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Read before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 16. In the presence of the existing diversity of opinion regarding the relative merits of the alternate and continuous current systems...

Six patents, says the Electrical Review of New York, were issued last week under date of May 1st to Nickola [ sic ] Tesla, involving the various features of his very remarkable system of distribution...

Some weeks ago, quoting from a New York contemporary, we were able to direct attention to M. Nikola Tesla’s work in connection with the use of alternate currents and motors. At the late meeting of the...

Dr. Louis Duncan gives the following further note on the Tesla motor: “Since writing my last note on this motor Mr. Tesla has read an interesting description of his system before the Institute of...

An abstract of a paper read before the Physical Society. The phenomena of vacuum discharges were, Prof. Thomson said, greatly simplified when their path was wholly gaseous, the complication of the...

In The Electrical Engineer of June 10 , I have noted the description of some experiments of Prof. J. J. Thomson, on the “Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes,” and in your issue of June 24 Prof. Elihu...

As was to be expected, the lecture delivered by Mr. Tesla in which he describes the illuminating effects observed in vacuum tubes, has called forth a number of communications from other experimenters...

In The Electrical Engineer of August 12 , I find some remarks of Prof. J. J. Thomson, which appeared originally in the London Electrician and which have a bearing upon some experiments described by me...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ELECTRICIAN. Sir: In The Electrician for July 17th there is a description of some experiments made by Mr. Nikola Tesla, which are somewhat similar in character to those shown by...

The beautiful and suggestive experiments on the electric discharge in vacuum tubes, shown by Prof. J. J. Thomson on the occasion of the visit of the Physical Society to Cambridge, in May, have excited...