My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla

Welcome to Nikola Tesla’s autobiography My Inventions. Tesla was 63 years old when this text was first published in the Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919.
I was taking electronics engineering classes in college when I first learned about Nikola Tesla. I discovered that Tesla developed several of the most important technologies we use today. I thought it strange that Tesla had contributed so much to the world, yet he’s virtually unknown to most people. He’s a true unsung hero. 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. But enough about me…