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About a quarter of a century past, books of “Familiar Science” were popular in certain of our institutions of learning, together with “Chronology,” taught as a separate branch, disassociated from...

Ten years after patenting a successful method for producing alternating current, Nikola Tesla claimed the invention of an electrical generator that would not “consume any fuel.” Such a generator would...

Tesla occupies a fundamental position in the development of our Aether physics and measurement science, Aetherometry, not because he was able to solve any of the basic problems concerning the nature...

The Spark Gap: A Basic Definition A spark gap in its simplest term is nothing more than an on and off switch. There are therefore, two electrical states or modes for the operation of a spark gap...

While listening on my cosmic phone I caught words from the Olympus blown. A newcomer was shown around; That much I could guess, aided by sound. “There’s Archimedes with his lever Still busy on...

The peak of Tesla’s career came in his early 30s, when he sold his alternating-current patents to George Westinghouse for big bucks. (He later got cuffed out of part of it.) He also did pioneering...

Nikola Tesla Father of Radio July 2006 marks the 150th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth. It is likely you know the name. But what do you know about the man? Kevin Webb fills us in. More than a Coil...

A Flash of Inspiration While experimenting with a long, thin secondary coil from Tesla Coil, I suddenly connected up several things in my mind which had been separate up to that moment. After years of...

Dear Dr. Seifer: It has been suggested that the huge explosion in Tunguska was caused by Tesla’s experimentation with electromagnetic earth resonance. I personally can not see how, as the Wardenclyffe...

Introduction Tesla’s patent “Coil for Electromagnets,” #512,340 , states that the double series winding, whether as a flat spiral or conventional helix, eliminates self-induction and stores more...