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It appears sometimes as though there was an opinion abroad that Americans, though practical, are not patient, scientific investigators. It is true we do not spend our time with such matters as...

[33904.] — I was rather surprised to read under the above heading that Mr. Rossi had discovered the "novelty" of a vacuum tube being lighted by a Rhumkorff coil, without actually being connected with...

On another page we give a brief description of one form of Mr. Tesla's mechanico-electric oscillator, which formed part of his exhibit in Chicago. It would be hardly possible at this moment to foresee...

To those experimenters having only a small spark coil (mine is a 1/4-inch Ford ignition coil) and wishing to produce High Frequency currents, I describe here a coil I made which proved very...

(974) R. Conover, New York, N. Y., inquires of "The Oracle": Q. 1. For data on a Tesla coil suitable for use on a 2-inch spark coil as an exciter. A. 1. The ordinary Tesla coil, especially designed to...

In the action brought by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company against the Electric Appliance Company of Chicago to restrain that company from selling or manufacturing the Gutmann...

About three years ago I had the pleasure of bringing to the attention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at its annual meeting, certain phenomena of the repulsive action between...

An extraordinary general meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers is to be held, by kind permission of the managers, at the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, on Wednesday, 3rd February...

Fed from Space, and Flames That Do Not Consume The honors in electrical discovery and invention have hitherto been pretty evenly divided among the nations, but of late America has bid fair to leave...

In our present issue we publish a communication from Nikola Tesla, giving, in an exhaustive and instructive manner, the results of his experiments with the Roentgen rays, relating chiefly to their...