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W. MORRIS JONES. — It is generally assumed that a Tesla coil gives the best effect (i.e., the highest secondary potential for a given primary discharge potential) when the two circuits are so adjusted...

At the present state of the art, Wireless can be sub-divided into three classes : 1st. Wireless Telegraphy or Radiotelegraphy. 2nd. Wireless 1 elephony or Radiotelephony. 3rd. Wireless transmission of...

If the recent cabled reports be correct, every American will note with great satisfaction the awarding of this year's Nobel prize in physics to Thomas A. Edison and to Nikola Tesla. When Alfred Nobel...

By THOMAS W. BENSON Recent developments tend to fulfill the old, old dream of power transmission without wires. For years men have labored in vain to transmit power without wires and thus solve a...

Nikola Tesla of New York city, who, as is well known, has done much work of an original nature in the direction of the transmission of electrical energy through space, has recently been granted a...

Response to a Toast at the Dinner in Connection with the Annual Meeting of the District Managers of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at the Duquesne Club, Pittsburg, December 3...

As is well known, Mr. Tesla has been engaged on experiments in vacuum-tube lighting for the last decade. According to the daily press, he has recently made a considerable advance in this direction...

The oils generally used for such are those of high insulating power, such as heavy petroleum (fluid vaseline) and boiled linseed oil. Resin oil is also excellent. The reason for boiling linseed oil is...

The subjoined figure will, I hope, do away with the necessity for a very verbose description:— Procure a glass tube, 2in diameter and 6in. in length. This can be bough for 5d. or 6d. — the short glass...

The New Century has already been enriched by two Tesla "discoveries," one of which he announces as his "first gift to the New Century." Several weeks ago he announced through the newspapers that...