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New Advances in the Field of Aeronautics Relate to Making Flying Safer and Toward the Development of Vertically Rising Machines. The world is looking forward to new developments in aircraft, and...

TO: Reader FROM: Editor The first Tuesday of every month, rain or shine, a chap turns up in the offices of Popular Science with a manuscript and some photographs in one hand and a can of salted...

Sirs: Your account of Nikola Tesla on his 75th birthday [ TIME , July 20 ] was one of the finest things I’ve ever seen in your magazine. It is all too seldom that Dr. Tesla gets adequate publicity. ....

"Long live the amateur, long live wireless!" shouted the opening article of a new publication, " The Electrical Experimenter ," which had long been pondered but finally was born with the issue of May...

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...

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...