Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-10
WIRELESS TELEGRAPnY.

Philadelphia Times. May IA
message has at last been transmitted
without wires A few days ago Mar
conf the young Italian inventor, sent
q message across the English chan
mel hetwt eu France and England
and excited worldwide interest. A.
terwards, howevor, he admitted the
limit of bis system had been reached
Nicola Tesla, however, now comes
forward and claims TINT he has per-
fected a discovery which overcomes
all the defect, of Marconi's system
He claims he can start electrical
waves that will travel across the
ocean and completely around the
world and bear messages with the
swiftness of light
To do this he will use instruments
50 similar to the ordinary telegraph
ic senders and receivers that the av
erage person could not tell the diff
ference between them.
His system consists of a great
round instrument. into which an Or
dinary current Ct electricity is turn.
ed from any dynamo. The cscil.a
tor instantly transforms it by a se-
ries of coils into an electro motive
force, vibrating at the rate of two to
four million times a second. This
starts electric waves through the AIR
and earth, which vibra,e almost as
far as the waves that produce light,
and travel with the same speed.
Nothing, Mr.. Tesla says, can now
obstruct or divert messages sent by
this marvellous device. Words in in
credible rspidity will be flashed
across the broadest oceans and the
widest continents. In fact, there is,
according to the statements of the
celebrated electrician. nothing to pre-
vent the Transmission of messages
directly through the earth.
electrical vibrations" Mr. Tesla
says, "have shown that Ordinary cur.
rents can be trans formed, with high
economy into electrical vibrations of
any pitch, which are needed in many
novel arts. They have shown that
electrical energy in great amounts
can be efficiently and safely transmit
ted without the use OF wires to any
part of the globe however distant.
They have furnished proof that the
movements of and operations of bod
les and machinery carried By the
same can be controlled at a great dis
tance without any tangible connec-
tion whatever, and with absolute pre-
cision, and they have proved The
practicability of system of signal
ing without wires, net with the i'm.
perfect appliances as before attempt
ed, which cannot be tuned and are
rendered useless by the play of a
small induction coil, but by means of
apparatus producing powerful oscil-
lstions and circuits in exact synchron-
oism, with which it it impossible to
interfere.
He claims he can flash 1000 or 8.
600 words per minute to any part of
the earth blythe highly sensitized
terminals he has perfected. Dis
tance no longer intimidates the cleo.
trician. He has demon strated he
said, that messages may be sent with
equal facility through the earth by
induction through the air. The del
icate and sensitive receiving device
registers accurately every vibration
of the transmitter. Neither distance
nor the density of intervening OBJ
jects will affect the speed or accur-
acy of the transmission of messages
Accuracy and the avoidance of de-
lay is secured by adjusting the re-
csiving and transmitting contrivancs
to a common electric multiple. Tnen
only the receiver, prearranged and
preadjusted, will record the message
intended for it.