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A Famous Inventor, Picturing Life 100 Years from Now, Reveals an Astounding Scientific Venture Which He Believes Will Change the Course of History Editor’s Note: Nikola Tesla, now in his seventy...

“America Enters War!” “United Stated Joins Allies!” “Congress Declares War!” The newsboys were screaming the headlines through the rainy April night. Men and women stood on corners, talking, talking...

Four or five times a year some inventor announces that he has produced a secret “death-ray” which will kill whole armies at a distance, provide an invisible wall of force to protect a city or country...

He has produced nothing tangible for a long time, but he still remains one of the foremost living inventors of electrical apparatus. His day comes once a year. On his birthday Manhattan newshawks seek...

Tesla’s World of Tomorrow “We are on the threshold of a gigantic revolution, based on the commercialization of the wireless transmission of power. “Motion pictures will be flashed across limitless...

Editor, Scientific American: Engineers attach no importance whatever to static electricity generated by belt friction or otherwise. They are apt to dismiss it with the thought that the energy is...

Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight, July 9-10th, 1856, in Smiljan, Jugoslavia. His father was a distinguished clergyman, and his mother, Georgina Mandic, came from a long line of...

Every year whirling tornadoes cause great damage in the United States; and this disaster, like earthquakes, has hitherto been accepted as unavoidable. But the great scientist and inventor, Nikola...

Near Shoreham, on Long Island, stands a great lattice-work tower nearly two hundred feet high, with a copper mushroom for a top. This is Nikola Tesla’s great electric tower, whose purposes have never...

In this instructive article, the great scientist and inventor who revolutionized industry and communication with his alternating current motors and distributing system, and opened the way for radio...