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From an American paper we learn that "Tesla's Idea" for curing consumption is to pass 500,000 volts of electricity" through the body. Thus we read: — Nikola Tesla has recently invented an electrical...

In your interesting article on this subject in your issue for the 8th inst., you say: "We think there can be no doubt that Marconi is the true and first inventor of the elevated electrodes on the...

This article is a reprint from the New York Sun, November 21st, 1898 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

The following intelligent summary of the present status of the problem of telegraphy is condensed from a recent editorial utterance of the Scientific American , and will be found of interest: Nikola...

This article is a reprint from the Electrical Review of June 9th, 1897 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

Nearly every telegraphic inventor has for years dreamed in his waking hours of the possibility of communicating without wires. From time to time there has appeared in the technical journals a...

In these days the layman is apt to protect himself in a cloak of blasé acquiescence from the ever-fresh demands upon his mental powers made by mechanical wonders. But the most fatigued and agnostic...

I may be considered a rule of nature that every beneficent manifestation of force may be accompanied by deleterious effects unless guarded against by suitable precautions, and the Röntgen ray is no...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ELECTRICIAN. SIR: Our attention has just been called to a paragraph in your issue of the 9th inst., on the subject of "The Polyphase Patents in Germany," in which the following...

Being asked for his views on reasons and signs of longevity, Mr. Tesla said: "A man receives a certain term of life; so many hours to pass on this earth — I mean hours when he is alive, awake; I do...