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Nikola Tesla, at seventy-seven the dean of American inventors, expects to live to be 140 by paying scientific attention to his diet. With a hundred triumphs of electrical engineering already behind...

In an interview with a New York Journal reporter Mr. Tesla gives his views on high speed railroading. He says: "The projectors of the road to be operated by means of the alternating current evidently...

This revolving globe generates every moment enough electricity, if it could be stored in batteries, to run all the machinery of the world for the balance of time. At the North Pole this electricity...

Those who are acquainted with the History of Socrates must have read how, upon his making a discourse concerning Love, he pressed his point with so much success that all the bachelors in his audience...

Now that a little time has elapsed since the disaster which overwhelmed Nikola Tesla's laboratory, it is possible to sum up the significance of the event. Our sympathies have been with this...

An interesting example of electric-power transmission is that of the Gold King stamp-mill near Telluride, Col. A Pelton wheel, receiving water through a two-foot steel pipe under 320 feet head, drives...

Our sprightly contemporary, the Electrical Journal , takes issue with Mr. Nikola Tesla as to the undesirability of marriage for inventors, and after disproving his statement that few great inventions...

The inauguration of the Buffalo-Niagara electric transmission, brought together, as our report showed, a representative gathering of influential men and elicited a number of memorable addresses. Of...

"The criterion of ‘good design' of all electrical machines is expressed by a constant...which gives a measure of the effective utilization of...space for the transformation of energy." Gabriel Kron...

It is not often that it is in good taste to estimate the character of a man while he is living, or safe to weigh his works or to estimate their proper place in any science while it is still in an...