Electrical World

It will be seen from the patents hereinafter cited that the present subject is not new. It has occupied the attention of inventors for at least fifty years; and, indeed, if we include signaling by...

Almost a third of a century has passed since Nikola Tesla announced his discovery of the alternating-current motor, but the principles then enunciated by him will be found in force today wherever...

BY EDWIN J. HOUSTON AND A. E. KENNELLY. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, after numerous experiments on the Röntgen rays with about 150 different glass vacuum tubes, has communicated the following information to...

The Lond. "Elec.," Oct. 4, notices a paper by Mr. Overbeck in the "Wied. Ann." No. 8, which shows that the Tesla discharge invariably consists of two oscillatory discharges of different frequencies...

A fire in the building at 35 South Fifth avenue on the morning of March 13 utterly destroyed the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, which occupied the two upper floors. The destruction was most complete...

The lecture delivered by Mr. Tesla at Chicago on Friday evening of last week was a disappointment to those who expected to be entertained with brilliant experiments in luminous discharges...

The work done by Mr. Nikola Tesla, whose lecture at Columbia College is well remembered by American electricians, and who last Wednesday delivered a lecture at the rooms of the Royal Institution in...

We are pleased to note in the cable dispatch this week the cordial reception of Mr. Tesla in England, and the widespread interest attracted by his extraordinary experiments shown in the lecture at the...

For some time past, electricians working in the department of distribution by means of alternating currents have sought to obtain a motor which could be connected directly to the electric light...

Among the exhibits of the Westinghouse company at the machine works was a new 500-h. p. six-pole railway generator, shown in the cut on this page. At the time of the convention it was not yet...