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...inventors of electrical apparatus. His day comes once a year. On his birthday Manhattan newshawks seek him out in some hotel, listen closely to his words. Wearing an outmoded brown suit, he received the Press one day last week in a Hotel New Yorker reception room. That day Nikola Tesla...
...first thing Nikola Tesla invented was a hook for catching frogs. That was not long after he learned to talk, in the Croatian hamlet of Smiljan where he was born. He studied physics and mathematics at two universities, got into telegraph engineering, went to Budapest, to Paris, to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos...
Remote control by radio of ships, automobiles, airplanes furnished with power of their own is becoming commonplace. A vastly different thing is transmission of power by radio, an old dream of famed inventor Nikola Tesla and a favorite preoccupation of Columnist Arthur Brisbane. Westinghouse engineers who have long worked on the problem were able last summer at Chicago's Century of Progress to operate a tiny fan requiring two or three watts by shooting a beam of short radio waves toward a parabolic reflector which focused on a small antenna. Scientists doubted last week that Mr. Gregory...
Birthdays. John Davison Rockefeller, 93; Nikola Tesla, 75; Finley Peter Dunne, 65; Irving T. Bush, 63; Calvin Coolidge, 60; George Michael Cohan...
...mentioned that piece of laboratory ordinance when the Association for the Advancement of Science met in Pasadena last June. Although the scientists could see little of the machine's effect, they nonetheless gave a $1,000 prize to the ingenious young men.) Their machine consists essentially of a tesla coil under oil and a cascading cathode tube. The coil builds up an electrical potential to 3,000,000 volts. That enormous power is suddenly dumped into what is basically a series of X-ray tubes ending in a mica window...