… of the poles under certain conditions, a principle which has been already employed by Mr. A. Wright in his alternating … to the end. Mr. Tesla has worked out some more or less complicated motors on this principle, but the curious point …
… great changes will follow in social life. Government will become a sort of officious policeman, busybody and benevolent … Into a society like the bees. What this noted scientist has found is not a form of atomic energy, which he declares … theory, the theory of radio-activity and others have been worked out and developed to an amazing degree. And yet …
… Colo. Dear Mr. Tesla: The work of the shop is on the commutator, condenser case casting, spark rod support and … oscillator. Mr. Uhlman regrets very much to report that he has not succeeded with the mica condenser, the same having been short-circuited, he thinks, in building up with mica …
… Moon’s Unification Church), three types of inquisitive visitors regularly make pilgrimages there: (1) electrical … the time of his death, Tesla was nearly destitute, having been bamboozled by, among others, Thomas Edison. He was … acumen, and a predilection toward delusion. The Tesla saga has provided fodder for an opera, a play, and several …
… and he saw himself at the Hotel de la Paix in Paris, just coming to from one of his peculiar sleeping spells. In this … and complex mathematical formulae." It appears there had been reason for his concerns about his mother's health: … invitations, honors, "and other flattering inducements" to visit and lecture. At last he accepted those from London and …
… motor). Then followed some forty patents for the polyphase system - motor, generator and distribution and … and on luminiscent sources of light. 1889 September Visited Paris and his native Lika, Smiljan and Gospić. … America). In November 1896 the power-station was definitely completed and the first transmission line (to Buffalo, 35 …
… Tesla. "It seems," he says, "that I have always been ahead of my time." ** "It will be possible to destroy … Note: Nikola Tesla, now in his seventy-eighth year, has been called the father of radio, television, power … century will give a mere “stick” in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will …
… the series, on Niagara Falls as an industrial center, which has appeared at intervals during the present year, and it will now be opportune to sum up the results which have been accomplished, and see how far they agree with the expectations …
… be sure independent pumps of small volumetric capacity have been used to create artificial waterfalls and to use the … said that not since the days of the Italian Renaissance has any really startling improvement been made in the … apparatus and with a very small volume of water. The accompanying illustration pictures the very simplest form of …