Tesla's Electrical Openings - Electricity's Next Age

Nikola Tesla, the sometime Hungarian pupil of the "wizard" in electrical things, Thomas Edison, had already remarkable European experience in such things and by many is accounted a greater discoverer than his temporary master. A handsome book of his discoveries is published by the Electrical Engineer company. New York, written by T. Commerford Martin, entitled "The Inventions. Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla," which aiso gives his lectures before scientific bodies in England, France and America, closing with those before the Chicago electrical congress; his exposition of polyphase currents; A description of his double phase apparatus for transmitting the power of Niagara falls; his experiments with high and frequent currents, producing light, running motors and getting power at a distance without wires or machinery, so that telegraphing is thus possible over thousands of miles; his demonstration that the strongest currents may be passed through the body without harm though lighting lamps at the same time, and other Interesting and wonderful effects connected with insulation, induction, impedence, resonance, etc. Beside the illustrations of apparatus there is a new portrait of Mr. Tesla himself.