Nikola TESLA 1919 Autobiography : Electrical Experimenter Science and Invention

Description: Up for grabs! Electrical Experimenter : Science & Invention Beginning: « My inventions » by Nikola Tesla Published by Hugo Gernsback February 1919AuthenticGood condition for its age.Misprint on page 705 (see last 2 photos)As isDo not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions or if you need more photos. (Extract from crotia.org) In his autobiography My Inventions, published in 1919 by Electrical Experimenter in New York, Nikola Tesla provides a short outline of his life and work, as well as his visions for the future. It is interesting that his visions include mobile phones and the internet, some eighty years before their actual appearance. These visions are formulated as follows (in the fifth part of My Inventions, entitled The Magnifying Transmitter):This invention was one of a number included in my "World-System" of wireless transmission which I undertook to commercialize on my return to New York in 1900. As to the immediate purposes of my enterprise, they were clearly outlined in a technical statement of that period from which I quote:"The 'World-System' has resulted from a combination of several original discoveries made by the inventor in the course of long continued research and experimentation. It makes possible not only the instantaneous and precise wireless transmission of any kind of signals, messages or characters, to all parts of the world, but also the inter-connection of the existing telegraph, telephone, and other signal stations without any change in their present equipment. By its means, for instance, a telephone subscriber here may call up and talk to any other subscriber on the Globe. An inexpensive receiver, not bigger than a watch, will enable him to listen anywhere, on land or sea, to a speech delivered or music played in some other place, however distant. These examples are cited merely to give an idea of the possibilities of this great scientific advance, which annihilates distance and makes that perfect natural conductor, the Earth, available for all the innumerable purposes which human ingenuity has found for a line-wire. One far-reaching result of this is that any device capable of being operated thru one or more wires (at a distance obviously restricted) can likewise be actuated, without artificial conductors and with the same facility and accuracy, at distances to which there are no limits other than those imposed by the physical dimensions of the Globe. Thus, not only will entirely new fields for commercial exploitation be opened up by this ideal method of transmission but the old ones vastly extended. ..."

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