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If ever an inventor satisfied the romantic requirements of a Jules Verne novel it was Nikola Tesla. Communicating with Mars, plucking heat units out of the atmosphere to run engines, using the whole...

By MICHAEL MCWHINNEY * The life of a genius has long been a topic of interest to both writer and reader, and in many cases a famous man's life has been crystallized by an intelligent biography. In the...

In 1913 The Scientific American held a contest open to the world to determine what were "the ten greatest inventions of our time." Commercial importance was to be the criterion of greatness, and by...

Mr. Hammond Tells of His Experiences in Development Work. To the Editor of The New York Times: There has been some correspondence lately in your paper relative to radio control of aircraft and other...

Inventor Had Paid Lawyer With Promissory Note. RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 13. — Nikola Tesla, inventor and scientist of Manhattan, has confessed judgment in the sum of $913 in favor of Ralph J. Hawkins...

Admiral Fiske Gives Some Interesting Details of His Scheme. To the Editor of The New York Times May I ask attention to an error in your editorial "Piloting Planes by Radio"? The error lay in the...

Dr. Nikola Tesla, inventor, will be 85 years old today. However, at his room in the Hotel New Yorker he said yesterday he had decided to postpone the celebration — and the interview that traditionally...

In 1877 Sir William Siemens, who had lately been to America; in an address be fore the Iron and Steel Institute, says Clemens Herschel in Cassier's Magazine for July, thus outlined briefly his views...

Inventor, at Supplementary Inquiry, Denies Owning Anything. Testimony given by Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor, in a supplementary proceeding begun by the city to collect a judgment for $933 for...

A Review by BRANDER MATTHEWS A LIFE OF GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE. By Henry G. Prout. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1:22. 375 pp. $2.50. Every schoolboy knows" that almost exactly a century ago Sidney...