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...living 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...
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...