Here’s a nostalgic video – the 1979 science fiction movie, Salvage 1.This was the pilot of a series that aired on ABC television. The premise? A junk yard owner and salvage expert, played by Andy Griffith, enlists the help of a former astronaut and a fuel expert to construct a […]
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Science fiction writer, James P. Hogan, died Monday July 12 at his home in Ireland. He was 69. More from io9.com.
From the July 1927 issue of Popular Science, the ‘latest’ thinking on “Wireless Power Transfer.” The article quotes contemporary expert opinion from such luminaries as Steinmetz, Tesla, and Marconi. As Marconi noted: “the transmission of power by electrical waves awaited only the perfection of devices for projecting the waves in […]