The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-04-18

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eli the other monopoliee that denends On
power Of any kind win coms 70 ! .sau,9l den
ston.. Thu aarth,s current. az alacfr;c;fv
are % be hafn essed. Nature aunpIies them
FREQ Of. charge. The coat Of mower. liuht
and heat will be practically nothing.
Tho scientific electricians who have for
years been trying to master the mystery
Of electrical earth currents with which
the ground beneath your feet ia filed. are
ON the threshold of success. The sue.
cess of the experiments they have under
way means much to them but vastly
more to the people. It means that if
Nikpla Tesla succeeds in harvesting the
electrical earth currents and putting them
to work. for man there will be An end to
oppressive extortionate monopolies in
steam. telephones. tele9raphs and the 9th.
er commercial uses of electricity. and that
the praspinp millionaires who have for
two decades MIXED the peoples purse
with electrical fingers will have to re-
linquish their monopoly.
Nikola Tesla has discovered the secret
of the electic earth currents of nature,
and they will be adapted to the uses of
man. He has succeeded in transmitting
sound BY the currents that make an cleo.
trio net of the earth. The Transmission
of power will follow. His experiments
reduced to commercially practicable uses
will mean that men will be able to tap
the electric currents of the earth and
make them serve the purpose of industry
and of trade Just as a we'll digger taps
water or miner opens vein Of coal.
The mighty electrical energy that has
been stored up in the earth for ages will
be harnessed and made to move the ma
chinery of men.
Electricity will be as free as the air.
For the privileges of its use legislatures
will not have to be bribed or men cor
rupted at the polls, and public boards
will not have to be "seen'' to bestow ex-
elusive franchises upon corporations or
ganized to use public property for pur.
poses of private gain, and make the people
pay the original cost of their investment
and excessive charges for service in order
to squeeze dividends out of copiously
"atered shares.
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hahdJ6 the key of telegraph instrument
connected with wire that girdles the
globe seven times and laps over on the
eighth turn distance equal to 1900
miles. Pull the trigger of the pistol and
simultaneously press the telegraph key.
While the sound of the report of the re-
volver is travelling !, $50 feet the electrical
impulse impaired by the pressure on the
key will pass seven and half times
around the world through the wire with
which the key Is connected.
Sound travels 1880 feet second, an
electrical impulse 10000 miles second.
If the electrical currents with which the
earth Is filled can be harnessed and put to
work, new era in electricity will have
dawned. It is to the mastering of these
earth currents and their adaptation that
scientists like Tesla have been striving.
In the course of Tesla's experiments it