… and suggestive experiments on the electric discharge in vacuum tubes, shown by Prof. J. J. Thomson on the … occasion of the visit of the Physical Society to Cambridge, in May, have excited considerable attention, and the …
… I have been much interested in the account of novel phenomena given under the title “ …
… on Long Island have heard of Nikola Tesla, the world-shaking electrical genius whose invention of polyphase alternating current made him, more …
… Among the oldest references to the mariner’s compass is a passage in a poem by a little known French writer, Guyot de Provins, who wrote early in the thirteenth century. I first came …
… years old tomorrow, looked back yesterday over a lifetime in which he has been variously called a madman and a wizard of electricity and told of his plans for the tapping of a new source of energy so vast and so revolutionary …
