Electrical Lectures
AC versus DC. Those were the days…
Take warning! Alternating currents are dangerous. They are fit only for powering the electric chair :) The only similarity between an AC and a DC lighting system is that they both start from the same coal pile. And thus did… Read more
Apr 13, 2016 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
The Tesla Electric Light Company in Electrical Review, August 14, 1886
Electrical Review, August 14, 1886 – A weekly journal of electric light, telephone telegraph and scientific progress This company has been organized nearly two years, and has devoted that tittle, to perfecting a complete arc-light system, which we take pleasure… Read more
Nov 14, 2015 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Hey Tesla, get married, be happy and sleep o’nights! – AMERICAN ELECTRICIAN, July 1, 1896
This articles appeared at AMERICAN ELECTRICIAN on July 1, 1896 by journalist Edward J. Wessels. Our sprightly contemporary, the Electrical Journal, takes issue with Mr. Nikola Tesla as to the undesirability of marriage for inventors, and after disproving his statement that few great… Read more
Aug 24, 2013 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Tesla’s Big Tower To Be Sold For Debt, BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES, June 12, 1907
This article was originally posted in The Brooklyn Daily Times on June 12, 1907. The tower of Wonders at Wardercliffe, where Nikola Tesla, the inventor, preserved SUCH MYSTERY and where it was whispered scientific experiments were to be carried on greater… Read more
Aug 17, 2013 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
What happened to forgotten papers of Nikola Tesla?
After Nikola Tesla died, there was a scramble by the United States government to find all of his papers, notes and research before other foreign powers could find them. Tesla’s nephew, Sava Kosanovic, reported that before the OAP had arrived,… Read more
Apr 15, 2013 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Did Tesla Discover the Secrets of Antigravity?
Nikola Tesla has been credited for the creation of much of the technology that we take for granted today. Without the genius of Tesla we would not have: Radio, Television, AC electricity, Tesla coil, Flourescent lighting, Neon lighting, Radio control… Read more
Feb 06, 2013 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Nikola Tesla – Everything is the Light
Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with certain journalist John Smith, when Tesla said “Everything is the Light“. In one of its rays is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in that great light source,… Read more
Sep 12, 2012 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Too bad Tesla didn’t finish it before he died – Wireless Power Transmission (WPT)
The wireless power transmission (WPT) refers to the efficient transmission of electric power from one point to without use of wire or any other substance. This technology can be used where conventional wires are unaffordable, inconvenient, expensive, hazardous, unwanted or… Read more
Jul 04, 2012 | By Bipul Raman
Electric Motor
Induction machines – historical touch
Faraday discovered the electromagnetic induction law around 1831 and Maxwell formulated the laws of electricity (or Maxwell’s equations) around 1860. The knowledge was ripe for the invention of the induction machine which has two fathers: Galileo Ferraris (1885) and Nicola… Read more
Mar 15, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Tesla’s death, New York Times 1943
Tesla died alone in the hotel New Yorker of heart failure, some time between the evening of January 5 and the morning of January 8, 1943. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, Tesla was essentially destitute and died with significant… Read more
Mar 11, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
