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The oils generally used for such are those of high insulating power, such as heavy petroleum (fluid vaseline) and boiled linseed oil. Resin oil is also excellent. The reason for boiling linseed oil is...

The subjoined figure will, I hope, do away with the necessity for a very verbose description:— Procure a glass tube, 2in diameter and 6in. in length. This can be bough for 5d. or 6d. — the short glass...

The New Century has already been enriched by two Tesla "discoveries," one of which he announces as his "first gift to the New Century." Several weeks ago he announced through the newspapers that...

It is announced that a lecture by Mr. Nikola Tesla will be given before the National Electric Light Association this month. The lecture will be illustrated by numerous experiments, and is being looked...

By C. F. SCOTT. An exhibition of power transmission at the World's Fair which is of exceptional interest, is the Tesla polyphase system which constitutes a part of the exhibit of the Westinghouse...

BY LUDWIG GUTMANN. In the last few years a great deal of attention has been given to the rotary magnetic field, and a review of the principal workers and their devices may be of special interest. In...

It is now nearly a year since Mr. Nikola Tesla, after his brilliant demonstrations here, scored such decided triumphs in the lectures which he delivered abroad at the invitation of various scientific...

The current year, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. reports, has been the most successful in its history, not only on account of the fact that it leaves the company in a most prosperous...

Astronomers do not seem to take kindly to Mr. Tesla's hypothesis that the inhabitants of Mars may be transmitting electrical signals to Earth. Edward S. Holden, formerly director of Lick Observatory...

This article is a reprint from the Electrical Engineer of February 14, 1894 and is intentionally not duplicated here.