The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-02
NlkoIa Tesla'S Remark
able Invention.
His OScillat0rS Produce 100,-
100000 Vibrations.
Man Who Eats Common Soap and
Uses Coal Oil as a Beverage.

A brief dispatch from New York the
other day announced that Nikola Tesla
had com pleted an intenlion destined to
be OF the highest Importance to the
electrical world. These latest productions
of tho wonderful genius are called
osc,llal ors ard 10y them Tesla breaks a
current some sixty or eighty million
times a second, producing. according to
his calculation, not less than one hundred
vibrations second. His device is the
result of several years patient experiment
for the best means OF producing high
frequency currents, and IL is believed the
invention will almost entirely supersede
the present induction coil transformers.
As usual Mr.. Tesla speaks very modestly
about this latest of his Inventions and
ABOUT the long and patient work that had
to be performed before II was perfected.
He says, however. that he feels that he
has at last achieved complete success in
the proonction OF ample, practical and
efficient transformers for the conversion
OF ordinary direct or alternating currents
frequency. His device can be put to
many uses, the most being In electrical
Illumination bv means Of vacuum tubes
or bulbs. With vacuum tubes entirely
disconnected from the exciting coil they
. sre made under the influence OF high-fre-
husncy currents to glow with a brilliant
white light that is much more powerful
No sa
Z It present used in iucandescent lamps Is
: mployed and the vacuum tubes are
therefore far more simple and economical
q construction.
In experiment with the Rotsngen rays
Mr.. Tesla says his new transformers will
be especially useful. More powerful effects
arc produced and the cryptogrsph, u pic
tures are required can be taken more
quickly, while IL the forsscent screen is
used the image is shown sharper and more
distinctly. The osciilators will also be
found advantageous In electro thera peutic
? .reatment, in the manufacture of argon
pEd ozone and In Photographic work.
Hereabouts there are people with very
queer taste, but it is doubtful whether
any OF them can match for eccentricity a
New Yorker named David Holland. Hol-
land mss penchsnt for eating soap, while
mis- favorite beverage is coal oil. When
no cannot obtain tho soap to eat and
the oil TO drink he becomes un-
happy and despondent. Holland has
. wife, Angelus by name. who does not
ragree with him. She declares the family
supply OF soap and coal oil shall be de-
voted to their legitimate and conven-
tionsl uses and when her spouse raised q
row over her decision she had him
arrested.
When tho husband was arraigned he
demanded that rstions of soap aud coal
oil Ehould be issued to him Immediately.
lie claimed. that be he'd chills and fever
and that the oil and the soap would re-
lievs him. He didn't care about the
brand of..soap furnished SO ho was per-
misted TO takea drink out of the watch
mans lantern, while piece of ordinary
police court soap was given him to
MUNICH on. To the magistrate before
whom he appeared Hollsnd declared that
he wss'not crazy but that his wife was
hopelessly insane.