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Made with Aid of Junked Ignition Coil By KENDALL FORD Here is a high-frequency outfit capable of giving a good 3-in. spark and providing an endless number of weird and interesting experiments, yet it...

To the Editor: In the New York Sun for January 3, Mr. Nikola Tesla has an article that deserves a word. The word is one of warning to all sober-minded readers to remind them that Mr. Tesla's recently...

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Want to see just how crazy high voltage can get? This rig will do some fascinating tricks for you. Have you ever let 50,000 volts jump through you? Or seen electric flames climb a wire? Or made a...

The leading article of the June number of the Century Magazine is entitled " The Problem of increasing Human Energy ," and is written by Nikola Tesla. Mr. Tesla offers the reader some naive verbal...

Works Weird Wonders "Is there, I ask, can there be a more interesting study than that of alternating currents?" With this question, put to a group of outstanding engineers and scholars more than half...

Science celebrates 100th anniversary of, Mr. Tesla, who made work easier. The eyes of this man — Nikola Tesla (left) — saw the world of the covered wagon, into which he was born, turn into today's...