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I have followed with interest Radio-Electronics' "Antique Radios" column, but I was disappointed with the treatment of Tesla in the installment that appeared in the March issue. Far from being among...

[ From the London Electrical Review. ] In a letter to the ELECTRICAL REVIEW, New York, Tesla describes the results of some recent experiments he has made in vacuum tube lamps, and in their application...

Readers Talk Back The excellent article "X-Wing and We make a conscious effort to provide Tilt-Rotor: Hybrid Aircraft That Get accurate prices and addresses of Up and Go" [July] brought to mind...

It looked like a joke: a 2-foot-square bedspring with a skinny, 6-foot-long pivoted slat fastened on top. But industry officials and military brass gathered nearby didn't laugh as the decades-old...

Franklin, Franklin - Volta, Volta - Faraday, Faraday - Morse, Morse - Tesla. There is a formula not algebraic but convenient, which, imagination aiding, represents the diminishing leaps that...

In a recent number of the "Century Magazine" an article by Mr. Nikola Tesla was printed, in which some statements were made that drew caustic comment from our contemporary, "Marine Engineering." In...

Througout his life, inventor Nikola Tesla was convinced that he had received a message from beyond the Earth. Was he right? And this is the picture of Mars at mid century: a small planet which three...

In 1891, Colorado scored a "World's First" in engineering history. It was in late June of that year when the power plant at Ames, Colorado, became the first power station in the world to transmit...

Ask any electrical engineering student today to tell you something about. Tesla, and you are likely to get a blank stare. Or the counter-question: "Who was Tesla?" It seems preposterous that our...