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...every TIME-reader should know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, aged 71, in July, 1930 (TIME, July 14, 1930), whereas Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. 80, was alive and alert enough last July to felicitate Nikola Tesla on the latter's 75th birthday (TIME, July 20), has not died since...
Your account of Nikola Tesla on his 75th birthday [TIME, July 20] was one of the finest things I've ever seen in your magazine. It is all too seldom that Dr. Tesla gets adequate publicity...
...Nikola Tesla, all the world's a power house. For 40 years he has been reasoning, calculating and arguing that the earth has a definite electrical resonance. All that men need do to have unlimited power at their command, and that power without the necessity of transmission wires, would be to generate electricity in tune with the earth's. The generators might be at waterfalls, coal mines, anywhere. Only possible drawbacks would be the vast expense of installation and the fact that every power house on earth would be obliged to generate the same kind of current, and anyone could...
...Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...
Birthdays. John Davison Rockefeller (92 ), George Eastman (77), Nikola Tesla...