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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...
...Douglass of the University of Arizona, who explains away most of the canals by giving them a psychological origin in the sensory apparatus of the observer. Professor E. S. Morse writes interestingly of "What the Martians Might Say of Us," reversing in imagination the direction of the telescope. Mr. Nikola Tesla is thoroughly characteristic in the firmness of his belief that we shall soon be signalling to Mars by electricity...