Magazine - Page 91

The beautiful and suggestive experiments on the electric discharge in vacuum tubes, shown by Prof. J. J. Thomson on the occasion of the visit of the Physical Society to Cambridge, in May, have excited...

A communication made at the meeting of the Physical Society, held at Cambridge in the Cavendish Laboratory, on Saturday, May 9th, 1891. The phenomena of vacuum discharges were, he said, greatly...

As the inventor of the alternating current, the world is indebted to Mr. Tesla for the use of electricity carried long distances. He now discusses the probability that airplanes will rise to great...

In this remarkable and complete story of his discovery of the "True Wireless" and the principles upon which transmission and reception, even in the present day systems, are based, Dr. Nikola Tesla...

Since the introduction of the lightning rod over one hundred years ago by Benjamin Franklin, its adoption as a means of protection against destructive atmospheric discharges such as lightning bolts...

Suspecting that German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was...

Nikola Tesla, the famous electrical wizard, who was awarded the seventh Edison medal on December 13, 1916, "for meritorious achievements in his early original work in polyphase and high-frequency...

Notable Program at Annual Meeting of American Institute of Electrical Engineer — Interesting Insight into Mr. Tesla's Life and Work as Disclosed in His Address of Acceptance Nikola Tesla, inventor and...

PRESENTATION OF AWARD FOR EARLY ORIGINAL WORK AND TRIBUTES TO THE INVENTOR — NEW A. I. E. E. OFFICERS Presentation of the Edison medal to Nikola Tesla and formal report upon the newly elected officers...

The award of the Edison medal to Nikola Tesla is most appropriate, in view of the early contribution that he made to alternating-current motors. In order to recognize that contribution, one must go...