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> Updated 2-08-95I have (with the assistance of others) put together a list of areferences for those who are interested in Tesla and his work.> Tesla Book Company, PO BOX 121873, CHULA VISTA, CA 91912This catalog is pretty good: Tesla Coil handbooks, Tesla Coildesign manuals, coil plans, Tesla's Diary, Tesla's Lectures,Colorado Springs Notes, and many other titles. The catalog has a1-800-398-2056 information/order line.> Twenty First Century Books, Box 2001, Breckenridge, CO. 80424.Twenty First Century Books also has a very complete Tesla bookcatalog, with several new titles (first edition of Tesla's "NewYork Lecture, April 6 1897" to name one). Tel: 303-453-9293> Lindsay Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 12, Bradley, IL. 60915> Voice - 815-935-5353 ; Fax - 815-935-5477Lindsay also offers a good selection of Tesla literature, classicelectronics publications, reprints, and T-Coil Design software.Ask for their new Technical Catalog available this week.> High Voltage Press, 4326 S.E. Woodstock, #489, Portland> OR 97206 USA Tel: 503-775-3209Publishes and sells the three booklets by George Trinkaus> THE INTERNATIONAL TESLA SOCIETY, INC, (ITS) P.O. Box 5636,> Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80931, USAThe ITS has a book shop that mail orders:> High Energy Enterprises, P.O. Box 5636, Colorado Springs, CO.> 80931, USA Tel: 719-475-0918, Fax: 719-475-0582This source has many good Tesla publications and literature/instructions on high voltage devices; historical and modern.I would vote this the most improved catalog of Tesla literaturein 1994. Get the "1995 Resource Guide" which is the best and mostcomprehensive Tesla catalog I have seen to date: oscillatorhandbooks, HV capacitor construction guides, Tesla Coil con-struction guides/manuals/software, Tesla's Colorado SpringsNotes, Radio Tesla, Tesla's Diary Comparisons, and many, manymore Tesla titles. A must have catalog for any Tesla buff.To get a complete listing of the books, pamphlets, and softwareI have reviewed below, you will need to contact all of the booksources above. There will be some duplication of titles, but aunique gem or two will be found from each source. These booksources also cater to fringe "science" people. I tend to stayaway from titles with words/phrases: free-energy-scalar-wave-zero-point-gravitobiology-time-travel, etc.. I include thismaterial in the fringe or "crackpot" scientist catagory.Of course, what you do is your business, but: CAVEAT EMPTOR!> The TESLA COIL BUILDERS ASSOCIATION, (TCBA) Harry Goldman, 3> AMY LANE, QUEENSBURY, NEW YORK, 12804, USA.Publishes a quarterly newsletter NEWS, with parts mart, Q&A,reader project, historical project, topical reprints (such as thetwo Popular Science projects recently mentioned here), etc.. Back
 
issues and index are available, tell Harry I sent you!> Information Unlimited, P.O. Box 716, Amherst, NH., 03031, USATesla Coils, rail guns, lasers, tasers, plasma cutters, Jacob'sladders, stun guns, plasma globes, HV power supplies,...Completed units, kits, parts, or just plans. Nice catalog.Tel: 603-673-4730, Fax: 603-672-5406, Order: 800-221-1705> The U.S. Patent Office, Washington, DC.Copies of Tesla's patents are available for $1.50 each. You mustspecify patent numbers.> Tesla Information, 18321 Edgewood Ave., Villa Park, CA. 92667They carried Tesla coil design instructions, manuals, andsupplimentary papers and manuscripts.> Vangard Sciences, P.O. BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX, 75150BBS: 214-324-3501; Has Tesla software, Tesla papers and Teslainfo; public domain information accepted and available.> Barnes & Nobel Booksellers, 126 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011Tel: 1-800-242-6657. I list them because they have really beenincreasing their number of Tesla titles. In addition to a coupleof books reviewed below, they also have a video tape: NIKOLATESLA: THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD, that takes the viewer insidethe Tesla museum in Belgrad, Yugoslavia where some of Tesla'shandmade exhibition equipment was still operational, and hisoriginal demonstrations are reproduced.> Tesla Memorial Society, 453 Martin Rd. Lackawanna, NY, 14218Produced the video mentioned above.> chip@grendel.objinc.comInternet mailing list for Tesla info, files (public domain), or,write to: Chip Atkinson, 7675 Matai Court, Niwot, CO. 80503Tel: 303-652-3616... Books to look out for:> THE COLORADO SPRINGS NOTES, 1899-1900By Nikola Tesla... Hardcover, 440pp, Published by NOLIT, Beograd,Yugoslavia, 1978. At the time of his death, Tesla was actually aYugoslavian dependant. Recognized as a national hero, the govern-ment of Yugoslavia had set up a small trust fund to insure Teslahad rent and food. When he died in 1943, his personal effectswere examined, plundered a bit, then forwarded to his next ofkin, Yugoslavia, who built a museum in Belgrad (spel Belgrade &Beograd) to house them. In the mid 1970s the Tesla Museumorganized Tesla's notes from the 1899-1900 experiments atColorado Springs, CO., and sent them to the museum publisherNOLIT. This edition ran in 1978. Prefaced and annotated byDr. Aleksandar Marincic, Assoc. Prof. of EE Beograd Univ. andadvisor to the Nikola Tesla Museum, Yugoslavia; it transcribesTesla's original english manuscript w/schematics, and B&W photos.> NICKOLA TESLA ON HIS WORK WITH ALTERNATING CURRENTS> AND THEIR APPLICATION TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, TELEPHONY,> AND TRANSMISSION OF POWER
 
This is a fine product of a modern legal research, edited byLeland I. Anderson, published in 1992 by Sun Publishing, Div. ofBoyle & Anderson, Denver, CO., 80219. Library of Congress Catalog#92-60482, ISBN 0-9632652-0-2, paper 237pp; this book is thetranscript of Tesla's pre-hearing interview conducted by hislegal counsel in 1916. The interview was precipitated by a numberof pending court cases in the fledgling radio industry. One ofthe attorneys conducting the interview held an EE degree. Photos,patent covers, schematics, mechanical drawings, etc. weresubmitted by Tesla as the stenographer recorded his answers andexplanations. None of this material was intended for print, andthere is no question as to accuracy or authenticity. Histestimony and depositions led to a US Supreme Court decision inhis favor 1943. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!> NIKOLA TESLA: LECTURE BEFORE THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES> - APRIL 6, 1897Nikola Tesla, 1897, (edited and prefaced by Leland I. Anderson)published by Twenty First Century Books, 1994, Library ofCongress Card No.: 94-61004, ISBN 0-9636012-1-0 (hard cover) ISBN0-9636012-7-X (soft cover), 123pp, $12.95 cover price. This is areal gem. Tesla was the third speaker of the evening April 6.The hour grew late and the presentation was cut short. LelandAnderson has retrieved the entire lecture as it was originallywritten by Tesla, and has included the sections that Tesla haddetermined not to present due to conflicts with pending patentapplications. The lecture covers coil construction (complete withtechniques, drawings, and photos), radio schematics, the ANDlogic gate schematic (incredible), radio and X-Ray tube con-struction and experiments. This is another overwhelming proofthat Tesla was at least a half a century ahead of his time. Oneresonator schematic used for production of X-Rays was heraldedas a great improvement when it was re-invented 38 years later byD. Sloan. This is no interpretation, this is the original work.Highly Recommended> EXPERIMENTS WITH ALTERNATE CURRENTS OF HIGH POTENTIAL AND> HIGH FREQUENCY: A Lecture delivered before the Institution> of Electrical Engineers, Londonby Nikola Tesla, with an appendix by the same author:> TRANSMISSION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY WITHOUT WIRES1904, Mcgraw Publishing Co., New York, reprinted 1986, AngriffPress, P.O.BOX 2726, Hollywood CA 90078, 162pp, ISBN 913022-25-XThe title is a pretty apt description. The lecture (presented in1895) covers his RF work and lighting systems with details ofsingle terminal bulb design, circuits, and some coil design andconstruction. Tesla also expands on his ideas for wireless powertransmission that were presented in a lecture in St. Louis in1893. The appendix is quite interesting, and consists of areprint of an article that was solicted by "Electrical World andEngineer" magazine for their 30th aniversary issue, March 5,1904. At the time the appendix article was written, Tesla'sWardenclyff project was beginning to show signs of stalling: costoverruns, construction delays, and problems with financing. Theproject of course never saw commercial completion, though Tesladid fire it for experimental purposes.> THE INVENTIONS RESEARCHES & WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA
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