The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-19
TEsLA's GREAT CLAIMS.
,,-.at He says of Message From
uars-What Others Say.
n the New York Journal.

~. has communicated with Mars. he de-
les while on Pixies Peak, delving into
,ns mysteries of the wireless transmits
sion of electrical energy.
The summons was faint, but, according
b., Tesla. not TO be mistaken.
new voice from a planet thousands
- miles removed, was speaking over one
~ the myriad unwired telephones of
~. Universe and there, near the lonely
.,ountain peak, in the fathomless calm of
rtobt the voice al last found a listener
ra world spoke to world in language
,range az first but sure to be clearer
.ys Tesla ere the twentieth century
bad dnlshed its course. Here the Journal
.rsssnts what Tesla himself says of this
Srst manifestation:
..rt was in investigating feeble electrical
sc,ions transmitted through the earth
hail made some observations which are
N me the most gratifying.
Chief among these were certain feeble
electrical disturbances which 1 could
barely note at times, and which by their
character Enthusiastically showed that they
were ne Their of solar origin nor produced
bv anv causes known to me on the globe
What could they be?
VIII Talk to Mars.
81 have necessarily thought of this
for months, until finally l arrived at
the conviction, amounting almost to
krowleGge that they must be of planetary
origin. I have perfected my transmitting
arnsratus so far that l can construct
machine which will without the slight
est do.bt be fully competent to convey
Sufficient energy to the planet Mars to
on4rate one of these delicate appliances
instance very sensitive telegraph or
telephone instrument.
Now since we ourselves are already so
far advanced, is it unreasonable to be-
lieye that OF the twenty or twenty-five
nlanets Of the solar system one, if not
more, might be ahead of us in the evolu-
rion? Where there is suns heat and mois-
1ure life must originate and must go on
developing just as stone must fail to
earth"
Tesla's almost incredible discovery was
Irade BY him in Colorado two years ago
while he was conducting experiments in
relation 10 the wireless transmission Of
energy He worked in a laboratory spe-
cially constructed about ten miles from
Pixies Peak.
When he was asked yesterday to give
some visible form or notation to the mes
s. ge he had received he smiled enigmati-
caly and said:
LAS have already said, one of the plan
cts in the solar system may be ahead of
us in the evolution. Their means of inter-
planetary communication may be perfect,
but we have yet to learn their sign Ian
guage 1t is impossible at present, even
to suggest a code and my observations to
the Red Cross Society on New Years
Eve we're purely speculative, but for pur-
poses of Illustration they will answer the
purpose at present.
1t is enough to say at this time that
4 message from Mars which might be
triangle to them would appear as some
other form to US and Vice-versa. These
differences can only be reconciled by
time and careful study. 1t is wonderful
enough. is ii not, that beginning has
been made
ION Pixies Peak l set out to carry on
my experiments along three different
lines.
zone of the first observations / made
in Colorado was of great scientific i'm
portance and copfrmatory of a result
had already obtained in New York.
refer to my discovery of the stationary
electrical waves in the earth. The signif-
canoe Of this phenomenon has not yet
been grasped by technical men, but II
virtually amounts to a positive PROOF
that, with proper apparatus, such as l
have perfected, wireless transmission
of signals to any point on the globe Is
practicable When l read statements to
the effect that such a thing is impossible
and recall the numerous adverse criu-
cisms of my expressed confidence that
can ultimately accomplish this, l expert
ence feeling of satisfaction.
Difficulties Encountered.
I
tered at first great difficulties. l had
few narrow escapes from sudden sparks
jumping out to great distance, and a
number of times my laboratory caught
fire, but | carried all the work through
without a serious mishap l gradually
learned how to confine electrical currents
of pressure of $1,000, 900 volts; how to
produce electrical movements up to
1000 horsepower and 1 succeeded in
obtaining electrical discharges measuring
from end to end 100 feet and more These
results We're however. rendered more
valuable by the fact that they opened up
still greater possib lities for the future.
"As l think over it now it seems to
me that only men absolutely stricken
with blindness, insensibe to the great
ness of nature, can hold that this planet
is the only one inhabited by intelligent
beings"
As to the practical details of establish
ing a system of inter-planetary com
munication Mr.. Tesla is not yet prepared
TO talk. His suggestion, however, of an
Interchange of mathematical forms would
indicate at once a practical basis of
operations by means of initiating cleo
ulcal disturbances at the three angles
OF vast triangle described over an I'M
merse area of the earth's surface
Observers at these points with means
at command for the transmission of
powerful electrical energy could thus
indicate TO the inhabitants of Mars in
lhmistakable manner the species of
form language in which it was desired
10 mold communication.
thus little by title. an Ineligible code
'ould be established containing possibili-
'es Tor the acquis ton of exact data
eohcerning other worlds far beyond the
"Icest dreams of necromancers.
lesla now firmly believes that with i'm
proved apparatus it is not only probable,
nut entirely poss BILE, that we shall be
eole TO communicate with the inhabitants
OF other planets.
Astronomers scepticaI.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Professor S. l.
brown, Of the United States Naval OBJ
s.eIVatory said to-day: ANY proclama-
'ou coming from Tesla is likely to be re-
wed with considerable incredulity.
ley been looking in vain for some prac-
HC4ole results to follow the extravagant
AIMS that he has constantly made dur
"'s me past half dozen years.
ms assertion that he has found that