Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
New York: W. J. Johnston, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Contains a brief biography, a portrait, and 146 pages of text and illustrations describing Tesla’s celebrated May 1891 lecture at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and connected lectures to electrical engineers in Europe. In them he expounded the merits and integrities of alternating curret and demeaned the failings of direct current, a visionary insight that drove the world to adopt Tesla’s findings and use them to power civilization to this day. Original brown blindstamped cloth (also seen in light tan and green), 4 pages of ads at the end, inner paper hinges neatly strengthened, a big chip to a corner of the rear free endpaper repaired, else near fine, the cloth noticeably brilliant. Often called rare, and then priced as if it is rare, but it isn’t. Near fine. Item #495
Electricity is composed of minute particles called electrons which you can’t see unless you are using very high quality drugs. As for me, I still don’t understand why I can’t toast a grilled cheese sandwich on an electric guitar, but I do understand business, and the reason Tesla never got rich (his life was a melancholy country song) was because he kept trying to wow people instead of trying to sell to them, and anyway, all the money made on electric power went to the company that thought up that meter they hang on your house. And speaking of domestic utilities, I would not want to give up the benefits of modern home electricity, but it does not escape me that the technology powered by it is a sneaky, attention demanding servant, that has enticed us to turn our backs on quiet and become more tolerant of noise. So unaware, and high on ease, we stand by and watch, as silence slips into legend.
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