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Editor's note: This article contains commentary on the original article: Some of Tesla's Experiments Simplified - Commentary 2 [33991.] — The effects narrated are well known, and are simply proofs of...

Editor's note: This article contains commentary on the original article: Some of Tesla's Experiments Simplified . [33904.] — I was rather surprised to read under the above heading that Mr. Rossi had...

Editor's note: This article contains commentary on the original article: Some of Tesla's Experiments Simplified . [33984.] — While experimenting with an induction coil some time ago; I succeeded in...

To Mr. Bottone. — This is practically a transformer, which can be used either as a "step up" or step down," according to whether you connect the primary or secondary to the terminals of your spark...

By EDWIN J. HOUSTON, Ph.D., and A. E. KENNELLY, Sc.D. The announcement of a scientific discovery has seldom produced so intense an excitement throughout the civilised world as has that made in...

I don't know enough about Tesla transformers to answer the first part of the question; but alternating current can be transformed with very slight loss, either up or down, by suitable transformers...

[90061.] — Coil: Tesla and Skiagraphs. — To MR. BOTTONE. — I don't think you will improve matters by using a Tesla in conjunction with your coil. The same winding as described would be suitable, in...

Since Mr. Nikola Tesla's first work in alternating current motors was published, he has been busily engaged in working out other types, one of which is described below. In Mr. Tesla's motors, it will...