Tesla wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals. Among his books are My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, compiled and edited by David Hatcher Childress; and The Tesla Papers.
Many of Tesla's writings are freely available on the web, including the article, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, which he wrote for The Century Magazine in 1900, and the article, Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency, published in his book, Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla.
Works
- A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers, AIEE Address, May 16, 1888
- Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, Electrical World, Feb. 21, 1891
- Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination, AIEE, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891
- Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, IEE Address, London, February 1892
- On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 1893, and National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, March 1893
- On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator, Electrical Engineer, Dec. 21, 1892
- On Electricity, Electrical Review, January 27, 1897
- High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-therapeutic and Other Purposes, Electrical Engineer, November 17, 1898
- Plans to Dispense With Artillery of the Present Type, The Sun, New York, November 21, 1898
- Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work, Electrical Review - New York, November 30, 1898
- On Current Interrupters, Electrical Review, March 15, 1899
- The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900
- Tesla's New Discovery, The Sun, New York, January 30, 1901
- Talking With Planets, Collier's Weekly, February 9, 1901
- The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires, Electrical World, March 5, 1904
- Electric Autos, Manufacturers' Record, December 29, 1904
- The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace, Electrical World and Engineer, January 7, 1905
- Tuned Lightning, English Mechanic and World of Science, March 8, 1907
- Tesla's Wireless Torpedo, New York Times, March 19, 1907
- Possibilities of Wireless, New York Times, Oct. 22, 1907
- The Future of the Wireless Art, Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, Van Nostrand, 1908
- Mr. Tesla's Vision, New York Times, April 21, 1908
- Nikola Tesla's New Wireless, The Electrical Engineer - London, December 24, 1909
- Dr. Tesla Talks of Gas Turbines, Motor World, September 18,1911
- Tesla's New Monarch of Machines, New York Herald, Oct. 15, 1911
- The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation On the Wireless Transmission of Energy, Electrical Review and Western Electrician, July 6, 1912
- How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies, New York American, February 7, 1915
- Some Personal Recollections, Scientific American, June 5, 1915
- The Wonder World To Be Created By Electricity, Manufacturer's Record, September 9, 1915
- Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision, New York Times, Sunday, October 3, 1915
- Tesla's New Device Like Bolts of Thor, New York Times, December 8, 1915
- Wonders of the Future, Collier's Weekly, December 2, 1916
- Electric Drive for Battle Ships, New York Herald, February 25, 1917
- My Inventions, Electrical Experimenter, February-June and October 1919
- Famous Scientific Illusions, Electrical Experimenter, February 1919
- The True Wireless, Electrical Experimenter, May 1919
- Electrical Oscillators, Electrical Experimenter, July 1919
- World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy, Telegraph and Telegraph Age, October 16, 1927
- Our Future Motive Power, Everyday Science and Mechanics, December 1931
- Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views On Power, New York Herald Tribune, September 11, 1932
- The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe, Origin and Intensity of Cosmic Rays, New York, October 13, 1932
- Tesla on Power Development and Future Marvels, New York World Telegram, July 24, 1934
- The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through Natural Media, 1935
- A Machine to End War, Liberty, February 1935
- Tesla Predicts Ships Powered by Shore Beam, New York Herald Tribune, May 5, 1935
- Mechanical Therapy
Works About Tesla
- The Tesla Effects With High Frequency and High Potential Currents, Introduction.--The Scope of the Tesla Lectures.
- Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions, Century Illustrated Magazine, April 1895
- Earth Electricity to Kill Monopoly, The World Sunday Magazine â€" March 8, 1896
- Inventor Tesla's Plant Nearing Completion, Brooklyn Eagle, February 8, 1902
- Nikola Tesla's New Wireless, The Electrical Engineer - London, December 24, 1909
- Presentation of the Edison Medal to Nikola Tesla, May 8, 1917
- Tesla's Views on Electricity and the War, The Electrical Experimenter, August 1917
- Rain Can Be Controlled and Hydraulic Force Provided . . . , Syracuse Herald, ca. February 29, 1920
- When Woman is Boss, Colliers, January 30, 1926
- Nikola Tesla Tells of New Radio Theories, New York Herald Tribune, September 22, 1929
- Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor May Transmit Power ‘Round Earth, Brooklyn Eagle, July 10, 1932
- Tesla Invents Peace Ray, New York Sun, July 10, 1934
- Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft In War, Every Week Magazine, October 21, 1934
- Tesla Tries to Prevent World War II, Prodigal Genius, 1944 â€" Unpublished Chapter 34
- A Story of Youth Told by Age, Written to Miss Fotitch Kristasia
Poems
In the late 1920s, Tesla composed a poemâ€""Fragments of Olympian Gossip"â€"for his friend, George Sylvester Viereck, an illustrious German poet and mystic. It poked vitriolic fun at the scientific establishment of the day. For example, he derided Albert Einstein for claiming that matter and force are transmutable (Massâ€"energy equivalence), even though Archimedes and Isaac Newton had stated that they are not.
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