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Mayor La Guardia and Louis Adamic, author, will take part today in a memorial program to be broadcast from WNYC, the municipal radio station, in honor of Nikola Tesla, scientist and electrical wizard...

World War needs and a national habit clash head on. It's a matter of sugar and ships, tension and nerves. By John Stanton The average American likes to chew gum. In fact, if he wants to remain average...

Radio-Controlled Bomb Is Unlikely to Help Germans In the speech which he made last week before the House of Commons, Prime Minister Churchill referred to an "aerial bomb which the enemy has begun to...

Like all the "secret weapons" of which we have heard since the outbreak of war, the radio-controlled bomber of the Germans turns out to be no secret at all. It is nothing but an enlargement of the...

By WILLIAM L. LAURENCE The transmission of substantial quantities of electric power through the atmosphere without the use of wires has been the dream of scientists for more than half a century. One...

Until he walked by an open window of the St. Regis Hotel 51 years ago, John Noosel had planned to study for the priesthood. One look in the window, though, and he became devoted to a career at the...

Tesla: Man Out of Time By Margaret Cheney . Prentice-Hall. 320 pages, illustrated. $16.95. It is difficult to think of a scientist-inventor of the past century more fascinating and enigmatic than...

A name that should be held in esteem with Marconi and Edison. By RAMIN P. JALESHGARI Contrary to popular belief, Gugliemo Marconi is not responsible for radio as we know it. And Thomas Alva Edison was...

Referee in Boldt Proceedings to Recommend This Today. RIVERHEAD, L. I., April 16. — Rowland Miles, referee, will submit to the County Clerk here tomorrow his report of the proceedings brought by...

Tesla Says Wireless Waves Pass Through the Earth, Not the Air. The forthcoming issue of The Electrical Experimenter will contain an article by Nikola Tesla, Inventor, in which he takes issue with the...