The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-05-17


A message has At last been transmit
ted without wires. A few days ago
Marconi, the young Italian inventor,
sent message across the English
Channel between Francs and England
and excited worldwide interest. Aster-
wards. however, he admitted the limit
Of his system had been reached.
Nicola Tesla, however, now comes
forward and claims that he has perfect
ed a discovery which overoonles all the
defects Of IarConis system. He claims
he can start electrical waves that will
travel acrUss the ocean and completely
around the world and bear messages
with the sw fitness Of light.
To do this he will use instruments
similar to the ordinary telegraphic
senders and receivers that the average
person could not tell the difference be-
tween them.
His system consists Of great, round
instrument, into which an ordinary
current Of electricity is turned from
any dynamo. The oseillator instantly
transforms il by a series of coils into an
electro-motive force, vibrating at the
rate Of two to four million times a see
ond. This starts electric waves through
the air aud earth, which vibrate almost
as fast as the waves that produce light,
and travel with the same speed.
Nothing, Mr.. Tesla says, can now ob-
struct or divert messages sent by this
marvellous device. Words in incredible
rapidity viii be flashed across the
broadest oceans and the widest eonti-
nents. Ia fact, there is, according to
the statements Of the celebrated elee-
trician, nothing to prevent the trans
mission Of messages directly through
the earth.
Electrical vibrations" Mr.. Tesla
saws, "have shown that ordinary cur
rents can be transformed, with high
economy, into electrical vibrations Of
any pitch, which are needed in many
novel arts. They have shown that elee-
trieal energy in great amounts can be
efficiently and safely transmitted with
out the use OF wires to any part Of the
globe, however distant They have
furnished proof that the movements
Of and operations Of bodies and ma
ehinery carried by the same can be cor
trolled at a great distance without any
tangible connection whatever, and with
absolute precision, aud they have prov
ed the practicability Of a system Of sig-
ualing without wires, not with the inn
perfect appliances as before attempted,
which can not be tuned, aud are ren.
dered useless By the play Of a small in
ductjon coil, but by means OF aprafa-
tns producing powerful osciliationssn and
circuits in exact synchronism, with
which it is impossible 70 interfere.
He claims he can fash 1900 OF 3 600
words per minute to any part Of the
earth bv the highly sensitized termin-
ais he has perfected. Distance no Ion
ger intimidates the electrician He has
demonstrated, he said, that messages
may be sent with equal facility through
the earth by induction through the air.
The delicate and sensitive receiving de-
vice registers accurately every vibration
Of the transmitter. Neither distance
nor density Of intervening objects will
affect the speed or accuracy OF the
transmission Of messages.
Accuracy and the avoidance Of de-
Law are secured by adjusting the reeeiv-
ing and transmitting eontrivanee to
common electric multiple. Then only
the receiver, prearranged and pread-
iusted. will record the message intend-
ed for it.