AIEE Transactions: Tesla’s 1888 and 1891 Lectures

Where Tesla’s core AIEE papers appear in the Transactions volumes and how to locate them in the primary scans.

Overview

Two of Tesla’s most cited technical papers appear in the Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. We have verified the volumes and page ranges using primary scans and the AIEE index volume.

1888 — A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers

• Volume: AIEE Transactions Vol. V (1888)
• Paper title: “A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers”
• Index range: printed pages 305–324 (confirm exact start page on title page)
• Scan: Google Books PDF (primary scan)

1891 — Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency

• Volume: AIEE Transactions Vol. VIII (1891)
• Paper title: “Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination”
• Index range: printed pages 267–319
• Scan: Google Books PDF (primary scan)

Why this matters

These two papers anchor Tesla’s technical record in professional proceedings. They are primary documents used to cross‑verify later retellings and secondary compilations.

Sources

• AIEE index volume (1884–1900): https://archive.org/details/transactions-american-institute-of-electrical-engineers_1884-1900_1_index
• AIEE Transactions Vol. V (1888) PDF: https://books.google.com/books?id=_l9QRiE89pkC
• AIEE Transactions Vol. VIII (1891) PDF: https://books.google.com/books?id=0C8SAAAAIAAJ
• AIEE Transactions vols. 1–17 (bound scan): https://archive.org/details/transactionsame54unkngoog