seriously...
just read this in order and you will follow/understand Tesla's work
You got to have a basic understanding of electro-magnetism to get it though.
you can always check out the patents when tesla make references to some in his writings.
top of the page = patents
bottom = articles
Once you read this you will even be able to tell if an article about a Tesla paper is genuine or fake.
Its not trivial... but hey its worth the effort
at
www.tesla.hu...
(Lectures - Articles):
1888-05-16: A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers
1888-06-22: The Tesla Alternate Current Motor
1889-05-25: Mr. Nikola Tesla on Alternate Current Motors
1890-04-09: The Losses Due to Hysteresis in Transformers
1890-09-24: Swinburne's "Hedgehog" Transformer
1890-09-24: Tesla's New Alternating Motors
1891-02-21: Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency
1891-03-18: Experiments With Alternating Currents of High Frequency
1891-04-03: Alternate Current Motors
1891-04-03: Electro-motors
1891-04-08: Phenomena of Currents of High Frequency
1891-05-06: Alternate Current Electrostatic Induction Apparatus
1891-05-06: An Electrolytic Clock
1891-05-20: Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination
1891-07-01: Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes
1891-09-02: Notes on a Unipolar Dynamo
1892-02-__: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
1892-10-08: The "Drehstrom" Patent
1892-12-17: The Ewing High-Frequency Alternator and Parson's Steam Engine
1892-12-21: On the Dissipation of the Electrical Energy of the Hertz Resonator
1893-02-__: On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena
1893-02-11: The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents
1896-02-16: From Nikola Tesla - He Writes About His Experiments in Electrical Healing
1896-03-11: On Roentgen Rays (1)
1896-03-18: On Roentgen Rays (2) - Latest Results
1896-03-18: Tesla's Latest Results - He Now Produces Radiographs at a Distance of More Than Forty Feet
1896-04-01: On Reflected Roentgen Rays
1896-04-08: On Roentgen Radiations
1896-04-22: Roentgen Ray Investigations
1896-05-09: On Apparatus for Cathography
1896-07-08: An Interesting Feature of X-Ray Radiations
1896-08-12: Roentgen Rays or Streams
1896-12-01: On the Roentgen Streams
1896-12-23: Mr. Tesla on Thermo Electricity
1897-01-27: On Electricity
1897-03-__: The Age of Electricity
1897-05-05: On the Hurtful Actions of Lenard and Roentgen Tubes
1897-08-11: On the Source of Roentgen Rays and the Practical Construction and Safe Operation of Lenard Tubes
1898-01-05: Tesla's Latest Advances in Vacuum-Tube Lighting - Application of Tubes of High Illuminating Power to Photography and Other Purposes
1898-02-06: Tesla on Animal Training by Electricity
1898-09-13: High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes
1898-11-13: My Submarine Destroyer
1898-11-24: Letter to Editor
1898-11-30: Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work
1899-03-15: On Current Interrupters
1899-03-29: Some Experiments in Tesla's Laboratory With Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
1900-06-__: The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
1901-01-30: Tesla's New Discovery - Capacity of Electrical Conductors is Variable
1901-02-02: Tesla's Wireless Light
1901-02-09: Talking With Planets
1902-05-18: Tesla Thinks Wind Power Should be Used More Now
1904-01-01: Electrical oscillator activity ten million Horsepower
1904-02-06: A Striking Tesla Manifesto
1904-03-05: The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires
1904-11-27: Letter From Tesla (Refers to subway system)
1904-12-29: Electric Autos - Nikola Tesla's View of the Future in Motive Power
1905-01-07: The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As a Means for Furthering Peace
1905-06-24: Tesla on Subway Dangers
1905-07-14: Tesla's Reply to Edison
1905-07-16: Tesla On The Peary North Pole Expedition
1907-03-__: Signalling to Mars - A Problem of Electrical Engineering
1907-03-08: Tuned Lightning
1907-03-20: Tesla's Wireless Torpedo
1907-03-26: Wireless on Railroads
1907-05-02: Nikola Tesla Objects
1907-05-03: Tesla's Tidal Wave to Make War Impossible
1907-05-19: Mr. Tesla on the Wireless Transmission of Power
1907-06-23: Can Bridge Gap to Mars
1907-10-19: Sleep From Electricity
1907-10-22: Possibilities of "Wireless"
1907-10-25: Tesla on Wireless
1907-12-20: My Apparatus, Says Tesla
1908-__-__: The Future of the Wireless Art
1908-01-05: Nikola Tesla's Forecast for 1908
1908-04-21: Mr. Tesla's Vision
1908-06-08: Little Aeroplane Progress
1908-09-15: Tesla on Aeroplanes
1909-05-23: How to Signal Mars
1909-12-24: Nikola Tesla's New Wireless
1910-01-16: What Science May Achieve This Year - New Mechancial Principle for Conservation of Energy
1912-05-__: Mr. Tesla on the Future
1912-07-06: The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy
1913-11-09: Nikola Tesla Plans to Keep "Wireless Thumb" on Ships at Sea
1914-03-21: From Nikola Tesla (Tribute to George Westinghouse)
1914-05-22: Tesla and Marconi
1914-12-20: Science and Discovery are the great Forces which will lead to the Consummation of the War
1915-02-07: How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies
1915-06-05: Some Personal Recollections
1915-09-09: The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity
1915-10-03: Nikola Tesla Sees a Wireless Vision
1915-10-04: Correction by Mr. Tesla
1915-12-08: Tesla's New Device Like Bolts of Thor
1916-12-02: Wonders of the Future
1917-02-25: Electric Drive for Battle Ships
1917-04-15: Nikola Tesla Tells of Country's War Problems
1917-05-18: Minutes of the Edison Medal Meeting, May 18, 1917, with Nikola Tesla's Acceptance Speech on Receiving the Edison Medal
1917-08-__: Tesla's Views on Electricity and the War
1918-02-07: A Lighting Machine on Novel Principles
1919-01-__: The Effect of Statics on Wireless Transmission
1919-02-__: Famous Scientific Illusions
1919-02-23: Tesla Answers Mr. Manierre and Further Explains the Axial Rotation of the Moon
1919-04-__: The Moon's Rotation
1919-04-__: Tesla on High Frequency Generators
1919-05-__: The True Wireless
1919-06-__: The Moon's Rotation
1919-06-__: My Inventions, V. The Magnifying Transmitter
1919-07-__: Electrical Oscillators
1919-07-__: Nikola Tesla Tells How We May Fly Eight Miles High at 1,000 Miles an Hour
1919-10-__: Can Radio Ignite Balloons?
1919-10-12: Signals to Mars Based on Hope of Life on Planet
1920-12-11: Developments in Practice and Art of Telephotography
1921-09-24: Interplanetary Communication
1921-09-26: Nikola Tesla on Electric Transmission
1923-02-25: A Giant Eye to See Round the World
1927-10-16: 'World System' of Wireless Transmission of Energy
1929-09-22: Nikola Tesla Tells of New Radio Theories
1929-11-29: Mr. Tesla Speaks Out
1930-04-__: Tesla Maps Out Our Electrical Future
1930-04-13: Letter to Editor (On Marconi's feat)
1930-07-06: Man's Greatest Achievement
1931-07-20: Tesla at 75
1931-11-__: Faster Than Light!
1931-11-07: No High Speed Limit, Says Tesla
1931-12-__: On Future Motive Power
1932-02-06: Dr. Tesla Writes of Various Phases of His Discovery
1932-04-15: Statement of Tesla Relating to Force and Matter
1932-07-10: Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor May Transmit Power 'Round Earth
1932-07-10: Tesla, 76, Reports His Talents At Peak
1932-08-10: Chewing Gum More Fatal Than Rum, Says Tesla
1932-09-11: Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views on Power
1933-06-05: Mr. Tesla Writes (Refers to J. P. Morgan)
1933-09-10: Tremendous New Power Soon to be Unleashed
1933-11-02: Tesla 'Harnesses' Cosmic Energy
1933-12-__: Breaking up Tornadoes
1934-03-__: Possibilities of Electro-Static Generators
1934-04-__: Nikola Tesla Writes (Additional comments on electrostatic generators)
1934-04-08: Tesla Sees Evidence Radio and Light Are Sound
1934-07-__: Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World
1934-07-10: Invents Peace Ray - Tesla Describes His Beam of Destructive Energy
1934-07-11: Death-Ray Machine Described
1934-07-11: Tesla, at 78, Bares New 'Death-Beam'
1934-07-11: Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles, Tesla's Claim on 78th Birthday
1934-07-24: Tesla on Power Development and Future Marvels
1934-10-21: Tribute to King Alexander
1934-10-21: Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft in war
1935-02-__: A Machine to End War
1935-03-03: German Cosmic Ray Theory Questioned
1935-06-05: Tesla Predicts Ships Powered by Shore Beam
1935-07-09: 3 Tesla Inventions
1935-07-11: Nikola Tesla, at 79, Uses Earth to Transmit Signals; Expects to Have $100,000,000 Within Two Years (Kivonatok a cikkből)
1935-07-11: Tesla's Controlled Earthquake
1935-07-11: Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force
1935-08-18: Expanding Sun Will Explode Someday Tesla Predicts (Kivonatok a cikkből)
1935-09-22: Nikola Tesla Tells How He'd Defend Ethiopia Against Italian Invasion
1936-07-11: Tesla, 80, Reveals New Power Device
1937-07-10: Prepared Statement of Tesla (For interview with press on 81st birthday observance)
1937-07-11: Sending of Messages to Planets Predicted by Dr. Tesla on Birthday
1937-07-12: Tesla Has Plan to Signal Mars
1937-07-27: Dr. Tesla's Honors
1937-08-22: In the Realm of Science: Tesla, Who Predicted Radio, Now Looks Forward to Sending Waves to the moon
1938-05-12: Text of Tesla Speech for the Institute of Immigrant Welfare
1938-10-08: Reference to Compass in 13th Century Poem
1939-__-__: Story of Youth Told by Age
1939-07-26: The Soviet Sacrifice of Spain
1940-07-12: Aerial Defense 'Death-Beam' Offered to U. S. By Tesla
1940-09-22: 'Death Ray' for Planes
1940-10-20: Proposing the 'Death Ray' for Defense
_No_Date_: Mechanical Therapy
_No_Date_: The New Tesla Electric Heater
_No_Date_: Tesla's New System of Fluid Propulsion
1948-05-16: Nikola Tesla (Summary of some major achievements of Nikola Tesla)
Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900