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...Bulgarian liberals doubted that the more important pro-fascist prisoners should be punished. What disturbed them was the fact that three leading Bulgarian democrats and antiFascists were among the defendants. The three: Nikola Mushanoff, Athanase Buroff, Dimitri Gitscheff...
...late Nikola Tesla was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison's, Tesla's admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical discoverers of modern times. Last week one admirer, who according to the inventor himself understood him "better than any man alive," published the first Tesla biography-Prodigal Genius (Ives Washburn; $3.75). The author: John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
June Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...
...genial, ruddy Hugo's numerous publications today hold many important positions in the U.S. radio industry. They fondly call Gernsback "the old buzzard." At 59, Hugo presides over a shabby Manhattan office where he has a death mask of his good friend, the late, great, grandly eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.* Hugo Gernsback has never made much money out of his astounding ideas...
...Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that...