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In the realm of electricity and physics few men have striven for such mighty achievements and attained such prominence through the working out of ideas greatly in advance of current thought as has...

When Heinrich Hertz announced the results of his famous experiments in confirmation of the Maxwellian electromagnetic theory of light, the scientific mind at once leaped to the conclusion that the...

Engineers and men of science throughout the world are awaiting with unusual interest the completion of tests of a new steam turbine designed by Nikola Tesla, which preliminary experiments indicate...

The top half of casings is removed, showing two rotors. Each rotor consists of 25 disks 3/8-inch thick by 18 inch diameter. The steam enters at the periphery, and flows in spiral paths to exhaust at...

So Confident, He Offers to Build Them for Motor Cars Considers New Power His Greatest Invention. Gas turbines of practical and efficient construction, light, flexible and in every way suitable for...

Just at this time, when all efforts towards peaceful arbitration notwithstanding, the nations are preparing to expend immense sums in the design and construction of monstrous battleships, it may be...

I read with interest an article in the Sunday World of Jan. 20 on “Tuned Lightning,” described as a mysterious new energy, which is to turn every wheel on earth, and is supposed to have been recently...

In the early part of 1900, still vividly impressed by certain observations, I had made shortly before, and feeling that the time had come to prepare the world for an experiment which will soon be...

UNIVERSAL PEACE, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from the imperceptibly slow growth of all...

(Communicated to the Electrical World and Engineer , March 5, 1904.) It is impossible to resist your courteous request extended on an occasion of such moment in the life of your journal. Your letter...