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Tesla is best known (by those who know of him at all) as the genius who conceived, invented, designed and put into operation our alternating current electrical system, without which much of the...

Recreating the past to solve future needs. Robert K. Golka has duplicated apparatus designed in 1899 by Nikola Tesla, with the hopes of making nuclear fusion a feasible source of energy. In the summer...

Nikola Tesla’s genius gave us a world of power and light. For many years the old man was a familiar sight on the steps of the New York Public Library. Tali, gaunt, with silver hair and handsome...

Science celebrates 100th anniversary of, Mr. Tesla, who made work easier. The eyes of this man — Nikola Tesla (left) — saw the world of the covered wagon, into which he was born, turn into today’s...

Without his forgotten genius a darkened world would crawl at a snail’s pace. The average home would be without electricity today had not a tall, thin, young Yugoslavian landed in N.Y.C. seventy-five...

Contemporary with Edison was another inventor, not so well known, but of the two the more spectacular. This was Nikola Tesla whose life and works have been enthrallingly described by John J. O’Neill...

In mid-January, 1900, Nikola Tesla returned to New York City after spending eight months and $100,000 building an electrical research experimental station at Colorado Springs. There, in the shadow of...

(The following is a summary of some of the major achievements of Nikola Tesla, as written by K. M. Swezey, friend and confidant of Tesla.) ELECTRIC POWER In the early 1890s, Tesla discovered the...

The late NikoIa TesIa was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison’s, Tesla’s admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical...

Among the oldest references to the mariner’s compass is a passage in a poem by a little known French writer, Guyot de Provins, who wrote early in the thirteenth century. I first came upon this...