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Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight, July 9-10th, 1856, in Smiljan, Jugoslavia. His father was a distinguished clergyman, and his mother, Georgina Mandic, came from a long line of...

Almost any evening last fall a tall, spare man, whose discouraged looking mustache remains a glossy black without any aid from the barber in spite of the fact that its wearer is well past his fiftieth...

Mr. F. Himstedt publishes in Wiedemann's Annalen, vol. 52, page 473, some interesting researches with Tesla currents, produced by means of rather simple apparatus. We ge below a translation of an...

Radiography leads all discoveries of modern times in the intelligent and spontaneous attention it has received from scientists and experimenters all over the civilized world. The announcement of...

This article is a reprint from Electrical World of September 1, 1894 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

BY H. M. MARTIN AND W. H. PALMER, JR. All who visited the room in the Electricity Building at the World's Fair in which Mr. Tesla's high frequency apparatus was exhibited must have brought away with...

This article is a reprint from Electrical Engineer of January 10, 1894 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

While Mr. Tesla has until the last year or two confined himself to purely electrical work, his most recent labors have been devoted to the solution of a mechanical problem intimately connected with...

We print elsewhere in this issue an important communication from Mr. L. B. Stillwell, on behalf of the Westinghouse Co., which sheds a strong side light on the information embodied in Prof. Forbes'...

There have been, so far as we remember, only three attempts to apply simple reciprocating motion, instead of rotary movement round an axis, to the armature of a dynamo. The first of these was the...