Arizona republican., 1895-04-10

OF the Electro-Therapeutic association
enjoyed in the workshop OF Nikola Tesla,
the electrician and inventor who has
astonished the scientific world by per-
hitting 100000 volts of electricity to
pass through him without harm. The
report is written in light vein, but
with no apparent desire to overdraw
the conditions as shown. Nikola has
discovered the art of transmitting cleo.
tricity without wire, and promises to
make sunshine as soon as he discovers
how to safely care for the 100000 volts
necessary for that purpose.
During that electric evening 100000
volts we're let loose from intricate ap-
paratus, and whirled about the big and
grimy machine chop on coils fastened
to the walls. The air hummed and
throbbed with the tremendous energy.
Voices were drowned, ears were dinned
and the visitors were filled SO full of
static electricity that sparks came when
they touched knuckles, and the little
arc lamps fastened on hand circuits
held over head were illumined sim ply
by holding them parallel with the coils
about the room And then the room
was darkened, and the magician gave
his visitors taste OF what be humor-
ously calls electric fireworks. He filled
glass rods with soft and beautiful light
without bringing them into direct COLI
tact with any circuit, but simply by
filing the room so full of static force
that it gathered in the pretty crystal
zigzags and made them luminous. As
one of the learned doctors put it in
terms poetical, it was molecular bonn
bardment. and about the prettiest thing
in electrics that one could we'll imagine.
Then the professor passed round
sheaf of long glass rods about the
thickness of maccaronI, but twice as
long; and filling great ball hanging
from the ceiling with the wondrous and
mysterious force, which men are Just
beginning to learn about, and which
the wise ones say is the sunlight and
the source of all life, he soon had his
guests making fireworks, each on his
own account, for each rod was filled
with the throbbing, phosphorescent
light. and the darkened room was
turned into verita BILE fairyland. And,
the learned ladies OF the Electric
Therapeutical society, who know
more about anatomy and physiology
and the healing power of electricity
than whole library OF books, and who
can talk in four sylables without a
tremor, giggled and screamed, and
would not touch the instruments that
gave funny little shocks until they had
been gently taken in hand by the
masculine ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i just
as If they were mere school girls learn
ing the A B Cs of electricity inetead of
learned doctors and professorines.
And then the expert demonstrated
how easy it was to play with lightning.
In his own words the ease OF the feat is
shown "When | stand before an
audience and receive into my body a
charge of electricity of 100000 voltage
power do it to show how harmless this
agent can be made with proper ham
ding. am enabled to accomplish this
feat by the use of alternating currents,
and any able bodied man not unusually
sensitive to electric force can perform
the same feat if he will use the same
machine that 1 do. l have simply
learned how to put the harness on that
amount of electricity. But 1000 volts
from any other machine would kill me
as quickly as it killed Kemmler at Sing
Sing" And thus the study goes on,
and as the uses of electricity multiply,
| IFS terrors decrease