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Since an eminent scientist engaged in astronomical investigation mistook a new searchlight, with which the Navy Department was making experiments, for a comet, nothing has occurred to arouse such...

The Marconi System Uses the Atmosphere as a Conductor — Nikola Tesla at Work on a System Using the Earth. It may be said that a certain kind of electricity tends to travel like waves made by dropping...

Modern Americans Who Have Led The March of Progress. (Copyright, 1912, The Press Publishing Co.) GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, Wizard of Steam, Air and Electricity. WHEN GEORGE STEPHENSON started the first...

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY OF STIMULATING GENIUSES. Large Rewards Offered For the Coming Year Which Will Make the Fortune of the Successful Inventor — How McCormick Was Led to Invent the Reaper. It is...

A dip into the future by a scientific eye is always fascinating in its possibilities. Tesla, however, in one of the current magazines dips too far for equilibrium. We can accept many marvels. There...

Radio broadcasting from Rio has been heard in Honolulu,. 8,000 miles away. This sets a new record, although the station on Long Island has sent messages 7,000 miles. Radio is only 25 years old. The...

Tesla's New Year announcement that the inhabitants of Venus are trying to communicate with us is interesting. Venus is twice as hot as the earth and its atmosphere is very dense. Mr. Tesla, however...

Nikola Tesla announces the invention of a process by which electric wires cha be losulated with ice. It will be recalled that the Van Wyck brothers had their political wires grounded by ice. —...