Tesla Archive

Nikola Tesla patents and original sources.

Read the radiant-energy research paper and explore the historical collections below. Collection names are research topics, not counts of digitized holdings.

Source-Led Reading

History, claims, and measured results.

Tesla history

Wardenclyffe: Wireless Power vs. Free Energy

What Tesla's tower was meant to transmit, what the historical record establishes, and why wireless delivery is not energy generation.

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Claim audit

Stanley Meyer's Water Buggy: An Energy-Balance Audit

Read Meyer's fuel-gas patent, separate hydrogen from an energy source, and see what a convincing independent test must measure.

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Measured research

Ambient RF Harvesting: How Much Power Is Available?

Compare published RF-harvesting and backscatter experiments, calculate a conditional power budget, and distinguish sensors from household loads.

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US Patent 685,957: Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy

Sample archive record architecture: patent metadata, figure notes, claim language, related people, public-domain source links, and replication discussions.

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Aether & Ambient Energy Harvesting

Follow the idea from the 1887 aether-wind test through Tesla's radiant-energy patent, Casimir experiments, and measured harvesting from humidity, RF, atmospheric electricity, and nighttime cooling.

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Collections

Historical research topics.

Tesla Patents

Canonical patent records with figures, claim notes, citations, and related build threads.

Tesla Lectures

Lectures, public demonstrations, diagrams, newspaper context, and linked discussions.

Letters & Correspondence

Correspondence metadata, people links, dates, archive provenance, and transcriptions.

Historical Newspapers

Press mentions, timelines, scans, bias notes, and cross-references.

Wardenclyffe

Site records, photographs, financiers, public claims, and modern interpretation.

Colorado Springs

Lab notes, apparatus references, weather context, and experiment indexing.

Niagara Falls

AC power system history, contracts, engineering milestones, and people profiles.

Tesla Turbines

Patents, build attempts, engineering papers, and test results.