Nikola Tesla

Recommended reading:

Tesla's Engine -- A New Dimension of Power ($20), compiled by Jeffrey A. Hayes, published by TEBA

TEBA Membership Manual  ($35 join fee) Also back issues of TEBA articles listed on their web site

The Tesla Disc Turbine ($10) by W.M.J. Cairns, Lindsay Books

Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics, 2nd Ed. 
($20) H.C. "Skip" Smith, TAB books (McGraw-Hill)

Manuals from bearing companies (NTN, Browning) contain valuable info on lubrication, etc.

Also... brush up on trigonometry, and study principles of steam turbines at your local library

Nikola Tesla's Patents

Tesla Turbine 
U.S. Patent 1,061,206

(May 6, 1913)

Improvements in the Construction
of Steam and Gas Turbines 
British Patent 186,082

(September 25, 1922)

Books by or about
Nikola Tesla

My Inventions: Autobiography of Nikola Tesla -
Nikola Tesla, Ben Johnston (Editor)

Tesla, Man Out of Time - Margaret Cheney

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla - by Thomas C. Martin

The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress

More books & research papers are available at:

Twenty First Century Books