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TO THE EDITOR OF ELECTRICAL REVIEW: This end of the century has been so replete with scientific discoveries, both electrical and otherwise, that the old motto, nil admirari , becomes revivified, and...

While the American Electro-Therapeutic Association was accorded a great honor in being the first body to receive an invitation to visit the Tesla Laboratory, and showed its appreciation by a large...

Meet Nikola Tesla - genius in a top hat, father of modern electricity, lonely eccentric. He battled Thomas Edison and won - and he wired the world for progress One summer afternoon in 1899 a tall...

by J.H. Couture 10823 New Salem Point San Diego, CA 92126 author of The Tesla Handbook Tesla coil builders have always used spark lengths to describe the output of their coils. A rough rule generally...

I have followed with interest Radio-Electronics' "Antique Radios" column, but I was disappointed with the treatment of Tesla in the installment that appeared in the March issue. Far from being among...

[ From the London Electrical Review. ] In a letter to the ELECTRICAL REVIEW, New York, Tesla describes the results of some recent experiments he has made in vacuum tube lamps, and in their application...

Readers Talk Back The excellent article "X-Wing and We make a conscious effort to provide Tilt-Rotor: Hybrid Aircraft That Get accurate prices and addresses of Up and Go" [July] brought to mind...

It looked like a joke: a 2-foot-square bedspring with a skinny, 6-foot-long pivoted slat fastened on top. But industry officials and military brass gathered nearby didn't laugh as the decades-old...

Franklin, Franklin - Volta, Volta - Faraday, Faraday - Morse, Morse - Tesla. There is a formula not algebraic but convenient, which, imagination aiding, represents the diminishing leaps that...