Tesla-Autobiography.pdf

THE STRANGE LIFE OF

NIKOLA TESLA

Editors Note, August 28, 1995

This text has been entered by John R.H. Penner from a small booklet found in a

used bookstore for $2.50. The only form of date identiﬁcation is the name of the

original purchaser, Arthua Daine (?), dated April 29, 1978.

The book appears to be considerably older, made with typewriters, and then

photocopied and stapled. The only other signiﬁcant features of the booklet is that it

contains four photocopied photographs of Tesla, and was originally forty pages

long. I must apologise for the qualitty of the scans, but the originals were of very

poor quality, and this is the best that could be obtained after touching-up in

Photoshop.

The book has no Copyright identification, nor any means of contacting the

publishers. As far as I am aware, this autobiography is no longer available in printed

form anywhere.

In the interest of making this important text available to the wider public, I have

retyped the entire text word-for-word as it originally appears into this electronic

format. The only words which appear in this ﬁle, that are not in the original book

are this Editors Note, and the Introduction. I have exactly maintained page numbers

as they appear in the original – including the somewhat odd artifact of Chapter 1

starting on page two.

If anyone knows how to reach the original publisher, please contact me at the below

address, so proper credit may be given where it is due.

John Roland Hans Penner

464 Scott Street

St. Catharines, Ontario

L2M 3W7, Canada

Phone: 905.646.3551

eMail: J.Penner@GEnie.GEIS.com

This ﬁle may be freely redistributed as long as it’s content is not modiﬁed in any

way. It may not be sold or published for proﬁt unless speciﬁcally authorised prior to

publication by the express permission of Kolmogorov- Smirnov Publishing, or John

Penner.

The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

Introduction

Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July 9, 1856,

and died January 7, 1943. He was the electrical engineer who invented the AC

(alternating current) induction motor, which made the universal transmission and

distribution of electricity possible. Tesla began his studies in physics and

mathematics at Graz Polytechnic, and then took philosophy at the University of

Prague. He worked as an electrical engineer in Budapest, Hungary, and

subsequently in France and Germany. In 1888 his discovery that a magnetic ﬁeld

could be made to rotate if two coils at right angles are supplied with AC current

90° out of phase made possible the invention of the AC induction motor. The major

advantage of this motor being its brushless operation, which many at the time

believed impossible.

Tesla moved to the United States in 1884, where he worked for Thomas Edison

who quickly became a rival – Edison being an advocate of the inferior DC power

transmission system. During this time, Tesla was commissioned with the design of

the AC generators installed at Niagara Falls. George Westinghouse purchased the

patents to his induction motor, and made it the basis of the Westinghouse power

system which still underlies the modern electrical power industry today.

He also did notable research on high-voltage electricity and wireless

communication; at one point creating an earthquake which shook the ground for

several miles around his New York laboratory. He also devised a system which

anticipated world-wide wireless communications, fax machines, radar, radio-guided

missiles and aircraft.

The Strange Life of Nikla Tesla

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NIKOLA TESLA IS THE TRUE UNSUNG

PROPHET OF THE ELECTRIC AGE!;

without whom our radio, auto ignition,

telephone, alternating current power

generation and transmission, radio and

television would all have been impossible.

Yet his life and times have vanished largely

from public access.

This AUTOBIOGRAPHY is released to remedy this

situation, and to ﬁll this “BLACK HOLE”

in information space.

The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

The Strange Life of Nikla Tesla

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