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In mid-January, 1900, Nikola Tesla returned to New York City after spending eight months and $100,000 building an electrical research experimental station at Colorado Springs. There, in the shadow of...

(The following is a summary of some of the major achievements of Nikola Tesla, as written by K. M. Swezey, friend and confidant of Tesla.) ELECTRIC POWER In the early 1890s, Tesla discovered the...

The late NikoIa TesIa was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison’s, Tesla’s admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical...

Among the oldest references to the mariner’s compass is a passage in a poem by a little known French writer, Guyot de Provins, who wrote early in the thirteenth century. I first came upon this...

A Famous Inventor, Picturing Life 100 Years from Now, Reveals an Astounding Scientific Venture Which He Believes Will Change the Course of History Editor’s Note: Nikola Tesla, now in his seventy...

“America Enters War!” “United Stated Joins Allies!” “Congress Declares War!” The newsboys were screaming the headlines through the rainy April night. Men and women stood on corners, talking, talking...

Four or five times a year some inventor announces that he has produced a secret “death-ray” which will kill whole armies at a distance, provide an invisible wall of force to protect a city or country...

He has produced nothing tangible for a long time, but he still remains one of the foremost living inventors of electrical apparatus. His day comes once a year. On his birthday Manhattan newshawks seek...

Tesla’s World of Tomorrow “We are on the threshold of a gigantic revolution, based on the commercialization of the wireless transmission of power. “Motion pictures will be flashed across limitless...

Editor, Scientific American: Engineers attach no importance whatever to static electricity generated by belt friction or otherwise. They are apt to dismiss it with the thought that the energy is...