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Readers Talk Back The excellent article "X-Wing and We make a conscious effort to provide Tilt-Rotor: Hybrid Aircraft That Get accurate prices and addresses of Up and Go" [July] brought to mind...

It looked like a joke: a 2-foot-square bedspring with a skinny, 6-foot-long pivoted slat fastened on top. But industry officials and military brass gathered nearby didn't laugh as the decades-old...

Franklin, Franklin - Volta, Volta - Faraday, Faraday - Morse, Morse - Tesla. There is a formula not algebraic but convenient, which, imagination aiding, represents the diminishing leaps that...

In a recent number of the "Century Magazine" an article by Mr. Nikola Tesla was printed, in which some statements were made that drew caustic comment from our contemporary, "Marine Engineering." In...

Througout his life, inventor Nikola Tesla was convinced that he had received a message from beyond the Earth. Was he right? And this is the picture of Mars at mid century: a small planet which three...

In 1891, Colorado scored a "World's First" in engineering history. It was in late June of that year when the power plant at Ames, Colorado, became the first power station in the world to transmit...

Ask any electrical engineering student today to tell you something about. Tesla, and you are likely to get a blank stare. Or the counter-question: "Who was Tesla?" It seems preposterous that our...

Tesla's ideas changed the face of the world and even in his dotage manufacturers were uneasy lest machines worth billions should be made obsolete by a final inspiration of the versatile but dying...

Nikola Tesla was a great inventor and also a prophet without honor Counter-espionage wheels started turning early on the morning of January 8, 1943. Anxious FBI agents slipped into a room in the Hotel...