AUTHOR: NIKOLA TESLA

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

DATE: 1886-1943

PAGE #: 354 TOTAL

REPRODUCTION DIMENSIONS: 11.25 X 8.75 IN

VOLUME ONE IS THE UNITED STATES PATENTS OF NIKOLA TESLA FROM 1888 TO 1927. THE BOOK INCLUDES DIAGRAMS, DESCRIPTIONS, AND SOME DRAWINGS OF TESLA’S ORIGINAL PATENTS.

VOLUME TWO IS THE DECLASSIFIED FBI FILES RANGING FROM THE 1920’S TO WELL AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1943. THE FBI, ESPECIALLY J. EDGAR HOOVER, HAD A KEEN INTEREST IN TESLA’S INVENTIONS. THE SPECULATION IS THE GOVERNMENT CONFISCATION MOST OF THE TESLA PAPERS AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1943 AND USED THEM SO THE GOVERNMENT COULD WEAPONIZE THE INVENTIONS FOR USE IN THE MILITARY.

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HISTORY/DESCRIPTION: NIKOLA TESLA WAS BORN IN SERBIA IN 1856. HE WAS AN INVENTOR, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, MECHANICAL ENGINEER, AND FUTURIST BEST KNOWN FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DESIGN OF THE MODERN ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRICITY SUPPLY SYSTEM. BORN AND RAISED IN AUSTRIAN EMPIRE, TESLA STUDIED ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS IN THE 1870’S WITHOUT RECEIVING A DEGREE, GAINING PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE 1880’S WORKING IN TELEPHONY AND AT CONTINENTAL EDISON IN THE NEW ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY. IN 1884 HE EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE HE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN. HE WORKED FOR A SHORT TIME AT THE EDISON MACHINE WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY BEFORE HE STRUCK OUT ON HIS OWN. WITH THE HELP OF PARTNERS TO FINANCE AND MARKET HIS IDEAS, TESLA SET UP LABORATORIES AND COMPANIES IN NEW YORK TO DEVELOP A RANGE OF ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL DEVICES.

ATTEMPTING TO DEVELOP INVENTIONS HE COULD PATENT AND MARKET, TESLA CONDUCTED A RANGE OF EXPERIMENTS WITH MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS/GENERATORS, ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE TUBES, EARLY X-RAY IMAGINING AND SO MUCH MORE. TESLA BECAME WELL KNOWN AS A N INVENTOR AND DEMONSTRATED HIS ACHIEVEMENTS TO CELEBRITIES AND WEALTHY PATRONS AT HIS LAB, AND WAS NOTED FOR HIS SHOWMANSHIP AT PUBLIC LECTURES.

THROUGHOUT THE 1890’S, TESLA PURSUED HIS IDEAS FOR WIRELESS LIGHTING AND WORLDWIDE ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION IN HIS HIGH-VOLTAGE HIGH-FREQUENCY POWER EXPERIMENTS IN NEW YORK AND COLORADO SPRINGS. IN 1893, HE MADE PRONOUNCEMENTS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH HIS DEVICES. TESLA TRIED TO PUT THESE IDEAS TO PRACTICAL USE BUT RAN OUT OF FUNDING. AFTER CONTINUING WITH A SERIES OF INVENTIONS AND LEAVING BEHIND A SERIES OF UNPAID BILLS AT NUMEROUS HOTELS TESLA DIED IN HIS HOTEL IN 1943. SEVERAL DAY AFTER HIS DEATH IT IS SAID THAT THE FBI ORDERED THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN TO SEIZE TESLA’S BELONGS.

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