Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

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The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
by Thomas Commerford Martin

Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla è un libro assemblato e curato da Thomas Commerford Martin, ingegnere elettrico ed editore statunitense associato di Thomas A. Edison. Il libro descrive in dettaglio l’opera di Nikola Tesla fino al 1893 e costituisce una raccolta completa dei suoi primi lavori, con illustrazioni originali ed estratti dai suoi scritti. Il libro contiene 43 capitoli, la maggior parte dei quali su diverse aree della ricerca e delle invenzioni di Tesla. Il primo capitolo è una breve biografia, mentre tre capitoli sono trascrizioni di importanti conferenze e uno copre la sua sezione della mostra di Westinghouse alla Chicago World Fair.

Il libro è di dominio pubblico ed è quindi disponibile gratuitamente, in diversi formati, anche sul sito del progetto Gutenberg. Personalmente, io possiedo la splendida edizione che vedete nell’immagine.

Indice

• PART I. POLYPHASE CURRENTS.
  • CHAPTER I. Biographical and Introductory.
  • CHAPTER II. A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers.
  • CHAPTER III. The Tesla Rotating Magnetic Field.—Motors with Closed Conductors.—Synchronizing Motors.—Rotating Field Transformers.
  • CHAPTER IV. Modifications and Expansions of the Tesla Polyphase Systems.
  • CHAPTER V. Utilizing Familiar Types of Generators of the Continuous Current Type.
  • CHAPTER VI. Method of Obtaining Desired Speed of Motor Or Generator.
  • CHAPTER VII. Regulator for Rotary Current Motors.
  • CHAPTER VIII. Single Circuit, Self-starting Synchronizing Motors.
  • CHAPTER IX. Change from Double Current to Single Current Motors.
  • CHAPTER X. Motor with “Current Lag” Artificially Secured.
  • CHAPTER XI. Another Method of Transformation from a Torque to a Synchronizing Motor.
  • CHAPTER XII. “Magnetic Lag” Motor.
  • CHAPTER XIII. Method of Obtaining Difference of Phase by Magnetic Shielding.
  • CHAPTER XIV. Type of Tesla Single-Phase Motor.
  • CHAPTER XV. Motors With Circuits of Different Resistance.
  • CHAPTER XVI. Motor with Equal Magnetic Energies in Field and Armature.
  • CHAPTER XVII. Motors with Coinciding Maxima of Magnetic Effect in Armature and Field.
  • CHAPTER XVIII. Motor Based on the Difference of Phase in the Magnetization of the Inner and Outer Parts of an Iron Core.
  • CHAPTER XIX. Another Type of Tesla Induction Motor.
  • CHAPTER XX. Combinations of Synchronizing Motor and Torque Motor.
  • CHAPTER XXI. Motor with a Condenser in the Armature Circuit.
  • CHAPTER XXII. Motor with Condenser in One of the Field Circuits.
  • CHAPTER XXIII. Tesla Polyphase Transformer.
  • CHAPTER XXIV. A Constant Current Transformer with Magnetic Shield Between Coils of Primary and Secondary.
• PART II. THE TESLA EFFECTS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY AND HIGH POTENTIAL CURRENTS.
  • CHAPTER XXV. Introductory.—The Scope of The Tesla Lectures.
  • CHAPTER XXVI. The New York Lecture. Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency, and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination, May 20, 1891.
  • CHAPTER XXVII. The London Lecture. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, February 3, 1892.
  • CHAPTER XXVIII. The Philadelphia and St. Louis Lecture. On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena, February and March, 1893.
  • CHAPTER XXIX. Tesla Alternating Current Generators for High Frequency.
  • CHAPTER XXX. Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus.
  • CHAPTER XXXI. “Massage” with Currents of High Frequency.
  • CHAPTER XXXII. Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes.
• PART III. MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS AND WRITINGS.
  • CHAPTER XXXIII. Method of Obtaining Direct from Alternating Currents.
  • CHAPTER XXXIV. Condensers with Plates in Oil.
  • CHAPTER XXXV. Electrolytic Registering Meter.
  • CHAPTER XXXVI. Thermo-Magnetic Motors and Pyro-Magnetic Generators.
  • CHAPTER XXXVII. Anti-sparking Dynamo Brush and Commutator.
  • CHAPTER XXXVIII. Auxiliary Brush Regulation of Direct Current Dynamos.
  • CHAPTER XXXIX. Improvement in Dynamo and Motor Construction.
  • CHAPTER XL. Tesla Direct Current Arc Lighting System.
  • CHAPTER XLI. Improvement in Unipolar Generators.
• PART IV. APPENDIX: EARLY PHASE MOTORS AND THE TESLA OSCILLATORS.
  • CHAPTER XLII. Mr. Tesla’s Personal Exhibit at the World’s Fair.
  • CHAPTER XLIII. The Tesla Mechanical and Electrical Oscillators.