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Nikola Tesla: Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900

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This is an excellent resource for those who wish to study about Tesla's experiments. The notes are highly detailed, and clearly show his attempts at transmitting electricity without wires by means of his magnifying transmitter. I also find it a very good insight into the inventor's mind.

For those studying Tesla and his methods, the technical notes are very rewarding, although the casual reader might have some difficulty with the text.

Colorado Spings notes is the reprint of Tesla's lab logbook. A must have for people doing research on Tesla and his inventions. Requires a bit of tecnical knowledge on electromagnetism to fully understand it. After reading it, my only two questions are: How can he be so forgotten? Why doesn't he show up in physics books?

I personally find this book as one of my most valuable resources on Nikola Tesla. It is his diary of day to day events and thoughts during 2 years of research in Colorado Springs (1899-1900). As you read and study this book, it becomes absolute clear Nikola Tesla was a genius with the heart and mind of a pure engineer/inventor/scientist. This book is given my highest recommendation for all who dare to study the experiments Tesla was working on during the turn of the century.

This is a marvelous insight into the working methods of Nikola Tesla. His 'autobiography' does not tell much about the man. This reprint of his working journal during the period of his Colarado experiements lets you into his thought processess and methods of working.

His thoughts on Plasmas were way ahead of his time

Tesla's time at Colorado Springs is THE critical period in his life. In his Notebook, we have Tesla in his own words, shifting effortlessly between startlingly original technical suppositions and his characteristic cosmic imaginings. His occasional lapses into reverie, particularly in regards to the fantastic lightning displays in Colorado-both man-made and naturally occurring, hint at the visionary's relationship with electricity on a level far beyond the technical. An inventor by trade, Tesla reveals a passionate fixation with his medium that makes his work personal. In his autobiography, Tesla mentions that as a child he was tortured by continuous lightning-like, prismatic displays whenever he closed his eyes. Later in life, Tesla would raise the shades in his Manhattan office only during lightning storms, at which point he would ask any others to leave, recline on a couch and, according to his trusted secretary, discourse out loud with himself. Perhaps his project was a Proustian one, relishing the real world display of what was once his childhood affliction. In any case, the Colorado Notebooks hint at much and reveal little. Simply, the man was a mystery and he will ever remain so.

The quality of this book from the OUTSIDE looks great. The inside, however, has much to be fixed.

This NEVER should have been released to the public with such errors, and sloppy "fixing" by pasting small pieces of paper saying "this should be on page 41" and the like. Some information is missiong that SHOULD be in the book somewhere. If it is, I cant find it. Not everything is translated, and messy handwritten notes, while interesting, add nothing to the book other than nostalgia because they arent translated.

I'd love to see a book published in a dual-page format that isn't a mess like this one. I'd be willing to pay much more.

I feel I was cheated because of the price of this book.

This was not the development period of his now secret work. For the ten years prior to Pike's peak Tesla lived in NY and while trying to prove Hertz's claims Tesla accidentally discovered 'radiant energy' in a different form. This (after 10 years) led him to learn how to stimulate energy by an 'electro-static event." Later his focus was on understanding how to capture the energy from the electro-static event and then convert it back into normal electricity. It was in Pike's peak (the period this book covers) that he develops new hardware for the already understood event that he wished to reproduce, just on a massive scale. Pike's peak was the preamble to the famous tower and first working prototype of it.

I was actually shocked when I received the book. For once someone has taken Tesla's notes, interpreted them, and put forth a true scientific understanding and explanation of his work complete with appropriate mathematical calculations. The book is hard bound and printed on the highest quality of paper and the photographs are simply superb. It is truly a book for the REAL researcher, scientist, and/or Tesla fan!

Excellent work Tesla Museum! This is a must have tome for any true Tesla-phile. It will be the envy of my collection!

This is a very interesting book. It has a lot of schematics, and notes from Tesla. If you know a bit about electronics this will be a good book for you. Otherwise it might be hard for others to understand. I would say have basic electronics knowledge before getting this.

Nikola Tesla was apparently considered along with Thomas Edison for sharing the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915; both men had such mutual bad feelings that both stated if the other were nominated they would not share the prize, so neither was awarded the Nobel Prize. This book about Colorado Springs Colorado experiments by Nikola Tesla hints at why Tesla was considered for the Nobel Prize. This work is above and beyond Tesla's work on alternating current (AC) power transmission that triumphed over Edison's direct current (DC) power transmission products, cf the competition to transmit hydroelectric generated electricity from Niagara Falls to Buffalo NY in the mid 1890s. The note books is unique, the exposition by and large clear, enough information is given for others to independently duplicate experiments and measurements.