Magazine - Page 77

Nikola Tesla was talking about his student days at Prague. "I remember well at Prague," he said, "an old professor of great originality and acumen. This professor insisted on the value of a free use...

Nikola Tesla, 1856 - 1943 This is a story about a man who enjoyed few things in life more whole-heartedly than to pump thousands of volts of electric current through his body , with sizzling arcs of...

A Woman had been and Remained a Mystery in the Life of Our Great Inventor No women, with the exception of his mother and his sisters, had a part in the life of Nikola Tesla. He idolized his mother and...

"Were we to eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric trains and cars would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills...

Early in Nikola Tesla's Researches - In Fact as Far Back as 1892 - He Discovered a Most Peculiar and Wonderful Vacuum Bulb Phenomena. The Effect was That, Under Certain Critical Conditions, This Bulb...

At the meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Mr. Tesla employed a machine having 400 poles, which, when run at full speed, enabled him to obtain 20,000 alternations per second. He...

The famed inventor had a fear of germs - but a strange belief compelled him to befriend sick and parasite-laden pigeons. For almost 30 years Nikola Tesla fed the pigeons in Herald Square, Bryant Park...

Recounting the career of Nikola Tesla, whose eccentric traits were outweighed by his generosity and inventive genius The place was New York's Mulberry Street section, "Little Italy"; the time, shortly...

The flow of a sufficient amounts of the electricity in the right form through the upper regions of the atmosphere would cause the air to be luminous. The whole earth would be transformed into a giant...