Nikola Tesla

Biographies

• John J. O'Neill, Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (1944)
  
  A great romantic tale, inspiring, by a friend of Tesla. Complete text.
  
  
• Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius (1996)
  
  A serious work of scholarship, using the traditional methods of the professional historian. Seifer has a terrific webpage.
  
  
• Nikola Tesla, My Autobiography (1919)
  
  Written by Tesla for Hugo Gernsback's "Electrical Experimenter" magazine. Complete text.
  
  

Photographs of his work

• Tesla at Colorado Springs lab, 1899
  
• A 1/3-scale working model of Tesla's largest coil
  
• Tesla's unfinished "World Communications Center" on Long Island, N.Y., (1904)
  
• Small Tesla coils of the type I built at age 14
  

There are many "Tesla" pages (some of the few that can be taken seriously follow)

• Tesla Biography - by Sumaria
  
• Bogdan Kosanovic's Tesla Page
  
• The Tesla Museum, Belgrade
  
• The International Tesla Society
  
• Nikola Tesla Links (Bill Beaty)
  
• Tesla: The Electric Magician
  
• Tesla Books (Brough's Books/Amazon) (all Tesla books in print -- purchase online)
  
• Tesla Books (Robert Lockridge/Amazon) (book list with critical evaluations -- purchase online)
  

Dampers to the "reality-distortion field" that Tesla and his enthusiasts often induce

• Robert Kleinman's review of a Tesla book
  
• Review of another Tesla book
  

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