Popular Mechanics

A few years ago Kenneth Strickfaden , a world war veteran, started experimenting with electricity in his home workshop. Today he provides many of the weird electrical effects seen in moving pictures...

In the mind of the electrical genuis it's named for, it was a practical transmitter - but our version is strictly for thrills. Spectacular fireworks include a ring of fire scribed by wire pivoting on...

One of the great "lost" engines, Tesla's long-neglected turbine is due for a revival. It's a simple modelmaking project: no pistons, so no close tolerances! And it runs on air or steam We're Haunted...

Engineers and men of science throughout the world are awaiting with unusual interest the completion of tests of a new steam turbine designed by Nikola Tesla, which preliminary experiments indicate...