Leland I. Anderson (1928-October 15, 2021) was a
technical writer and
electrical engineer
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
who was credited with helping renew interest in the work of Nikola Tesla.
His long-time interest in
Nikola Tesla took root in the early 1950s, and his activities since then have resulted in his recognition as one of the world's foremost Tesla historians. He founded the
Tesla Society
Tesla most commonly refers to:
* Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
* Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
* Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-d ...
and edited the Tesla Society Newsletter ''Tesliana'' for many years, beginning in the 1950s.
His extensive archive on Nikola Tesla and his work, the largest in the
United States and second only to that of the Tesla Museum in
Belgrade
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,
Yugoslavia, has been acquired by the
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania in
Pittsburgh and is now open for public access.
Mr. Anderson's Nikola Tesla Photograph Archive is being acquired by the
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe and is now available for commercial use.
Anderson was a resident of
St. Paul, Minnesota
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, when he died on October 15, 2021, at the age of 93.
References
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1928 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American engineers
American male non-fiction writers