Contents 2
Contents 2
Electrotherapy
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Tesla
Says Man May Yet Live for Centuries (1897)
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High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic
and Other Purposes (1898)
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Marvellous
Recoveries ..
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Mechanical
Therapy
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On Current Interrupters (1899)
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Dawn
of Remote Control and Robotics
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Plans to Dispense with Artillery
of the Present Type (1898)
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Colorado
Springs the Home of Thunderbolts
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Artifical
Ball Ligtnings
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Signals
from Mars
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The Supreme
Experiment
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The Problem of Increasing
Human Energy (1900)
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The
Onward Movement of Man - The Energy of the Movement
- The Three Ways
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The First Problem: How to Increase the Human Mass
- The Burning of Atmospheric Nitrogen
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The Second Problem: How to Reduce the Force Retarding the
Human Mass
- The Art of Telautomatics
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The Third Problem: How to Increase the Force Accelerating
the Human Mass
- The Harnessing of the Sun's Energy
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The Source of Human Energy
- The Three
Ways of Drawing Energy from the Sun
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Great Possibilities Offered by Iron for Increasing Human Performance
- Enormous Waste
in Iron Manufacture
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Economical Production of Iron by a New Process
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The Coming Age of Aluminium - Doom of the Copper Industry
- The Great
Civilizing Potency of the New Metal
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Efforts Toward Obtaining More Energy from Coal
- The Electric
Transmission - The Gas-Engine - The Cold-Coal Battery
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Energy from the Medium - The Windmill and the Solar Engine
- Motive Power
from Terrestrial Heat - Electricity from Natural Sources
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A Departure from Known Methods - Possibility of a "Self-Acting"
Engine or Machine,
Inanimate, Yet
Capable, Like a Living Being, of Deriving Energy from the Medium
- The Ideal Way
of Obtaining Motive Power
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First Efforts to Produce the Self-Acting Engine - The
Mechanical Oscillator
- Work of Dewar
and Linde - Liquid Air
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Discovery of Unexpected Properties of the Atmosphere -
Strange Experiments
- Transmission of Electrical Energy Through One
Wire Without Return
- Transmission
Through the Earth Without Any Wire
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"Wireless" Telegraphy - The Secret of Tuning -
Errors in the Hertzian Investigations
- A Receiver of
Wonderful Sensitiveness
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Development of a New Principle - The Electrical Oscillator
- Production of
Immense Electrical Movements - The Earth Responds to Man
- Interplanetary
Communication Now Probable
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Transmission of Electrical Energy to Any Distance Without
Wires - Now Practicable
- The Best Means
of Increasing the Force Accelerating the Human Mass
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