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… Progress in aerial navigation is essentially dependent on the perfection of a process of producing great mechanical effort with light machinery. Viewing …

… Nature detests arrogance. The ancient Greeks told of King Salmoneus, who decided that his power equaled that of … Salmoneus’ subjects were treated to the spectacle of their king driving his chariot through the city streets, hurling …

… As the inventor of the alternating current, the world is indebted to Mr. Tesla for the use …

… Editor, Scientific American: Engineers attach no importance whatever to static electricity … are apt to dismiss it with the thought that the energy is infinitesimal. That is true. A little water pumped through …

… Thinks He Should Receive Credit for His Own Inventions To the Editor of The New York Times: I have been much surprised to read in The Times of Sunday, April 21, that Admiral H. N. Manney, …

… of the transmission of the human voice will not be confined to this planet but will be projected through the ether … vibrations strike all the other planets that swung dizzily in space! This authorized statement, of far greater importance than the amazing event which occasioned it, was unequivocally made today …

… ahead of my time." ** "It will be possible to destroy anything approaching within 200 miles. My invention will provide a wall of …

… The personality of Mr. Tesla is one of the most fascinating in the field of modern invention, and his work is such as to …

… the turn of the century On the afternoon of May 17, 1899, inventor Nikola Tesla stepped from the train at Colorado Springs obsessed with electrifying the earth. …

… a month ago, a volunteer fireman stumbled across something Tesla is believed responsible for — a brick-lined hole that some people suspect is part of a network of … a 200-foot-tall research tower. “It's my recollection that, in connection with the tower he erected on the site, that... …