Word: nikolas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan newsgatherers went last week, as they have gone annually for many a year, to interview Nikola Tesla on his birthday. This year it was his 71st birthday but Nikola Tesla said nothing that he had not said on his 61st birthday?or his 41st for that matter...
...Nikola Tesla, genius extraordinary of electricity, predicted last week as he has been predicting since 1895 or so that enormous stores of power will some day be broadcast by radio; when that is possible, that airplanes will need no fuel. They will fly indefinite lengths of time on current flashed to them from any distance...
...four years before Guglielmo Marconi took out patents in Britain-Nikola Tesla patented in the U. S. a system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...
Alexander I, harassed king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, received the resignation of Premier Nikola T. Uzunovitch last week, as the shaky coalition supporting his Cabinet collapsed amid a bedlam of local party squabbles. By His Majesty's command onetime Minister of Public Works Velja Vaounkitchivitch formed a seemingly most unstable Cabinet upon a coalition of Radicals and Democrats, parties hitherto bitterly opposed...
...Died. Nikola Pashitch, 80, in Belgrade; of apoplexy...