Engineering Magazine

From a recent issue of the Scientific American it appears that Mr. Nikola Tesla has revived a method of steam-turbine construction which recalls one tried here some nine or ten years ago. The idea was...

Wednesday evening saw another of those successful meetings for which the Royal Institution is famed. This time, however, the audience were not able to congratulate themselves that they were the first...

In our issue of November 10, 1911, we gave a short account of the Tesla turbine, and showed that even under ideal conditions the hydraulic efficiency of a turbine of this kind cannot possibly exceed...

The company which controls the patents granted to Mr. Nikola Tesla evidently is planning to make it warm for infringers. In a circular recently sent out to persons and corporations deemed to need the...

Of Tycho Brahe's famous observatory at Uraniburg remain to-day but a mound of earth and a couple of holes. The same inventory would aptly apply to all that is left of the upper floor where Nikola...

An interesting example of electric-power transmission is that of the Gold King stamp-mill near Telluride, Col. A Pelton wheel, receiving water through a two-foot steel pipe under 320 feet head, drives...

It is not often that it is in good taste to estimate the character of a man while he is living, or safe to weigh his works or to estimate their proper place in any science while it is still in an...

The first of the two annual conversaziones given by the Royal Society, that is the one from which ladies are excluded, was held last Wednesday evening in Burlington House, and was attended by some...