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Decisive steps, he went to the far corner of the room where his new silently vibrating contraption. Tesla stopped in front of a large platform, equipped with some strange-looking rocker with massive...

In contrast to the renowned Serbian scientists and Tesla's contemporaries Milutin Milanković and Mihajlo Pupin, who had typical scientific careers, and whose innovative opus was contained in their...

Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC)...

High-voltage photography, also known as Kirlian photography or electro-photography, is a method of making photographic prints or visual observations of electrically conductive objects, using as a...

An excerpt from the portion of the book dedicated to Nikola Tesla: There were several distinct reasons for Tesla's coming to Colorado Springs. The climate and the altitude were decisive factors in his...

An excerpt from the chapter entitled, “Tesla's Death Ray” and the Accelerated Particle-Beam Weapon: Embedded in the army field reports and air materiel command engineering evaluations analyzing the...

History books are full of interesting stories of famous inventions, but seldom is it mentioned that most of the great inventors died poor. In my teaching, consulting, and reading, as well as in...

Nikola Tesla is best remembered as the inventor of the AC induction motor and the three-phase system of AC power generation and distribution that is universally used today. Tesla is also remembered...

Marconi and Tesla worked separately to devise wireless radio technology that would reach around the world. Author Tim O'Shei vividly tells the stories of these two very different men. Their inventions...

Known only as America's first Air Mail Pilot, there is much more to the story of Earle Lewis Ovington that can be learned today from a study of his life. Earle Ovington exemplified all that was right...