Nikola Tesla Man Or Spaceman : Michael X 1970 [ Saucerian Books ]
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Rare first edition of the conspiratorial pamphlet Nikola Tesla Man or Spaceman ? which claims Tesla was from Venus and contains schematics for supposedly suppressed inventions
X, Michael. Nikola Tesla Man or Spaceman ? Saucerian Books : Clarksburg, West Virginia. 1970. First edition.
This rare early pamphlet from Saucerian Books puts forward the theory that Nikola Tesla was a “spaceman” from Venus who landed in a rocket ship as a baby (a la Superman) in Austria Hungary in 1856. Described as “the greatest salvage operation since Jesus”, the author claims Tesla’s arrival and inventions are part of a Divine Plan and capable of solving “every immediate need of humanity on the physical plane” if put into widespread use. With wireless electricity and an electromagnetic “anti-war machine” already supposedly suppressed by “the forces of darkness, securely entrenched behind the world’s financial interests”, the text says that the world can be saved by spreading and utilizing the inventions it describes within. These are a “Tesla Scope for Space Communication” based on a device purportedly built by Tesla and one Arthur H Matthews in 1938 which Matthews claims to have used since 1941 to speak regularly with the Venusians from whom Tesla received the inspiration and insights to build his inventions (Matthews, who would also write his own book on the subject in 1973, The Wall of Light: Nikola Tesla and the X-12 Spaceship, further claims that Venusian technology runs on thought waves alone). Also included are a schematic and description of a “Tesla Space Drive” supposedly capable of producing flight by “anti-electromagnetic field”.
Five copies found in OCLC as of February 2023.
[1]-9-[22] pp, staple bound folio pamphlet with printed card wraps. Edge wear with small tear to front wrap bottom edge. Reading creases with some sunning to spine. Top fore corner bumped. Pages toned but clean. Illustrated with an photo plate of a Tesla bust and two purported schematic diagrams. Very good.
If you liked this book you might also enjoy this early copy Electricity At High Pressures and Frequencies, a popular guide to building Tesla coils, or this first edition of De Telluribus by Emmanuel Swedenborg
