Word: tesla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
These statements are very interesting; we should like to believe them, but such things have been heard before. Tesla once claimed he had invented a steam turbine one foot square that would develop one hundred and fifty horse power. An Italian gentleman residing in Boston announced that he had invented a perpetual motion machine, but a committee of government physicists showed him his error...