Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-17

power for your factory, and TO supply the
same regularly by the force furnished from
Niagara Falls. Suppose you are travelling
in the wids of the Andes and make
your camp on the shores of Lake Titicaca
BY the outcome of this principle you may
have telegraphed to you there instantaneous
reports of the news of the world as it hap
pens from time to time. You may COOK
your dinner over an electric fire thus trans,
mitted, and you may have the same at Will
on any part of the globe. We shall be able
to send power from place to place at Will;
and that at such small cost that it Will
be industrially profitable.
Without Wires.
How did you discover that this might
be done. Mr. Tesla?" 1 asked
Il have for years been working on the
transmission of electrical energy. and IN
1898 established a laboratory on the edge
of the Rocky mountains near Colorado
Springs My laboratory there was over
six thousand feet high, higher than the
top of Mount Washington, and | had eX-
traordinary conditions for my experiments.
Colorado is famous for its natural dis
plays of electrical force The earth at
times is alive with electrical vibrations ana
the air is full of electricity. L have seen
twelve thousand lightning discharges with
in two hours and ali within a radius of
thirty miles of my laboratory. These DIS
charges were of great violence. some OF
them looking like trees of fire on the
that l had my electrical Instruments and
studied the principles of electrical trans
mission through the earth and air. One
day while watching the lightning l no.
ticed that the discharges afar off often af-
fected the instruments in my laboratory
more than those near by. Upon eXamlna-
ton 1 found that this could not be caused
by the difference of intensity in the in
dividual discharges
What could it be?
Through instruments made for the pur-
pose tested the matter from time to time
and finally came to the conclusion that the
vibrations caused by the lightning moved
around the world and that there were sta
tionary waves. 1 could gauge the dis
charges near the laboratory and see them
fade away and after a certain fixed period
find them returning with almost no loss
of power. In short, this planet; as big as
it is. was acting as conductor, and be-
came convinced that upon it not only tele-
graphic messages, but also the modulations
of the human voice and electrical power in
unlimited amounts could be carried around
the entire globe and sent to any part of it
with hardly any perceptible loss. With my
transmitter 1 actually sent electrical vibra-
lions around the world and received them
again, and l then went on to develop my
machinery. | had, as l have told you, been
studying and inventing along the lines of
electrical transmission and was ready to
take advantage of my discovery. I have
since so improved the means of individual
ization and isolation that such energy may
be sent in any amount to any fixed place
without danger of its going elsewhere or
affecting others, and | believe the indiyid-
utilization can be carried out to almost any
degree
Niagara for the World.
''Will this enable the power of Niagara to
be sent anywhere over the world?'
Yes. l have been experimenting at my
laboratory on Long Island. 1 have ma