Magazine Notices - The Century (Apr. 1895)

The most notable article in the Century for April is undoubtedly the account of the "oscillator" and other inventions of Nikola Tesla, in which Thomas Commerford Martin, editor of The Electrical Engineer, makes the first full and authoritative announcement of several recent electrical inventions of Mr. Tesla. The oscillator, the new machine for the production of power, combining the steam engine and the dynamo, is fully described both in its single and double forms, and a plan and picture of the machine are presented for the first time. Other experiments described in the article relate to Mr. Tesla's system of high-frequency electrical currents as applied to the production of light, and especially to the production of light by induction. The first announcement is also made of Mr. Tesla's success in disturbing and demonstrating the earth's electrical charge, which is Illustrated by pictures of the Tesla coil, and which points in the direction of telegraphy without wires.

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