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Nikola Tesla, the Yugoslavian electrical inventor who died in New York last week, was a philatelic familiar. His eightieth birthday in 1936 — he was born on July 10, 1856 — was commemorated with two...

By PASQUALE MARRANZINO The sun was setting and banked its last rays off the northwest brow of Pikes Peak, 75 miles away. Beyond the peak to the south, Zeus was streaking the dark sky with spectacular...

Inventor Says His Health and Mind Are Better Than Ever — Expects to Live Beyond 140. WORKING ON A NEW STEEL To Be Twice as Strong as at Present — Assails 'Pad and Pencil Scientists.' Nikola Tesla...

Inventor in Electrical Field Honored as Centenary of His Birth Approaches A memorial to Nikola Tesla, leading inventor in the field of electricity forty years before his death in 1943, was unveiled...

At 80 Tesla dreams of the generation and transmission of energy in ways that must seem fantastic to engineers who build great central stations and send electricity 300 miles. Away with these wires...

By Kenneth M. Swezey One of the greatest advances which the future may know undoubtedly lies within the realm of high frequency currents of electricity. Wireless telegraphy and telephony have already...

If ever an inventor satisfied the romantic requirements of a Jules Verne novel it was Nikola Tesla. Communicating with Mars, plucking heat units out of the atmosphere to run engines, using the whole...

By Thomas R. Bayles Radio broadcasting was visualized several years before it was actually put into successful operation, by Nikola Tesla, an inventor and electrician who experimented for some time at...

By MICHAEL MCWHINNEY * The life of a genius has long been a topic of interest to both writer and reader, and in many cases a famous man's life has been crystallized by an intelligent biography. In the...

In 1913 The Scientific American held a contest open to the world to determine what were "the ten greatest inventions of our time." Commercial importance was to be the criterion of greatness, and by...