Buy this book on-line

Tesla, Nikola : The Problem Of Increasing Human Energy With Special Reference To The Harnessing Of The Sun's Energy, Original Appearance in Century Magazine, Bound Volume

The Century Company, NY, 1900

8vo. Volume LX, May - October, 1900, original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine titles, light general wear, contents very clean and bright, with ink note at top of first page referencing an editorial on Tesla noted later in the volume. Article is 37pp, printed in double columns, and illustrated after the author's electrical experiments with 12 photographs now published for the first time according to the editor. Editorial note is at page 312. Illustrations include burning the nitrogen of the atmosphere, a diagram of the three ways of increasing human energy, the first practical Telautomaton, an experiment to illustrate the supplying of electrical energy through a single wire without return, the experiment to illustrate the transmission of electrical energy through the earth without wire, a photographic view of the coils responding to electrical oscillations, a view of the essential parts of the electrical oscillator used in the experiment, an experiment to illustrate an inductive effect of an electrical oscillator of great power, the experiment to illustrate the capacity of the oscillator for producing electrical explosions, an experiment to illustrate the capacity of the oscillator for creating a great electrical movement, a photographic view of an experiment to illustrate the effect of an electrical oscillator delivering energy at a rate of seventy-five thousand horse-power, and small diagrams of wireless telegraphy mechanically illustrated, and obtaining energy from the ambient medium. Very scarce, only exceeded in scarcity by the single issue.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints.