Books like Nikola Tesla by University Press

When their home burns, Nick and his younger brother move into a ramshackle Victorian house. In the attic they uncover odd inventions, a magnetic vortex, and a dangerous, supernatural plot spun by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.

A chambermaid at the New Yorker Hotel discovers that the enigmatic room‑3127 occupant, Nikola Tesla, has turned his brief stay into a scientific laboratory, weaving a tale of invention and mystery during Tesla’s final week.

This work, the third installment of the Tesla Presents series, is based upon legal records associated with the Nikola Tesla vs. Reginald A. Fessenden Patent Interference on the Fundamental AND-Gate logic circuit. While the U.S. Patent Office record is sufficiently important on the basis of its title alone, Tesla winning the claim to this invention, surprisingly the deposition contains heretofore unpublished disclosures by Tesla on the operation of his large high frequency resonators at both the Houston Street laboratory in New York and the Experimental Station in Colorado. Information is presented on what Tesla spoke of as the "art of individualization" for obtaining various levels of security in wireless transmissions. Also included is material on the history of radio-controlled devices, the first practical form of these being Tesla's radio-controlled "teleautomaton" - an operational boat first demonstrated to the public at Madison Square Garden in 1898.

Electrician Mick Vincent is searching for a pressure plate for his 1936 Buick Roadmaster ; he finds it, but also finds a diary belonging to electronics genius Nikola Tesla. What was Nikola Tesla doing in New South Wales in 1925? The United States Department of National Security would be interested in knowing, too, and Mick's life is in danger.