The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

<p>NIKOLA TESLA was one of the most influential inventors of the last century. Eventually holding over 700 patents, Tesla worked in a number of fields, including electricity, robotics, radar, and the wireless transmission of energy. His discoveries laid the groundwork for many of the twentieth century's greatest technological advances.</p><p>This book explains Tesla's thoughts on humanity's relationship with the universe, and also his explanation and scientific extrapolation on the technological advancements embodied in his work.</p><p>This text, first published in Century Illustrated Magazine in June 1900, is yet another example of the genius of Nikola Tesla.</p>Contents<p>Introduction</p><ul><li>The onward movement of humanity</li><li>The energy of the movement</li><li>The three ways of increasing human energy</li></ul><p>1</p><ul><li>The first problem: how to increase human mass</li><li>The burning of atmospheric nitrogen</li></ul><p>2</p><ul><li>The second problem: how to reduce the force retarding the human mass</li><li>The art of telautomatics</li></ul><p>3</p><ul><li>The third problem: how to increase the force accelerating the human mass</li><li>The harnessing of the Sun's energy</li></ul><p>4</p><ul><li>The source of human energy</li><li>The three ways of drawing energy from the Sun</li></ul><p>5</p><ul><li>Great possibilities offered by iron for increasing human performance</li><li>Enormous waste in iron manufacture</li></ul><p>6</p><ul><li>Economical production of iron by a new process</li></ul><p>7</p><ul><li>The coming of age of aluminium</li><li>The doom of the copper industry</li><li>The great civilizing potency of the new metal</li></ul><p>8</p><ul><li>Efforts toward obtaining more energy from coal</li><li>Electric transmission</li><li>The gas engine</li><li>The cold-coal battery</li></ul><p>9</p><ul><li>Energy from the medium</li><li>The windmill and the solar engine</li><li>Motive power from terrestrial heat</li><li>Electricity from natural sources</li></ul><p>10</p><ul><li>A departure from known methods</li><li>The possibility of a 'self-acting' engine or machine</li><li>The ideal way of obtaining motive power</li></ul><p>11</p><ul><li>First efforts to produce the self-acting engine</li><li>The mechanical oscillator</li><li>The work of Dewar and Linde</li><li>Liquid air</li></ul><p>12</p><ul><li>Discovery of unexpected properties of the atmosphere</li><li>Strange experiments</li><li>Transmission of electrical energy through one wire without return</li><li>Transmission through the Earth without any wire</li></ul><p>13</p><ul><li>Wireless telegraphy</li><li>The secret of tuning</li><li>Errors in the Hertzian investigations</li><li>A receiver of wonderful sensitivity</li></ul><p>14</p><ul><li>Development of a new principle</li><li>The electrical oscillator</li><li>Production of immense electrical movements</li><li>The Earth responds to man</li><li>Interplanetary communication now probable</li></ul><p>15</p><ul><li>Transmission of electrical energy to any distance without wires now possible</li><li>The best means of increasing the force accelerating the human mass</li></ul>