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[ Cable to the Sun, New York, April 26. ] Professor Roentgen has published several important new discoveries connected with the X rays. He has ascertained that all solid bodies can generate them under...

Nikola Tesla. — Mr. Tesla, a few days ago, announced the discovery of a method of inducing millions of etheric vibrations per second within a vacuum tube without using any direct electrical connection...

An opinion was handed down September 9th by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the first circuit in the case of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, complainant and appellant, against...

Edison and Tesla Win Nobel Prize Under date of Nov. 6, the Copenhagen correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph sends the following: "The Swedish government has decided to distribute the Nobel...

Announcement of the award of the Nobel prize in physics to Edison and Tesla will give great satisfaction to the engineering profession in our country, to which both have contributed distinguished...

Lord Kelvin, better known as Sir William Thomson, for he was sixty-eight years old and had many years of scientific eminence behind him when he was raised to the English peerage in 1892, arrived in...

In a patent issued to Mr. Nikola Tesla on January 2, entitled, "Electrical Transmission of Power, No. 311,915, originally filed May 15, 1888," is described a method of operating motors from a two-wire...

We read with regret that on the 13th ult. Mr. Nikola Tesla sustained a severe loss in the total destruction of his laboratory by fire. It is said that several instruments embodying nearly completed...

In July, experiments with this system were made at Spezzia by a Commission of the Royal Italian Fleet, assisted by the inventor. The results, of which the following is an abstract, are reported in the...

While everybody knows that Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest — perhaps the greatest — living discoverer in the field of electricity, not every one knows just what Mr. Tesla has done. It may be said...