Buy this book on-line Martin, Thomas Commerford / Tesla : Tesla's Oscillator And Other Inventions: An Authoritative Account Of Some Of His Recent Electrical WorkThe Century Company, NY, 1895
8vo. 18pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 14 photographs and a diagram of the working parts of an early form of Tesla oscillator, first page-only was damaged, and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XLIX, No. 6, April, 1895. The author's follow-up after the release of his full-length title -- now scarce, and very expensive -- INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS WORK IN POLYPHASE CURRENTS AND HIGH POTENTIAL LIGHTING, published by The Electrical Engineer, NY, 1894. Per the Editors, the photographs reproduced in the present article were taken under special direction of the inventor by Tonnele & Company. Photos include the latest form of Tesla oscillator combining in one mechanism dynamo and steam-engine, the first photograph ever taken by phosphorescent light, January, 1894, a phosphograph of Mark Twain taken in Tesla's laboratory, three phosphorescent bulbs under test for Actinic value photographed by their own light, Tesla tubes of different forms in which light is obtained without filament or combustion and photographed by their own light, an experiment showing the play of electric sparks between condenser plates, an experiment showing the lighting up of an ordinary incandescent lamp at a distance through the influence of electrified ether waves, an experiment illustrating the lighting of an incandescent lamp in free space by induction from coil below, a similar experiment illustrating the phenomenon of impedance, an experiment illustrating a high-tension current being passed through the body before it lights the lamps, the effect of electrical discharge from the earth by Tesla coil, and a Tesla coil for ascertaining and discharging the electricity of the earth. At the end of the article is a poem, In Tesla's Laboratory, by Robert Underwood Johnson. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce.. Book. Book Condition: VG. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Martin, Thomas Commerford / Tesla : Tesla's Oscillator And Other Inventions: An Authoritative Account Of Some Of His Recent Electrical Work. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, out-of-print books, livres d'occasion, incunabula and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |