It is hard to explain the avalanche of fake history surrounding this important scientist, who built the foundations for remote control, wireless communication, and modern electrical grids. Depending on who you ask, there are many different versions of Nikola Tesla. 

Suspecting that German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was recently demolished with dynamite. During the past month several strangers had been seen lurking about the place.

There are many books on this subject, but not all of them are worth buying. Here are the three best books on Nikola Tesla.

By Arthur Brisbane. There is a small country in Europe called Lika, and in that country there is a village of forty houses, called Smiljan.You have probably never heard of either, but you and many others will live to know about a baby that was born in the village of Smiljan in the country called Lika thirty-seven years ago.

A brief overview of Tesla’s origins with attached interviews from 1894 and 1898 for reference.

On this page you will find virtually everything Nikola Tesla said in public while pondering life on other planets. Taken out of context, Tesla’s quotes about aliens might seem silly, and many people will think less of Tesla for approaching the topic at all. It is important to note that during the late 1800s/early 1900s, alien life was a trending topic just as our congressional hearings and news agencies in the 2020s are abuzz with stories about UFO or UAP activity. 

I have scarcely had courage enough to address an audience on a few unavoidable occasions, and the experience of this evening, even as disconnected from the cause of our meeting, is quite novel to me. Although in those few instances, of which I have retained agreeable memory, my words have met with a generous reception, I never deceived myself, and knew quite well that my success was not due to any excellency in the rhetorical or demonstrative art.

My Inventions by Nikola Telsa, also known as the Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. (1919)

Here are two of the most unique and productive minds in history. In fact, their achievements are so great and perplexing that the average person cannot tell you why either is famous.

Tesla also wooed his audiences by performing live electrical experiments, and the transcript of this lecture gives us a glimpse of what it would be like to actually see a performance by Nikola Tesla.

The Evening World (New York)

July 17th, 1903

Whatever Nikola Tesla is trying to do at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, he has succeeded in keeping the natives guessing. Some think he is trying to signal Mars; others think that he has evolved a new system of communication by electricity through the air without wires;

This interview was published in several newspapers in 1894. The below images correspond to the publication of this article in The Galveston Daily News. This newspaper was founded in 1842 and is still in operation today, boasting itself as the oldest newspaper in Texas.

The New York Herald. May 24, 1896. Tesla’s Bright Light by Henry Tyrell.

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One of the reasons many people will find this article interesting is because this article houses one of many instances in which Tesla says positive things about Thomas Edison.

On Nikola Tesla’s birthday in mid-July, the electrical term which his name has become is regenerated as a tall, meagre, eagle-headed man. Reporters hunt him out of his hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again.

GREAT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY Impends --Nikola Tesla "I Positively Expect That Within the Next Decade New Sources of Energy Will Be Opened Up Which
Will Put at the Disposal of Mankind Everywhere Power
in Unlimited Amounts--I Have Made a Discovery
Which I Expect to Announce Soon"
By Harry Goldberg

NIKOLA TESLA, the noted inventor, is preparing to make public within the near future the announcement of a discovery which will make available to the world new sources of energy.

For over a century and a half the whole world, educated and otherwise, thought that the moon revolved around its axis. Nikola Tesla in the present highly instructive article disproves that theory and will convince scientists and all others alike that the moon does so such thing.

Proving his theory that a man's efficiency and accomplishments should increase, and not diminish with mellow age', Nikola Tesla, inventor, physicist, and one of the world's leading electrical technicians, enters his seventy-eighth year busily engaged on three or four great scientific projects. Several of these inventions or discoveries will be looked upon as "miracles" by many people, for Mr. Tesla has long been a scientist years ahead of his time, one whose advanced theories have alternately stamped him a "madman" and a wizard.

To begin, will you tell me, Mr. Tesla, which of the modern discoveries and inventions do you think will have the greatest effect on the future development of human interest?