Word: nikola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of the present Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. George Westinghouse staked his fortune upon the development of alternating current equipment, and won. Gradually the inventions of the other brilliant inventors were acquired. Stanley worked out apparatus for handling alternating current. Oliver B. Shellenberger produced the first induction metre. Nikola Tesla sold out to Westinghouse his alternating current motor. In any history of electrical development, the work done by the Westinghouse Co. must be given a prominent place...
...Nikola Tesla, Professor Bergen Davis, Columbia physicist, and other American scientists have been working on similar projects, and believe Grindell-Matthews' method thoroughly feasible. Practical aviators are inclined to scoff at the idea, but a number of such devices have been developed with partial success. The Britisher's invention will be offered to the British Government first, but, if not accepted, then to other nations. The French and German experimenters have not yet reached the efficiency of the Englishman's machine. It can also be used against infantry, either to kill or disable...
...Nikola Tesla, Austrian immigrant who became an electrical magician, inventor of alternating current motor, high-frequency generator, and various devices and systems of generation, transmission, wireless...
Alternating current was devised to increase the distance to which electrical power could be conveyed, direct current being transmissible only a few miles. Nikola Tesla invented motors to operate on alternating current 35 years ago, but until now there has always been a large fraction of energy wasted in proportion to the " working current." The Fynn-Weichsel motor utilizes the entire current...