Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <g.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Chris,The lecture "Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency," IEE Address, London, February 1892 is posted at http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1892-02-03.htm.
Also take a look at "Electrical Oscillators," Electrical Experimenter, July 1919. The text of which is available online at http://www.tesla.hu/tesla/articles/19190700/19190700.doc. An index to the illustrations which accompany the article is posted at http://www.tesla.hu/tesla/articles/19190700/index.htm. An index to more articles, etc. is posted at http://www.tesla.hu/tesla/tesla.htm.
A related piece is "Tesla's Oscillator and other Inventions" by T.C. Martin, Century Magazine, April 1895, pp. 916-933 posted at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fcent%2Fcent0049%2F&tif=00924.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABP2287-0049-178.
And, you should also be aware of Tesla's U.S. Patent No. 593,138, Nov. 2, 1897, "Electrical Transformer," which covers Tesla coils in general. It is available at http://www.keelynet.com/tesla/00593138.pdf. See http://www.keelynet.com/tesla/ for additional Tesla patents.
Regards, Gary
Original poster: Chris Estes <estescc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Does anyone know where to find the original published paper by Tesla describing the tesla coil (if there was one)? I'm hoping to cite him in my thesis which has a section on plasma physics and a picture of my coil in operation. I think it'd be cool to have a Tesla reference. Thanks.