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Years Ago Man Endeavored to Make Practical Use of the Energy Contained in the Sun's Rays — Even Tesla, the Electrical Wizard, Has Patented a Sun Motor, While the Shuman-Boy's Engine and Sun Boiler Has...

Although Prof. Ayrton in his presidential address has raised many points suitable for discussion, and although many questions of a practical character arise out of the meetings of the City and South...

In the early forms of alternating motor brought out by Mr. Tesla the construction embodied a series of coils traversed by currents differing a quarter phase from one another. This has in some forms...

In the portrait gallery presented in this issue of the Review will be seen the faces of three men whose names are imperishable in the records of electrical invention. These names are Edison, Thomson...

As Mr. C. E. L. Brown, in communications to the Electrical World and other journals, seems determined to insist that I have neglected the work of Mr. Tesla on rotary current, I wish here to state that...

Our contemporary the American Electrician sums up the points at issue between Mr. Nikola Tesla and another American journal in the following concise terms: "The truth plainly stated is, that for...

The latter half of the present century is to science what the Augustan age of Rome or the Elizabethan age of England was to literature. In our time the Muses have been superseded by the goddess of...

BY A. FREDERICK COLLINS. The various manifestations of high-frequency and high-potential discharges offer a fertile field of research, especially for the amateur investigator, since it is a subject...

In his experiments involving high potentials Mr. Nikola Tesla has for some time past made use of a special form of induction coil, and in a recent patent issued to him he describes several forms...

TO THE EDITOR OF The Model Engineer . DEAR SIR, — Mr. Howgrave-Graham's criticism of my article of November 17th loses much of its point by reason of the fact that he omitted to first read up my...