Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor was an electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist-- known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity ...

Any electrical motor, from an idealized viewpoint, consists of two sets of magnets—one set stationary, one set free to move—placed in special geometric relation to one another. For most practical ...

Following his discovery in Budapest, Tesla was hired by electric power companies in Strasbourg and Paris to improve their DC generation facilities. In Germany and France, he attempted to interest ...

Editor - I read with interest the Architext column ("Inventors Edison, Westinghouse vied to electrify America," Oct. 27). However, I was disappointed that the writer, Arrol Gellner, failed to credit ...