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Nikola Tesla, the father of today’s AC electrical system and other key inventions, often failed to bring his visionary ideas to real-world fruition When members of the Chicago Commercial Club arrived...

2006 MARKS THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF BRILLIANT INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA. MARK PILKINGTON EXPLORES THE ENIGMA OF THE MAN WHO LIT UP THE WORLD. MAIN ILLUSTRATION BY LES EDWARDS. DURING HIS...

Nikola Tesla utilized his extensive scientific background and creative imagination to invent or lay the ground work for a variety of today’s present technologies. His work is credited as the...

Many researchers have noticed that Tesla’s Patent No. 1,119,732 1 has a huge donut type antenna at the top of the tower. When Nikola built his Wardenclyffe wireless tower on Long Island, New York, the...

Historical Background Nikola Tesla built one of his greatest dreams on Long Island. When he began in 1900, much of the island was still wilderness mixed with a few farms, heavily forested with some...

The progress and development of man essentially depends on ingenuity. The most important product of the creative mind is an invention. Its final goal is an overall mastering of the mind over the...

Get Your History Correct and Give Credit Where Credit is Due Okay, I am probably as guilty as you in believing that Marconi actually invented radio. But he did not and it has taken decades – actually...

According to Joseph Kinney, the chief engineer and unofficial archivist of the New Yorker Hotel (an ancillary enterprise not of this magazine but of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church)...

Inventor Nikola Tesla didn’t get much glory when he was alive, but to hipsters now, he’s a real turn-on. There’s a scene in the film “Coffee and Cigarettes” where Jack and Meg White, of the band the...

NEW YORK — A host of dignitaries, clergy, and educators gathered on the evening of July 10 to dedicate a plaque honoring Nikola Tesla. The ceremony was held outside the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla...