Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency [Paperback]

Nikola Tesla (Author)

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Publication Date: September 11, 2002

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) (September 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589639936
• ISBN-13: 978-1589639935
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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99 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tesla experiments described in Tesla's own words, August 2, 2003

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This review is from: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (Paperback)

Here is an AUTHENTIC source of Tesla's work. It is a reprint of the original edition. "Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" which is a lecture Tesla presented at the Institution Of Electrical Engineers, London. Included with this lecture is an appendix on the "Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires" by Nikola Tesla. If you want to understand how Tesla thought & worked; this book will allow you to gain real insight into his mind. The future he envisioned can largely be seen in our everyday lives. But this was over a hundred years ago!

Nikola Tesla is a craftsman with an intimate relationship of his work and materials. He innately grasps the nature of electricity. Dubbed the "Electric Magician" by the public, he amazed even engineers & scientists of his day. Henry Ford & Thomas Edison did their best to see that Tesla was forgotten. Neither the Ford Foundation nor the Smithsonian can silence history. Ford & Edison were great entrepreneurs. Tesla was a true genius and humanitarian! This book stands as a testament to his brilliance.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wires, Vacuum Jars and Other Contraptions, December 4, 2010

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This review is from: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (Kindle Edition)

Nikola Tesla was one of the most fascinating and gifted scientists and inventors from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. He had made numerous contributions to our understanding of electromagnetic interactions, and there is hardly an electrical appliance that is used today that is not based in one way or another on one of his inventions. To many people's dismay he had never been awarded the Nobel Prize, but his reputation has only increased over the years and today it eclipses many others scientists that had been deemed extraordinary in their time. As a recognition of the value of his achievements the modern physical unit for the magnetic field is called Tesla. He was also a very mysterious and colorful character, and in recent years several movies and novels featured a fictionalized portrayal of his life.

This short book is a transcript of a lecture that Tesla gave to the London society of electrical engineers on a topic of experiments with alternate currents of high potential and high frequency. The lecture is preceded with a short biographical sketch of Tesla, and it's an interesting read in its own right. It should give an incentive to the reader to read a full biography of Tesla's life. The lecture itself is delivered in very crisp and readable English, and it doesn't require any mathematical background. However, the lecture will probably be of interest primarily to people with a background in engineering or a physical science, as it deals with things like coils, high currents, vacuum tubes and other such marvelous contraption that are unfortunately bound to put most people to sleep. It also doesn't help that this edition of the lecture omits all of the illustrations, and thus makes it very hard to follow even if you are an expert in electrical circuitry and experiments. I would give this book four stars because of the clarity of presentation and the value it has for the history of science, but otherwise it is not the most interesting book out there.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars tesla is awesome incomprehensible visionary, December 24, 2010

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The main thing I got out of this book is that Tesla is probably smarter than Einstein. Like a lot smarter. Like Tesla:Einstein::Einstein:me. Not being a genius myself may disqualify me from evaluating these people but I feel like he's on another level from the ordinary, run of the mill geniuses. Reading his writing is really different from reading Einstein or Feynman- it seems like their concerns are very local compared to Tesla's.

Tesla impressed me with his consideration of "the problem of increasing human energy." He is genuinely and deeply concerned with increasing the energy of the human race and describes how all of his research fits into modifying various parts of this equation. For example he talks about increasing human mass (such as by ending world hunger) and describes various inventions of his that would do this. This guy had worked out a whole scheme of large scale improvements that would change the world in every way. His vision was astounding and at least 1 century ahead of its time. Apparently all of his work is coming from this perspective of advancing our race and he views himself as intimately connected with all humans, implying that he felt no need to propagate his own genes as long as the human race continued to grow because he viewed our united success as more satisfying than that of his own genes. This perspective is so different from my own that I can barely grasp this idea and it's one of the few things that I've read that made me really feel the gap between my mind and another's. I view the advancement of humanity as correlated to the advancement of my genes but not preferable to or a replacement for my own kids being awesome. I feel really lucky that someone as smart as Tesla feels benevolently towards humanity because we are all still benefiting from his consideration.

I did not learn any science from reading this document. I asked my physicist friends about some of the wilder things that he wrote and they did not understand it. It may be that this version doesn't have the proper diagrams. In any case I wouldn't recommend reading this particular document if you want to learn science. Its main value is sort of a qualitative view of Tesla's mind and vision.