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...Nikola Tesla's birthday in mid-July, the electrical term which his name has become is regenerated as a tall, meagre, eagle-headed man. Reporters hunt him out of his hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still...
Edison. Most prized award of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the Edison gold medal. Its recipients have included George Westinghouse. Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Robert Andrews Millikan. Last week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
...Inventor Nikola Tesla drew plans for a helicopter that would fly straight up from earth until safely high and then would cock over to fly like any other plane. Those plans he registered last week at the U.S. patent office, commenting that he would build no such helicopters himself but that they would work. His cocksureness arose from the fact that the multitude of his previous inventions had worked (TIME, July...
Thus Little Emperor Alexander I continued to play, last week, the game which he was taught by that great statesman Nikola Pashitch, who was the bulwark of the present dynasty until his death at the age of 80 (TIME...
Today, though the great Nikola Pashitch is dead, his family is still potent. Last week his daughter, Mile. Dara Pashitch, announced her engagement to a young Jugoslav who had previously been reported engaged to Miss Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress of a few millions. The fiance who got not dollars but a great name is comely Bojidar Puritch, recently Jugoslav Consul General at Chicago...