There have been, so far as we remember, only three attempts to apply simple reciprocating motion, instead of rotary movement round an axis, to the armature of a dynamo. The first of these was the...
New York, November 18 . A Recent Patent of Nikola Tesla. - The daily papers within the past week, by means of startling headlines, announced that Mr. Nikola Tesla would make war so horrible that no...
Referring to the alternating current apparatus reminds me of the fact that the Westinghouse Company has now entered the field of supplying electrical machines for mining purposes. You will remember...
We hear on good authority that the Helios Company, of Cologne, who are the owners in Germany of the Tesla patents, have brought actions at law for infringement against all the firms in Germany who are...
It has often been asked, Why has the transmission of power by polyphase currents made so little progress in this country, in comparison with its use on the Continent and in America? This difference...
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ELECTRICIAN. SIR: In your issue of November 18th I find a description of Prof. Ewing's high-frequency alternator, which has pleased me chiefly because it conveyed to me the...
The steam turbine combined with two dynamos on one shaft, which we illustrate, has been presented by Messrs. C. A. Parsons and Co., of Newcastle, to the Engineering Laboratory of Cambridge. Its chief...
Mr. N. Tesla has addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Electrical World of New York: "Sir: About a year ago I had the pleasure of bringing before the American Institute of Electrical...