Word: nikola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Authentic? When a premier "explodes." speaking his real mind incautiously to a journalist, his henchmen have to tidy up. Thus, after the late, great Premier Nikola Pashitch of Jugoslavia "exploded" to Correspondent Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) it was denied not only that he had spoken as quoted but that he had ever seen her in his life. Last week the Italian Foreign Office called II Duce's statements as quoted by the Daily Express "so obviously absurd as to be unworthy of an official denial...
...every TIME-reader should know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, aged 71, in July, 1930 (TIME, July 14, 1930), whereas Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. 80, was alive and alert enough last July to felicitate Nikola Tesla on the latter's 75th birthday (TIME, July 20), has not died since...
Your account of Nikola Tesla on his 75th birthday [TIME, July 20] was one of the finest things I've ever seen in your magazine. It is all too seldom that Dr. Tesla gets adequate publicity...