The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-21
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BY the velocity of the electrical ex-
plosions in his marvellous machine
known as the condenser.
What giant can drive a hard wax
candle into wood from blows from
hammer? But a boy can shoot soft
tallow dip through an oak plank with
a shotgun. The powder gives the can
die velocity.
A frontier teamster can split a board
with his OK whip. which his child plays
with and finds harmless. Sand blown
from powerful air blast machine cuts
glass and steel like butter. Big steel
rails are cut with a soft iron disc.
With the water that falls in gentle
dew on the rose garden, the hydraulic
miner in California beats down hills
and mountains. because of the force
velocity-behind the water.
With his oscillator and condenser,
Tesla says he sends waves of electric
ity through space with a force that
makes dynamite a child's toy by COM
parison.
OF the dread thunderbolts that de-
vastate forests and shatter the noun
tain's crest he says:
II believe that often not more than
three horse power Of energy is in the
lightning stroke that rends the oak
or splits down cliffs of granite. 1t is
the velocity of explosion that gives the
electric current its awful force.
My Oscillator sets up vibration
of electricity that is felt in every part
of the world, and yet it's terrific force
is scarcely perceptible to man.
Tesla has been criticised severely by
unthinking scientists. yet his invention
of the rotating magnetic field motor"
has made those mighty machines in
Niagara Falls possible. They light the
city of Buffalo, 20 miles away, and
run its street cars and the machinery
of thousand factories. Tesla's name
in big letters of bronze cast on the
plates of these world famed machines
is fitting monument of his genius.
His achievement in obtaining instan-
taneous force encircling the globe, ON
nipotent and everywhere present, Dor
ders on the miracuous-the infinite.
Tesla makes the unseen visible,
terrible manifestation in nature. He
generates currents that would not dis
turb fly on your sleeping babe, yet
they are as devastating as a cyclone.
He gives the faintest whispering cur
rent force-a force that disintegrates
armor plate as quickly as you melt
sugar with water.
In a way, he brings certainty out of
chaos. He makes substance from moth
ing That which you can neither see,
taste, hear nor smell, he lashes into a
storm of fury, and you hear this moth
It suggests to the contempative mind
that period when this great rolling
globe Of ours was without form and
void"
1t suggests the phenomena of the
original creation of matter made visi-
BILE to mantle power of making sub
stance out of thought. of thinking
nothing into substance, and perhaps
the life principle itself. In this direc-
| ton, toward this great end, science
seems certainly drifting.
In one sense it may be said that the
only sure thing to-day, the only thing
that can be predicted with unfailing
accuracy, is that which no man has
seen with his naked eye nor touched
nor heard, nor tasted with his lips
the star which no one has beheld, but
which science has already catalogued
and which will appear next year or
next century to the hour and minute
Who dares stake his life on the sure
arrival of to-morrow's o'clock express
at that hour? Yet all the world knows
! that to-morrow's eclipse will arrive on
| time to the second.
1t is along these omnipotent. infalli
Bile lines of science that Tesla is ap
parently working.
Now to go back to his views on the
use of electricity for disease.
Tesla has been before the greatest
scientific body of its kind in the coun-
| try with his discovery His address
to the Electro Therapeutic association
regarding the use of electricity by physi-
clans in healing wounds and curing dis
ease is soon TO be published by the So
ciety.
In his carefully prepared paper he
makes these interesting statements:
The body of person may be subject
ed without danger to electrical pres
bic by ordinary apparatus, for they
may amount to several million volts, as
has been shown in actual practice.
Nov, when a conducting body is
electrified to so high a degree small
particles, which may be adhering firm
ly to its surface, are torn off with vio-
lence and thrown to distances which
can only be conjectur-d.
The continuous improvement of the
instruments and the study of the phe-
nomenon may shortly lead to the es-
tablishment of novel mode Of hy-
gienic treatment which would permit
an instantaneous cleaning of the skin
of a person, simply by connecting the
same to, or possibly. by merely placing
the person in the vicinity of, a source
of intense electrical oscillations this
having the effect of throwing off, in
twinkle of the eye, dust or particles of
any eXtraneous matter adhering to the
body
OF his experiments Tesla says:
Soon my efforts We're centered upon
producing in small space the most in
tense inductive action, and by gradual
Improvement in the apparatus I OBJ
tanned results of a surprising charac-
ter.
For instance when the end of a
heavy bar of iron was thrust within a
loop powerfully energized, a few mo-
ments were sufficient to raise the bar
to a high temperature.
Even heavy Jumps of other metals
were heated as rapidly as though they
We're placed in furnace
when a continuous band formed of
a sheet of tin was thrust into the loop
the metal was fused instantly, the ac-
ton being comparable to an explosion
and no wonder, for the FRACTIONAL losses
accumulated in it at the rate of pos
sibly 10 horse power.