NIKOLA TESLA was a gifted electrical and mechanical engineer, and was one of the most influential inventors of the last century. Eventually holding over 700 patents, Tesla worked in a number of fields, including electricity, robotics, radar, and the wireless transmission of energy. His discoveries laid the groundwork for many of the twentieth centuryโs greatest technological advances.
ย ย ย This book contains Teslaโs thoughts on humanityโs relationship with the universe, and also his explanation and scientific extrapolation on the technological advancements embodied in his work. This text, first published in Century Illustrated Magazine in June 1900, is yet another example of the genius of Nikola Tesla.ย CONTENTSย Introduction
โข The onward movement of humanityโข The energy of the movementโข The three ways of increasing human energy
1ย โข The first problem: how to increase human massโข The burning of atmospheric nitrogen
2ย โข The second problem: how to reduce the force retarding the human massโข The art of telautomatics
3ย โข The third problem: how to increase the force accelerating the human massโข The harnessing of the Sunโs energy
4ย โข The source of human energyโข The three ways of drawing energy from the Sun
5ย โข Great possibilities offered by iron for increasing human performanceโข Enormous waste in iron manufacture
6ย โข Economical production of iron by a new process
7โข The coming of age of aluminiumโข The doom of the copper industryโข The great civilizing potency of the new metal
8ย โข Efforts toward obtaining more energy from coalโข Electric transmissionโข The gas engineโข The cold-coal battery
9ย โข Energy from the mediumโข The windmill and the solar engineโข Motive power from terrestrial heatโข Electricity from natural sources
10ย โข A departure from known methodsโข The possibility of a โself-actingโ engine or machineโข The ideal way of obtaining motive power
11ย โข First efforts to produce the self-acting engineโข The mechanical oscillatorโข The work of Dewar and Lindeโข Liquid air
12ย โข Discovery of unexpected properties of the atmosphereโข Strange experimentsโข Transmission of electrical energy through one wire without returnโข Transmission through the Earth without any wire
13ย โข Wireless telegraphyโข The secret of tuningโข Errors in the Hertzian investigationsโข A receiver of wonderful sensitivity
14โข Development of a new principleโข The electrical oscillatorโข Production of immense electrical movementsโข The Earth responds to manโข Interplanetary communication now probable
15ย โข Transmission of electrical energy to any distance without wires now possibleโข The best means of increasing the force accelerating the human mass
NIKOLA TESLA was a gifted electrical and mechanical engineer, and was one of the most influential inventors of the last century. Eventually holding over 700 patents, Tesla worked in a number of fields, including electricity, robotics, radar, and the wireless transmission of energy. His discoverie...