Table of Contents

A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers, AIEE Address, May 16, 1888

Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, Electrical World, Feb. 21, 1891

The Tesla Effects With High Frequency and High Potential Currents, Introduction.--The Scope of the Tesla Lectures.

• Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination, AIEE, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891

• Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, IEE Address, London, February 1892

• On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 1893, and National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, March 1893

On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator, Electrical Engineer, Dec. 21, 1892

Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions, Century Illustrated Magazine, April 1895

Earth Electricity to Kill Monopoly, The World Sunday Magazine, March 8, 1896

On Electricity, Electrical Review, January 27, 1897

High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-therapeutic and Other Purposes, Electrical Engineer, November 17, 1898

Plans to Dispense With Artillery of the Present Type, The Sun, New York, November 21, 1898

Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work, Electrical Review - New York, November 30, 1898

On Current Interrupters, Electrical Review, March 15, 1899

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900

Tesla's New Discovery, The Sun, New York, January 30, 1901

Talking With Planets, Collier's Weekly, February 9, 1901

Inventor Tesla's Plant Nearing Completion, Brooklyn Eagle, February 8, 1902

The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires, Electrical World, March 5, 1904

Cloudborn Electric Wavelets To Encircle the Globe, New York Times, March 27, 1904.

Electric Autos, Manufacturers' Record, December 29, 1904

The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace, Electrical World and Engineer, January 7, 1905

Tuned Lightning, English Mechanic and World of Science, March 8, 1907

Tesla's Wireless Torpedo, New York Times, March 19, 1907

Possibilities of Wireless, New York Times, Oct. 22, 1907

The Future of the Wireless Art, Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, Van Nostrand, 1908

Mr. Tesla's Vision, New York Times, April 21, 1908

Nikola Tesla's New Wireless, The Electrical Engineer - London, December 24, 1909

Dr. Tesla Talks of Gas Turbines, Motor World, September 18,1911

Tesla's New Monarch of Machines, New York Herald, Oct. 15, 1911

The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation On the Wireless Transmission of Energy, Electrical Review and Western Electrician, July 6, 1912

How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies, New York American, February 7, 1915

Some Personal Recollections, Scientific American, June 5, 1915

The Wonder World To Be Created By Electricity, Manufacturer's Record, September 9, 1915

Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision, New York Times, Sunday, October 3, 1915

Tesla's New Device Like Bolts of Thor, New York Times, December 8, 1915

Wonders of the Future, Collier's Weekly, December 2, 1916

Electric Drive for Battle Ships, New York Herald, February 25, 1917

Presentation of the Edison Medal to Nikola Tesla, May 8, 1917

Tesla's Views on Electricity and the War, The Electrical Experimenter, August 1917

My Inventions, Electrical Experimenter, February-June and October 1919

Famous Scientific Illusions, Electrical Experimenter, February 1919

The True Wireless, Electrical Experimenter, May 1919

Electrical Oscillators, Electrical Experimenter, July 1919

Rain Can Be Controlled and Hydraulic Force Provided . . . , Syracuse Herald, ca. February 29, 1920

A Giant Eye to See Around the World, Albany Telegram, February 25, 1923

When Woman is Boss, Colliers, January 30, 1926

World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy, Telegraph and Telegraph Age, October 16, 1927

Nikola Tesla Tells of New Radio Theories, New York Herald Tribune, September 22, 1929

Our Future Motive Power, Everyday Science and Mechanics, December 1931

Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor May Transmit Power 'Round Earth, Brooklyn Eagle, July 10, 1932

Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views On Power, New York Herald Tribune, September 11, 1932

The Eternal Source of Energy of the Universe, Origin and Intensity of Cosmic Rays, New York, October 13, 1932

Tesla 'Harnesses' Cosmic Energy, Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 2, 1933

Tesla Invents Peace Ray, New York Sun, July 10, 1934

Tesla on Power Development and Future Marvels, New York World Telegram, July 24, 1934

Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft In War, Every Week Magazine, October 21, 1934

The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through Natural Media, circa May 16, 1935

A Machine to End War, Liberty, February 1935

Tesla Predicts Ships Powered by Shore Beam, New York Herald Tribune, May 5, 1935

Tesla Tries to Prevent World War II, Prodigal Genius, 1944 -- Unpublished Chapter 34

Mechanical Therapy

Books

Tesla Book List

This report, written by the famous inventor Nikola Tesla, explains his big ideas on how to help humanity move forward. He thinks of all people on Earth as one big "mass" or body that is moving. He says the main job of science is to increase "human energy," which is his way of measuring how much progress we are making. He believes this is just like a science problem: you have a mass (people) and a force pushing it forward.

Tesla breaks down the problem into three parts. First, we need to increase the human mass, which means having more healthy, smart people. He suggests better food is the key, and he even figured out a way to pull nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer for farms. The second part is to reduce the things that slow us down, with the biggest one being war. Tesla's wild idea is that one day, wars will be fought by remote-controlled machines he calls "telautomatons," so no people will get hurt.

The third and most important part is to increase the force pushing humanity forward. For Tesla, this means finding more energy to do more work. All our energy comes from the sun, and he thinks we are wasting most of it. His biggest idea is a new way to send electricity anywhere on Earth without using any wires. He discovered that he could send powerful electrical waves through the ground and the air itself, which would make it possible to power the whole world with clean energy from places like waterfalls.

Key Ideas:

• Humanity as a Single Body: All people on Earth are connected and act like one single unit, which Tesla calls the "human mass."

• The Goal of Science: The most important job for scientists is to find ways to increase "human energy," which measures the progress and performance of all people.

• Three Ways to Improve: There are only three ways to increase human energy:

  1. Increase the mass (better food, health, and education).

  2. Reduce the forces slowing us down (like war, ignorance, and disease).

  3. Increase the force pushing us forward (more work and useful energy).

• Food from the Air: We can solve hunger by using electricity to take nitrogen from the atmosphere to create cheap fertilizer for soil.

• War Without People: The best way to end war is to create intelligent, remote-controlled machines (telautomatons) that can fight in place of humans.

• The Ultimate Energy Source: All of our energy comes from the sun. The key to the future is harnessing it better.

• Wireless World Power: The most powerful way to help humanity is to send electrical energy to any point on the globe without wires, using the earth and atmosphere as conductors.

Unique Events:

• Tesla describes a childhood problem where he would see vivid images that were not real.

• He discovered that these images were triggered by things he had actually seen.

• This experience made him believe that he was an "automaton," a machine responding to outside signals.

• He got the idea to build a mechanical automaton that would act like a person.

• He invented "telautomatics," the art of controlling machines remotely.

• He built a crewless boat that he could control from a distance with electrical waves.

• In a lecture, Tesla showed he could pass powerful, high-frequency electric currents through his own body without getting hurt.

• He demonstrated that he could light up lightbulbs using only a single wire, with no return wire.

• He proved it was possible to send electricity through the ground itself, without any wires at all.

• He sent electrical vibrations into the earth and detected an "echo," which he called a "stationary wave," proving the waves traveled to the far side of the planet and back.

• In his lab, he created a flame-like electrical discharge that was 65 feet across.

• He created electrical discharges (like lightning) that were over 100 feet long.

Keywords:

• Human Energy – Tesla's term for the total progress and power of humanity. He thought of it like a physics equation: $1/2\times \text{mass}\times {\text{velocity}}^2$.

• Mass (of man) – The idea of all people in the world acting as a single object or entity.

• Retarding Force – Anything that slows down human progress, like war, sickness, or ignorance.

• Telautomatics – The name Tesla gave to his new invention: the art of controlling machines from a distance without wires.

• Automaton – A machine that can move and act as if it has its own mind. Tesla’s first telautomaton was a remote-controlled boat.

• Electrical Oscillator – A powerful machine invented by Tesla to create extremely strong and fast electrical vibrations.

• Stationary Wave – An electrical "echo." Tesla discovered this when he sent electrical vibrations through the planet and they were reflected back, proving that wireless global communication was possible. 

  The Colorado Springs Experiments: Listening to the Planet's Pulse

  It was during his experiments in Colorado Springs in 1899 that Tesla claimed to have concrete proof of this phenomenon. Using a massive transmitter of his own design, he sent powerful electrical impulses into the ground. By carefully observing the returning signals with his sensitive receiving equipment, he noted that the reflected waves would return at regular intervals. He described this as the Earth "talking back" to his transmitter, much like an echo.

  These observations led him to believe he had discovered the Earth's natural resonant frequency. By tapping into this frequency, he envisioned a system where energy could be transmitted to any point on the globe. A transmitter would create the initial electrical disturbance, establishing a stationary wave. A receiver, tuned to the same frequency, could then draw energy from the antinodes of this global wave.

  A Vision for Global Wireless Communication

  For Tesla, the discovery of terrestrial stationary waves was far more significant than simply sending messages through the airwaves, a feat being pursued by his contemporary, Guglielmo Marconi. Tesla's system was designed to use the Earth as the transmission medium, which he believed would be far more efficient. He argued that his method would not radiate energy into space but would instead guide it along the surface and through the crust of the planet.

  This "World Wireless System," as he called it, would be capable of not only transmitting telegraphic messages and telephone conversations but also broadcasting news, music, and even images to any point on Earth. Ultimately, he dreamed of transmitting electrical power wirelessly, freeing humanity from the constraints of a wired infrastructure. Though his grand vision was never fully realized due to financial and practical challenges, his foundational work on resonance and the concept of the Earth as a conductor laid the groundwork for many modern technologies.

• Ambient Medium – The environment all around us, like the air, water, and earth. Tesla believed we could pull energy directly from it.

Fragments of Olympian Gossip

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"Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend, George Sylvester Viereck, an illustrious German poet and mystic. It made fun of the scientific establishment of the day.^[1]

While listening on my cosmic phone
I caught words from the Olympus blown.
A newcomer was shown around;
That much I could guess, aided by sound.

"There's Archimedes with his lever
Still busy on problems as ever.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."

"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast
And news are coming in thick and fast.
The latest tells of a cosmic gun.
To be pelted is very poor fun.
We are wary with so much at stake,
Those beggars are a pest—no mistake."

"Too bad, Sir Isaac, they dimmed your renown
And turned your great science upside down.
Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name,
Puts on your high teaching all the blame.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."

"I am much too ignorant, my son,
For grasping schemes so finely spun.
My followers are of stronger mind
And I am content to stay behind,
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best,
These masters of mine may do the rest.
Come, Kelvin, I have finished my cup.
When is your friend Tesla coming up."

"Oh, quoth Kelvin, he is always late,
It would be useless to remonstrate."

Then silence—shuffle of soft slippered feet—
I knock and—the bedlam of the street.

Nikola Tesla, Novice ^[2]

The "Dynamic Theory of Gravity" was one of two Teslas's discoveries, which he worked out in all details in the years 1893 and 1894.
More complete statements concerning these discoveries can only be gleaned from scattered and sparse sources, because the papers of Tesla are concealed in government vaults for national security reasons. These papers are located at the "National Security Research Center" now the "Robert J. Oppenheimer Research Center". These discoveries are denied access because they were classified, even though plans for the hydrogen bomb are on an open shelf and could be seen and copied.