Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-03-28
TELEGRAPHY WITHOUT WI
Using the Earth as the COndu
Electric Vibration.

The promise of coming ele
achievement more marvellous til:
that has preceded it is in the
Electricians who have been adm
to witness recent experiments in
laboratory of Nikola Tesla have
away fully impressed with the b,
that the new wizard has within II
grasp the solution of the problem
transmitting intelligence .nd pow>
without the use of wires. Tesla hi
loug maintained that this co,ld b.
done. He declared in public addrcs
two years ago that his convict Oh ha
grown SO strong on that point that Ii
no longer looked on this plan Of ell
ergy or intelligence transmission as
mere theoretical possibility, but lis a
serious problem in electrical enSi.lre.
ing which must be carried out some
day. Ee has been working at tl>
problem ever since, and he invention.
Of his "oscillator t" &c an
epoci,-illaking machine III the pr )d'lc
ton Of power-has been merely IN IN
cidcnt in his patient, scie.4titic search
for the period of the electrical cnarg
of the earth.
1t is on the existence of this charge
that the possibility depends Of ctl-
vcyDg ii!tellg nee wi hout tnL aid OF
Wires a;ii without respect 70 tL" tls-
tancn. EIr. Tesla demonstrated some
ten years ago that the earth could be
used as Il conductor If electric yibra-
ton, instead of the return wire long
held to ba indispensable. Ills sin ,le
wire ElotCrs gave that fact. and led
to the further conclusion that it was
not necessary to have wen d 81 sic
connection between the motor and sen
orator, except, perhaps, through the
ground. But to utilize electric energy
given eff into space or transmit 1T
through the srouait is Il problem some
what different from 'hly IF procuring
at amy point of TO earth Il ,espt use
to the disturbance OF is ere c.llI:,3
at some other pc Mt 7 T. one TURNS
on the question Of how = Oh AL elec-
trio conductor the Garth nli,. be SHOW II
to be-, the other OH how nearly it is
possible to ascertain at what paiicd
the earth's charge Of clec re ty ost IL
lates With respect to an O poSltely
electrified system nr known c,rcii +.
Tho scientific basis of the lneory
that the earth is an electrically cha god
body insulated in space Is 10 he hound
In the accepted view of its or Ii
that. namely. If hit Gil n CT; p alton
from other bodies. But the il % mt
question was t. discover What Ctc1ntity
of electricity the earth GOTTA what.
In scientific language. is its 'caDacty'
and what is the period OF vi tio-i:
On the answer TO that depends
possibil ty Ct diz III 9 the cicero
stat" g lit:nn - III so as :"
tran NIT ineligible as to any s.
lance imply thr> @h IL earth itself
or it's eHvirnninG M",l I'm. NJ. Tesla
has succend'Hi i'll IL: Sig ;h~t p7ssib l.
ity IL the rank Of Il p On hill. il not
Of a certainty. Ec l.as pr: d eicc-
trici:y into ,i:e Garth, ard has secured
"reso nance' so powerful as to n'ai.itesi
its.lf in 'igh:n ny i. : Q; J. aera-
bic length and vividhess. y, other
words. II" las been as !: ct Il re-
sponse ilir"uE!. tie ln"t:'i ii vibration
which lie lis imp e,sel on the earth
from the electric ci'"rg, which it dis
turbed til re. The two mast. therefore,
have some hing in common; must have
cerra 4 gree of rhyth!n;cal CORE
EpoEG"l.cn ;:c%eyer vide OF complete
accord. They III st not touch more
closely than would the units which go
to .:ake Up 2,G;>3 an 201D.OO0 if the
former Wee ti rib ted over q Inc
form " the ut'its which go to make
uD the la el'. But as in this case one
In ~, void :ouch, and the whole be
covered 1T ccr AN fix d intervals, so
Mr.. Tcsla's cy.,er ments have led him
far enough 10 show that he has hit
unn'. s..'lln i.H;'; nc correspondence
between The k and the unknown
rir..;t;.. Et.l:t.l has succeed I'd in
tliMsin:s ;iaei1, into anything lite per-
fee y, ord, A, VII be able by a gentle
eic2;:'i" ~. TO send note vibrating
,yv. HE = i,oIe face Of the earth, as if
it Ivy J. re- Elm like the t'ghtened
skin Of dlg1n.-Rns:on Herald.