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...
At the first outset this investigation was taken up with the view of studying the effects of rapidly changing electrostatic and electromagnetic stresses. It was thought, from theoretical...
In operating an induction coil with these rapidly alternating currents, it is astonishing to note, for the first time, the great importance of the relation of capacity, self-induction, and frequency...
English Mechanic and World of Science - January 3rd, 1890
Since Mr. Nikola Tesla's first work in alternating current motors was published, he has been busily engaged in working out other types, one of which is described below. In Mr. Tesla's motors, it will...