SOURCE: "Project Insight: A Study of Tesla's Advanced Concepts," in Proceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium, International Tesla Society, Inc., 1985, pp. 11-28.

In the following essay, Jones provides an overview of Tesla's career, with an emphasis on his ideas regarding "Free Energy", in an effort to encourage further study and experimentation based on the scientist's principles.

Introduction

The Problem

Very few individuals in history have generated as profound an impact on Social Change as that contributed by Nikola Tesla, a native of Serbia (now Yugoslavia) who proudly became an American citizen late in the nineteenth century.

The Industrial Revolution was accompanied by a restructuring of existing societal, economic, cultural and political establishments. Such restructuring has extended to the present time; it has continued to accelerate, as demonstrated by current national and international socio-politico-economic strife. Suffice it to say that the harnessing and utilization of electricity, including rapid expansion...