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Scarce issue of The Electrical Experimenter from February 1919, featuring a front cover image of Sarony’s famous photo of Nikola Tesla holding an illuminated lightbulb, with main article headline, “The Tesla Wireless Light, See Page 692,” and header text, “Beginning: ‘My Inventions,’ by Nikola Tesla.” The magazine, 80 pages (pp. 681-760), 9 x 12, features two articles written by Tesla, including: ‘Famous Scientific Illusions,’ which contains his thoughts on three subjects, ‘The Illusion of the Axial Rotation of the Moon,’ ‘The Fallacy of Franklin’s Pointed Lightning-Rod,’ and ‘The Singular Misconception of the Wireless.’ The second article is entitled ‘My Inventions: 1. My Early Life,’ which served as the opening installment of an autobiographical series published by the magazine throughout 1919. In very good condition, with an edge tear to the bottom edge of the dampstained and detached cover.
Tesla’s autobiographical installments were later compiled into the book ‘My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla.’ The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old. Tesla's personal account is divided into six chapters covering different periods of his life: My Early Life, My First Efforts At Invention, My Later Endeavors, The Discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field, The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, The Magnifying Transmitter, and The Art of Telautomatics.
