

But few people know that he was more than a great inventor. It seems any mention of Nikola Tesla must be accompanied by a few obligatory proverbs - he was a genius, he transformed the world, he was ahead of his time, etc.

I became so interested in Tesla that I eventually built my own Tesla coil, I wrote a Tesla coil design program called TeslaMap and created the Tesla Coil Design, Construction and Operation Guide. I thought it strange that Tesla had contributed so much to the world, yet he's virtually unknown to most people. I discovered that Tesla developed several of the most important technologies we use today. I was taking electronics engineering classes in college when I first learned about Nikola Tesla. Tesla was 63 years old when this text was first published in the Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919. Welcome to Nikola Tesla's autobiography My Inventions.
