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051893

On mechanical and electrical oscillators
The Nikola Tesla Museum: ‘Lecture given on August 25, 1893, in the hall adjoining the Agricultural Building at the Chicago World’s Fair. This lecture was not published and the manuscript was not preserved among Tesla’s papers. It was most probably destroyed, along with his other belongings, in the fire of March 13, 1895. Thanks to journalist and publicist T.K. Martin, a detailed overview of the lecture and Tesla’s experiments appeared in the press at the time’.

081899

On the art of teleautomatics - Lecture given on May 13, 1899, at the Chicago Business Club. This lecture is preserved in an incomplete and unfinished form in the Archives of the Nikola Tesla Museum.

091901

The phenomenon of high frequencies
Experimental demonstrations in the Havemeyer Hall of Columbia University, New York on the evening of April 12, 1901.

101911

New inventions by Tesla
Lecture at a meeting of the New York branch of the National Electric Light Association held in the New York building of the Association of Electrical Engineers on the evening of Monday, May 15, 1911.

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