The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-15
POWER FOR PARIS SHOW
TESLA SAYS HE WILL SEND ELEC-
TRICKY ACROSS THE OCEAN.
Niagara's Torrent to BE Used as Gem
eratOr-NO Wires Necessary to
Transmit the Current 1000 Miles.

NEW YORK Nov 14.-Now Nikola Tesia
declares that he intends to the ma
chinery of the Paris exposition with electric
power sent instantly across the ocean from
Niagara Falls This astounding statement
was made by him yesterday. He has just
patented his machine for transmitting etcc-
trcity without wires. He says he shoot
thousa nds of millions of volts around and
through the globe without metallic con-
ductors. 1T is like tale from the Ara
bian Nights, " says the Electrical Review,
land, il successful, it will open up unlim-
tied sources of practically costless power
If successful it means that from the great
falls of Niagara, of the Yellowstone, of
Alaska and of the canyons of Colorado UNI
limited power of millions of volts can be de-
lvered in New York, London, Paris St.
Petersburg and Peking in a second of time.
Mountains, rivers and oceans would thus
be annihilated.
Tesla says his machinery works perfectly;
that he has demonstrated the seeming mir
acle beyond all possibility of failure. Il
can supply the Paris exhibition with Mag
ara's power. he said Il shall send ii
across the ocean without a wire My in
vention is the browning success OF long
years of thought and labor" Tesla went on
to explain how he invents. He says he first
discovers the natural laws governing the Sc
cret he is after. Then he can predict just
what his mechanism, when constructed in
certain way, will accomplish. When the
laws controlling their appointed work in the
universe have been once mastered, the MAX
ing of the proper machine to act in har-
mony with the laws, he asserts, is compar-
atively an easy task.
When Tesla discovered the laws leading
up to the invention of his famous oscillator
he was convinced that if he made certain
wires in the machine exactly of the re-
quired length the electricity OF the globe
would stream forth in flame. He worked
long and persistently, with no satisfactory
result Still, he said, he knew to a mathe-
NAUTICAL certainty-a certainty on which he
would stake his life-that the flames must
appear when he once found the right meas
urements. At last he hit it, he asserts and
the world now marves at the results an~
When Lord Kelvin, the Shakespeare of
European science, saw this machine in
ton, it's awful flames shooting and explod-
ing in veritable thunderbots, 1t is said that
his emotion was profound, for above and
beyond it's spectacular features he realized
that il sent its currents around and through
the universe of matter. Between each terri
flying lightning stroke the globe is pene-
trated and encircled by the million-volt
IOTCe. WIN llliS SSSAAIhSly elSulouSty en-
dowed oscillator Tesla, it is declared, in
stantly brings Paris and Hong Kong within
the reach of his hand
Tesla without any wire or other artificial
means of communication, uses the earth
and atmosphere as his double wire. and thus
secures a complete electrical circuit. He
has a thunderbolt- producing machine, his
famous 'oscillator" Instead of producing
the few thousand volts used for electric
lighting, propelling trolley cars or killing
murderers at Sing Sing, it manufacturers
millions of volts. The electricity is of such
a character, ii is stated, that when the ma
chine fills a room with jagged lightning,
flashing and laundering in tornado of fiery