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George W. Damm suggests that Nikola Tesla incorporated acoustic resonant criteria in the design and modulation of his tower at Shoreham, Long Island. At first, this seems a bit farfetched, but a pause...

Half a century after his death, Tesla, a pioneer of electrical engineering and a world-class eccentric, has developed a cult following. The International Tesla Society’s annual Extraordinary Science...

Was the Tunguska Event caused by a secret test of a weapon too terrible to describe? THE BIRTH OF “DEATH RAYS” The French ship Iena blew up in 1907. Electrical experts were sought by the press for an...

Belittled for more than half a century, the mystical genius of electricity has at last found a following On an otherwise fine day in 1898, the ground in New York City’s Lower East Side suddenly began...

The question comes up from time to time. “Who’s the greatest hacker ever? “Well, there’s a lot of different opinions on this. Some say Steve Wozniak of Apple II fame. Maybe Andy Hertzfeld of the Mac...

The author’s latest experiments have provided new insight into one of physics’ biggest mysteries. Here’s a report on those rather unique experiments, and the results that they produced. Nikola Tesla’s...

Although now largely forgotten, Nikola Tesla was either responsible for, or predicted, much of the technology we now take for granted. Here’s a look at the life and achievements of that fascinating...

Tesla has seemed to be under a cloud of late, but in the Philadelphia North American he is brought out once more, with his characteristics as a man, by Julian Hawthorne: Tesla, the papers say, has...

In these days, when the persistence and ingenuity of scientists and inventors have made possible so many alleged impossibilities and brought into the realm of reality so many things that once existed...

A new approach to existing technology that could produce radiation-free fusion power plants in the near future. For many years we have looked for a way of holding very hot gases without the use of...