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Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Nikola Tesla Public domain text from Project Gutenberg. Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13476-h.htm or 13476-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/4/7/13476/13476-h/13476-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/4/7/13476/13476-h.zip) EXPERIMENTS WITH ALTERNATE CURRENTS OF HIGH POTENTIAL AND HIGH FREQUENCY A Lecture Delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London by NIKOLA TESLA With a Portrait and Biographical Sketch of the Author NEW YORK 1892 Biographical Sketch of Nikola Tesla. While a large portion of the European family has been surging westward 1 during the last three or four hundred years, settling the vast continents of America, another, but smaller, portion has been doing frontier work in the Old World, protecting the rear by beating back the "unspeakable Turk" and reclaiming gradually the fair lands that endure the curse of Mohammedan rule. For a long time the Slav people--who, after the battle of Kosovopjolje, in which the Turks defeated the Servians, retired to the confines of the present Montenegro, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia, and "Borderland" of Austria--knew what it was to deal, as our Western pioneers did, with foes ceaselessly fretting against their frontier; and the races of these countries, through their strenuous struggle against the armies of the Crescent, have developed notable qualities of bravery and sagacity, while maintaining a patriotism and independence unsurpassed in any other nation. It was in this interesting border region, and from among these valiant Eastern folk, that Nikola Tesla was born in the year 1857, and the fact that…

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