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A scientific breakthrough affecting all of us may be imminent - but the neighbors don’t approve. Long fascinated by the career of inventor Nikola Tesla, Jeffery Collette of Longmont, Colo., built a...

In the spring of 1983 I was browsing through the Allegheny College Library and found a book titled Prodigal Genius, The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O’Neill (1944). I had known about Tesla and his...

Nikola Tesla was probably the strangest man America ever knew. Undoubtedly, he stands among the great men of our time. In the minds of many, he is one of the greatest of all time. Certainly, he ranks...

Nikola Tesla was talking about his student days at Prague. “I remember well at Prague,” he said, “an old professor of great originality and acumen. This professor insisted on the value of a free use...

Nikola Tesla, 1856 - 1943 This is a story about a man who enjoyed few things in life more whole-heartedly than to pump thousands of volts of electric current through his body , with sizzling arcs of...

A Woman had been and Remained a Mystery in the Life of Our Great Inventor No women, with the exception of his mother and his sisters, had a part in the life of Nikola Tesla. He idolized his mother and...

A Prophet with Honor - Electricity's Great Radical “Were we to eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric trains and...

Early in Nikola Tesla’s Researches - In Fact as Far Back as 1892 - He Discovered a Most Peculiar and Wonderful Vacuum Bulb Phenomena. The Effect was That, Under Certain Critical Conditions, This Bulb...

Note: This is a reprint of a New York Sun article from April 24th, 1892 and is intentionally not duplicated here.

At the meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Mr. Tesla employed a machine having 400 poles, which, when run at full speed, enabled him to obtain 20,000 alternations per second. He...