The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting
This book is a window into the workshop of a genius. Compiled in 1893, when Tesla's most revolutionary ideas were still fresh from the laboratory, it captures the electrical engineer's pioneering work on alternating current systems and high-voltage lighting at the very moment the world was beginning to understand what he had unleashed. Thomas Commerford Martin, an electrical engineer who knew Tesla personally, assembled this comprehensive collection of technical papers, patent discussions, and explanatory essays with detailed diagrams that show exactly how Tesla envisioned the future of power. The book traces Tesla's journey from his arrival in America through his famous demonstrations of polyphase current, the system that would eventually light the world. For anyone who has wondered exactly how Tesla's inventions worked, rather than just what they accomplished, this book provides the answers in the inventor's own words and drawings. It documents the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the rotating magnetic field, the induction motor, and the AC power transmission system that made possible the entire electrical grid.
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“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise.I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.””
— Thomas Commerford Martin
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