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The Electric Purple Snake-Oil Machine

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The result was the Tesla coil, which he envisioned being used for wireless lighting and power. patent for a “System of Electric Lighting,” which he received two months later. After more years of tinkering, Tesla perfected his resonance transformer and was granted U.S. In April 1891, he applied for a U.S. Tesla promoted the.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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described the design of lnterpress, a printing protocol: “One of the designers was in Pittsburgh, one of them was in Philadelphia, there were three of us in this area, and a couple in El Segundo [Calif.]. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Palo Alto, Calif.,

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