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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...
...Lamme is dead. How many of our 112,000,000 know his name? He was one of the four greatest electricians in the country. Edison, Tesla, and Steinmetz were the other three. Lamme and Steinmetz are gone...
...Hamill, British engineer, said to represent the German scientist who invented this last-named device, is in America, trying to sell the method to the U. S. Air Service. The rays operate by disabling the magneto of an engine. The first step toward this process was discovered by Nikola Tesla, 30 years ago, and most of the current schemes are based on his principle...
...built huge electric coils which scattered rays and short-circuited nearby electric apparatus. Inventors are trying to "step up" the Tesla coil for long-distance work...