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A Tesla coil is an interesting piece of apparatus, and with its aid many wonderful experiments can be performed. The apparatus shown here is a rather small one, but will give good results with a one...

An excellent exposition of one of the problems on which investigators have been working ever since the propagation of radio waves has been known. By JOSEPH RILEY It has been the fondest dream of...

... From his seclusion in Manhattan's Governor Clinton Hotel, where he lies for hours evolving mighty schemes without pencil or notebook, famed Scientist Nikola Tesla emerged as of old for his annual...

One logical contender has not been heard from — for the very good reason that he died a few months before the public announcement of Radar. Yet he described the action and application of the...

BY LEE WALSH How Authentic Are Space Communications? "For those of you of the planet Earth who are presently dwelling in coastal areas, we would advise you to remove entirely from those areas. We...

Is this a new discovery? Or is it an effect that goes back to Tesla's days? By THOMAS E. FAIRBAIRN While a friend and I were talking over ham station W8SYK to another ham in Australia, a large flame...

The aged Slav with the thin silvery hair and hypnotic pale blue eyes was weary of the role of superman. "We are all meat machines," he told John J. O'Neill , science writer for The New York Herald...

(518) Lionel Stevens, Sidney, Australia. inquires: Q. 1. What is the principle of operation of the so-called Tesla coil? A. 1. The principle upon which the Tesla coil is based consists in introducing...

Once telegraph messengers spent all their time delivering telegrams—but that was in the days when drug stores specialized in drugs, and cigar stores in tobacco. Today, you can call upon a messenger...

By O. P. FERRELL Radio waves spanning interplanetary space are now a certainty. The dreams of science fiction writers and the predictions of Nikola Tesla are closer to reality. Positive identification...