fascination to this day.

Thomas Commerford Martin: author's other books


Who wrote The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

The Inve - photo 1

The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla - photo 2

The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla The I - photo 3

The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla The Inventions - photo 4

The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla The Inventions - photo 5

The Inventions, Researches, and
Writings of Nikola Tesla

The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla Thomas C ommerfor d - photo 6

The Inventions,
Researches,
and Writings
of Nikola Tesla

Thomas C ommerfor d Martin

2019 Canterbury Classics All rights reserved No part of this publication may - photo 7

2019 Canterbury Classics

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying,
recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written
permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in
critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Canterbury Classics

An imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group

10350 Barnes Canyon Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121

www.canterburyclassicsbooks.com

Printers Row Publishing Group is a division of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC.

The Canterbury Classics and Word Cloud Classics names and logos are
registered trademarks of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC.

All correspondence concerning the content of this book should be addressed to
Canterbury Classics, Editorial Department, at the above address.

Publisher: Peter Norton

Associate Publisher: Ana Parker

Publishing/Editorial Team: April Farr, Kelly Larsen, Kathryn C. Dalby

Editorial Team: JoAnn Padgett, Melinda Allman, Dan Mansfield, Traci Douglas

Production Team: Jonathan Lopes, Rusty von Dyl

Cover and endpaper design: Rusty von Dyl

eBook ISBN: 978-1-68412-776-4

eBook Edition: April 2019

Contents

PART I:
POLYPHASE CURRENTS

PART II:
THE TESLA EFFECTS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY
AND HIGH POTENTIAL CURRENTS

PART III:
MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS AND WRITINGS

PART IV:
APPENDIX: EARLY PHASE MOTORS
AND THE TESLA OSCILLATORS

T he electrical problems of the present day lie largely in the economical transmission of power and in the radical improvement of the means and methods of illumination. To many workers and thinkers in the domain of electrical invention, the apparatus and devices that are familiar, appear cumbrous and wasteful, and subject to severe limitations. They believe that the principles of current generation must be changed, the area of current supply be enlarged, and the appliances used by the consumer be at once cheapened and simplified. The brilliant successes of the past justify them in every expectancy of still more generous fruition.

The present volume is a simple record of the pioneer work done in such departments up to date, by Mr. Nikola Tesla, in whom the world has already recognized one of the foremost of modern electrical investigators and inventors. No attempt whatever has been made here to emphasize the importance of his researches and discoveries. Great ideas and real inventions win their own way, determining their own place by intrinsic merit. But with the conviction that Mr. Tesla is blazing a path that electrical development must follow for many years to come, the compiler has endeavored to bring together all that bears the impress of Mr. Teslas genius, and is worthy of preservation. Aside from its value as showing the scope of his inventions, this volume may be of service as indicating the range of his thought. There is intellectual profit in studying the push and play of a vigorous and original mind.

Although the lively interest of the public in Mr. Teslas work is perhaps of recent growth, this volume covers the results of full ten years. It includes his lectures, miscellaneous articles and discussions, and makes note of all his inventions thus far known, particularly those bearing on polyphase motors and the effects obtained with currents of high potential and high frequency. It will be seen that Mr. Tesla has ever pressed forward, barely pausing for an instant to work out in detail the utilizations that have at once been obvious to him of the new principles he has elucidated. Wherever possible his own language has been employed.

It may be added that this volume is issued with Mr. Teslas sanction and approval, and that permission has been obtained for the re-publication in it of such papers as have been read before various technical societies of this country and Europe. Mr. Tesla has kindly favored the author by looking over the proof sheets of the sections embodying his latest researches. The work has also enjoyed the careful revision of the authors friend and editorial associate, Mr. Joseph Wetzler, through whose hands all the proofs have passed.

December 1893

A s an introduction to the record contained in this volume of Mr. Teslas investigations and discoveries, a few words of a biographical nature will, it is deemed, not be out of place, nor other than welcome.

Nikola Tesla was born in 1857 at Smiljan, Lika, a borderland region of Austro-Hungary, of the Serbian race, which has maintained against Turkey and all comers so unceasing a struggle for freedom. His family is an old and representative one among these Switzers of Eastern Europe, and his father was an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church. An uncle is today Metropolitan in Bosnia. His mother was a woman of inherited ingenuity, and delighted not only in skillful work of the ordinary household character, but in the construction of such mechanical appliances as looms and churns and other machinery required in a rural community. Nikola was educated at Gospich in the public school for four years, and then spent three years in the Real Schule. He was then sent to Carstatt, Croatia, where he continued his studies for three years in the Higher Real Schule. There for the first time he saw a steam locomotive. He graduated in 1873, and, surviving an attack of cholera, devoted himself to experimentation, especially in electricity and magnetism. His father would have had him maintain the family tradition by entering the Church, but native genius was too strong, and he was allowed to enter the Polytechnic School at Gratz, to finish his studies, and with the object of becoming a professor of mathematics and physics. One of the machines there experimented with was a Gramme dynamo, used as a motor. Despite his instructors perfect demonstration of the fact that it was impossible to operate a dynamo without commutator or brushes, Mr. Tesla could not be convinced that such accessories were necessary or desirable. He had already seen with quick intuition that a way could be found to dispense with them; and from that time he may be said to have begun work on the ideas that fructified ultimately in his rotating field motors.

In the second year of his Gratz course, Mr. Tesla gave up the notion of becoming a teacher, and took up the engineering curriculum. His studies ended, he returned home in time to see his father die, and then went to Prague and Buda-Pesth to study languages, with the object of qualifying himself broadly for the practice of the engineering profession. For a short time he served as an assistant in the Government Telegraph Engineering Department, and then became associated with M. Puskas, a personal and family friend, and other exploiters of the telephone in Hungary. He made a number of telephonic inventions, but found his opportunities of benefiting by them limited in various ways. To gain a wider field of action, he pushed on to Paris and there secured employment as an electrical engineer with one of the large companies in the new industry of electric lighting.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla»

Look at similar books to The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla»

Discussion, reviews of the book The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.