Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

"My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." - attr.

True Wireless & the World System

• "On Electricity" (1897), in which Tesla suggests "the transmission of power from station to station without the employment of any connecting wire."
• "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" (1900)
• "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires" (1904), a letter on the preliminary stages of a plan to wirelessly transmit energy on an industrial scale.
• "The True Wireless" (1919), article on the Tesla tuned-oscillatory system and arguments against conventional Hertzian wave theory.
• "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy" (1927)

Interplanetary Communications

• "Is Tesla to Signal Stars?" (1896), a summation of news reports on Tesla's proposed experiments.
• "Interplanetary Communication Now Probable" (1900), from Tesla's broader overview of his efforts, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy".
• "Signalling to Mars — A Problem of Electrical Engineering" (1907), written by Tesla himself.
• "Tesla to Talk to Mars" (1907), a summation of reports on Tesla's plans to conduct wireless transmissions to Mars from Wardenclyffe.
• "Talking with the Planets" (1909), written by Tesla, a "frank statement of what he expects to accomplish and how he hopes to establish communication with the planets."
• "That Prospective Communication with Another Planet" (1919), summation of reports on Tesla's response to Marconi's claims of receiving interstellar wireless signals.
• "Signals to Mars Based on Hope of Life on Planet" (1919), written by Tesla, details the challenges and promise of any attempt to communicate with Mars via wireless.

About Tesla and His Work

• Gaston Burridge on "Nikola Tesla - and the Chain of Silent Sparks" (1956)
• Gerry Vassilatos on "The Broadcast Power of Nikola Tesla" (1996)
• Robert Nelson on "Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter Experiments of 1899" (1997)
• George Trinkaus on "The Tesla Mystique: Nikola Tesla, The Philadelphia Experiment, HAARP and Other Folklore" (2008)

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