Literary Digest

Lord Kelvin, better known as Sir William Thomson, for he was sixty-eight years old and had many years of scientific eminence behind him when he was raised to the English peerage in 1892, arrived in...

Among all scientific men of recognized authority Nikola Tesla has stood practically alone in his views of the constitution of the Röntgen rays, in that he has been inclined to regard them not as...

A machine based on a new principle, for use wherever a fluid is used as a vehicle of energy, has been invented by Nikola Tesla. Apparently it is capable of a wide variety of applications, from cases...

Whatever the attitude of the incredulous on the subject of dreams, it can not be denied that one man's dreams have developed a habit of coming true. That man is Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the...

The discoveries and inventions of Nikola Tesla have of late been noticeable more for their ingenuity than for their practicality. Whether the latest belongs to this category or not, it is not our...

This article is an excerpt from the Scientific American of October 14, 1893 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

Nikola Tesla, at seventy-seven the dean of American inventors, expects to live to be 140 by paying scientific attention to his diet. With a hundred triumphs of electrical engineering already behind...

It is suggested by Nikola Tesla that in the event of war a hostile navy could be swamped by a huge tidal wave created by the explosion at sea of a large quantity of nitroglycerin. Says a writer in The...

A New York daily - The Sun - complains that other papers utter "flippant remarks of disparagement" regarding Mr. Nikola Tesla's recent inventions. In commenting on this, The Electrical World and...

It is claimed by Nikola Tesla, if we are to believe interviews published in the daily papers, that while he was experimenting recently with long-distance space-signaling, his instruments persistently...