Magazine - Page 90

The Tesla lecture was a notable feature of the convention. At first it had been proposed to deliver the lecture in a small hall, but the demand for tickets was so enormous that it was decided, as a...

In The Electrical Engineer of January 25, 1893, I note an article by Mr. A. A. C. Swinton, referring to my experiments with high frequency currents. Mr. Swinton uses in these experiments the method of...

Prof. Ewing, whose tests of the Parsons steam turbine were published in our last issue , recently designed a high frequency alternator adapted to be driven by this high speed turbine. The complete...

I have been much interested in the account of novel phenomena given under the title " Some Experiments on the Electric Discharge in Vacuum Tubes ," by Prof. J. J. Thomson, and published in your issue...

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday...

Last year Mr. James Swinburne brought forward the theory that an open iron circuit could be made more efficient than any form of closed iron circuit transformer. The loss in a transformer, he argues...

With reference to the recent discoveries by Dr. Ferrari and Nikola Tesla in the direction of alternate current motors, the question of prior invention is cropping up already. We learn on good...

This article contains excerpts from the lecture, " A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers ," which are intentionally not duplicated here.