Nikola Tesla on His Work With Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview (Tesla Presents Series, Pt. 1)
"The fledgling broadcast industry of the early 1900s was blighted by fierce patent litigations.  Patents in this highly innovative field were often loosely formulated and most wireless systems contained devices whose patents were held by several inventors or Entrepreneurs.  One of the most charismatic of these people was Nikola Tesla... This document, never intended for publication, is a transcript of a pre-hearing interview with Tesla by his legal counsel in 1916... Tesla gives a fascinating account of the stages that led him in the 1890s to attempt to transmit electrical power through the earth without the use of wires.  --Nature, June 17, 1993, Vol. 363, page 592."The subject of this book is a collection of Interviews conducted with Tesla by his legal counsel in 1916.  The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. sought to trample all competition by patenting every device used in radio communication.  Tesla was interviewed to document his prior work and accomplishments,  and thus protect them from rapacious Marconi Co.  Although the interview took place over seven days, the editor has assembled the transcript into a contiguous document... And what a document!  Tersla well knew what fascinating work he was doing, and you can sense his enthusiasm as he describes apparatus capable of generating tens of thousands of volts and drawing sparks 135 feet long.  Indeed, one of his goals was to broadcast energy through the air, rather than via wires... reduce the power and modulate the wave and you have radio...  --QST, March 1995, page 116"This material provides both technical and anecdotal evidence on Tesla's experiments with and applications of wireless telegraphy and telephony.  In addition to their new data, these transcripts also provide readers with a different sense of Tesla's personality.  --Society for the History of Technology, Antenna Newsletter, December 1992, page 3--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.