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Although now largely forgotten, Nikola Tesla was either responsible for, or predicted, much of the technology we now take for granted. Here’s a look at the life and achievements of that fascinating...

Tesla has seemed to be under a cloud of late, but in the Philadelphia North American he is brought out once more, with his characteristics as a man, by Julian Hawthorne: Tesla, the papers say, has...

In these days, when the persistence and ingenuity of scientists and inventors have made possible so many alleged impossibilities and brought into the realm of reality so many things that once existed...

A new approach to existing technology that could produce radiation-free fusion power plants in the near future. For many years we have looked for a way of holding very hot gases without the use of...

Tesla is best known (by those who know of him at all) as the genius who conceived, invented, designed and put into operation our alternating current electrical system, without which much of the...

Recreating the past to solve future needs. Robert K. Golka has duplicated apparatus designed in 1899 by Nikola Tesla, with the hopes of making nuclear fusion a feasible source of energy. In the summer...

Nikola Tesla’s genius gave us a world of power and light. For many years the old man was a familiar sight on the steps of the New York Public Library. Tali, gaunt, with silver hair and handsome...

Science celebrates 100th anniversary of, Mr. Tesla, who made work easier. The eyes of this man — Nikola Tesla (left) — saw the world of the covered wagon, into which he was born, turn into today’s...

Without his forgotten genius a darkened world would crawl at a snail’s pace. The average home would be without electricity today had not a tall, thin, young Yugoslavian landed in N.Y.C. seventy-five...

Contemporary with Edison was another inventor, not so well known, but of the two the more spectacular. This was Nikola Tesla whose life and works have been enthrallingly described by John J. O’Neill...