Collected Writings of Nikola Tesla. Thomas Commerford Martin

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

       Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       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 Generator 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 Motor.

       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. Introduction.—The Scope of the Tesla Lectures.

       CHAPTER XXVI. Experiments With Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination.1

       CHAPTER XXVII. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency.

       CHAPTER XXVIII. On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena.

       CHAPTER XXIX. Tesla Alternating Current Generators for High Frequency, in Detail.

       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 Driect From Alternating Currents.

       CHAPTER XXXIV. Condensers with Plates