February 04, 2026
Tesla Patents: Verified Core Corpus (1888–1928)
A verified list of Nikola Tesla’s key U.S. patents with direct links to primary PDF scans and provenance notes.
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Why this list exists
The archive holds a growing list of Tesla patents, but this post only includes items with confirmed primary PDF scans and logged provenance. This keeps the public list verifiable and auditable.
Verified core patents (with primary scans)
- US381968 (1888) — Electro Magnetic Motor
- US390413 (1888) — System of Electrical Distribution
- US447921 (1891) — Alternating Electric Current Generator
- US454622 (1891) — System of Electric Lighting
- US613809 (1898) — Method of and Apparatus for Controlling Moving Vessels or Vehicles
- US645576 (1900) — System of Transmission of Electrical Energy
- US649621 (1900) — Apparatus for Transmission of Electrical Energy
- US723188 (1903) — Method of Signaling
- US725605 (1903) — System of Signaling
- US787412 (1905) — Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy Through the Natural Media
- US1061142 (1913) — Fluid Propulsion
- US1655114 (1928) — Apparatus for Aerial Transportation
What’s next
A complete corpus will add issue dates, assignees, classifications, and cross‑links to related lectures and proceedings. We will only expand the list after primary documents are downloaded and logged.
Sources
- Google Patents PDF scans (USPTO):
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US381968.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US390413.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US447921.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US454622.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US613809.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US645576.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US649621.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US723188.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US725605.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US787412.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US1061142.pdf
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US1655114.pdf