Contents 2
Contents 2
Electrotherapy
…………………………………………………………………….………165
Tesla
Says Man May Yet Live for Centuries (1897) …………………………...……………166
High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic
and Other Purposes (1898) ….….………167
Marvellous
Recoveries ..…………………………………………………....……………….171
Mechanical
Therapy ……………………………………………………....…...…….……...174
On Current Interrupters (1899) …..…….…………………………………..….…..……..177
Dawn
of Remote Control and Robotics …...……………….………………...…..………….183
Plans to Dispense with Artillery
of the Present Type (1898)
…..…………………….….…….188
Colorado
Springs the Home of Thunderbolts …...………..………………….……..…….189
Artifical
Ball Ligtnings ……..…………………………………………………...……...…….199
Signals
from Mars………………….……...………………………………......……...…......203
The Supreme
Experiment …...………………………………………………….……...…….204
The Problem of Increasing
Human Energy (1900) …………………………..….…..…...210
The
Onward Movement of Man - The Energy of the Movement
- The Three Ways
of Increasing Human Energy ....……………………...…………...……210
The First Problem: How to Increase the Human Mass
- The Burning of Atmospheric Nitrogen
……………..……...…………………………….214
The Second Problem: How to Reduce the Force Retarding the
Human Mass
- The Art of Telautomatics
………………………………………………...……………..220
The Third Problem: How to Increase the Force Accelerating
the Human Mass
- The Harnessing of the Sun's Energy
………………….…………….…...........................230
The Source of Human Energy
- The Three
Ways of Drawing Energy from the Sun ………………………………….…...231
Great Possibilities Offered by Iron for Increasing Human Performance
- Enormous Waste
in Iron Manufacture ……………………………………..…………....233
Economical Production of Iron by a New Process
……………………………..…………….234
The Coming Age of Aluminium - Doom of the Copper Industry
- The Great
Civilizing Potency of the New Metal …………………………………………236
Efforts Toward Obtaining More Energy from Coal
- The Electric
Transmission - The Gas-Engine - The Cold-Coal Battery …………………..239
Energy from the Medium - The Windmill and the Solar Engine
- Motive Power
from Terrestrial Heat - Electricity from Natural Sources ……………..…..242
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 …………………….………...……………..246
First Efforts to Produce the Self-Acting Engine - The
Mechanical Oscillator
- Work of Dewar
and Linde - Liquid Air …………………………..………...…………..249
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 ……………………………….…….252
"Wireless" Telegraphy - The Secret of Tuning -
Errors in the Hertzian Investigations
- A Receiver of
Wonderful Sensitiveness …………………..……....……………………..255
Development of a New Principle - The Electrical Oscillator
- Production of
Immense Electrical Movements - The Earth Responds to Man
- Interplanetary
Communication Now Probable …...…...…………….……….…………..258
Transmission of Electrical Energy to Any Distance Without
Wires - Now Practicable
- The Best Means
of Increasing the Force Accelerating the Human Mass ………….……...261