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In these days the layman is apt to protect himself in a cloak of blasé acquiescence from the ever-fresh demands upon his mental powers made by mechanical wonders. But the most fatigued and agnostic...

I may be considered a rule of nature that every beneficent manifestation of force may be accompanied by deleterious effects unless guarded against by suitable precautions, and the Röntgen ray is no...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ELECTRICIAN. SIR: Our attention has just been called to a paragraph in your issue of the 9th inst., on the subject of "The Polyphase Patents in Germany," in which the following...

Being asked for his views on reasons and signs of longevity, Mr. Tesla said: "A man receives a certain term of life; so many hours to pass on this earth — I mean hours when he is alive, awake; I do...

There can be no doubt as to the invasion of the domain of agriculture by electricity. Last week we noted the results obtained on a farm in Germany, and hardly a week goes by without its news of...

— The Century builded better than it knew when it engaged an article by T. C. Martin , editor of The Electrical Engineer , on "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," which will appear in its April...

In a brief but pregnant comment on the destruction by fire of the workshop of Nikola Tesla, the New York "Sun" remarked: "It is not in any degree an exaggeration to say that the men living at this...

Nikola Tesla was born in 1857, at Smiljan, Lika, a region bordering on Austro-Hungary. His unquestionable genius was in part inherited from his mother, who took pleasure in constructing mechanical...

Of Tycho Brahe's famous observatory at Uraniburg remain to-day but a mound of earth and a couple of holes. The same inventory would aptly apply to all that is left of the upper floor where Nikola...