Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17

only one who could make them he sup
piled the boys Of his neighborhood He
made clocks at eight or nine years and
began to dabble IN electricity before he
was In his teens. His first determine
ton to devote his life to invention came
shortly after he went to London to de-
liver a lecture before a scientific So
ciety there. AT this lecture he met
Lord Raylelgh, the great physicist, and
showed him some Of his experiments.
Rayleigh said that he had undoubtedly,
the faculty OF discovery and that he
would succeed as an inventor,
shortly after this my mother died."
said Mr.. Tesla, "and / concluded to ex-
ert this faculty Lord Raylelgh had
said possessed It and, upon examin-
ing myself, l believed him correct
did not want to waste my powers on
small things and decided to strive to-
ward something that would benefit hui
mainly. ] am working on an inyen-
ton for the transmission Of force. This
invention will, believe, revolutionize
the world OF labor. l am also work.
ing on electricity and l cannot remem-
Der when | was not working more or
less in the direction OF successful fiy-
ing machine. My idea, as TO that is
along different lines than any yet pro-
posed, and | expect to see II realized.
Indeed we shall eventually have flying
machines that viii be large enough to
carry crowds through the air. They
must be large In order TO succeed
These words were uttered by Mr.. Tes-
la nine years ago, Today he says he
has completed his force transmission
invention, as viii be seen by my Wal
dorf conversation, which follows He
has also done other things which he
proposed IN that interview. Remem-
Der II was before the time OF the wire
less telegraph, but he then said to me
the following:
Il tell you, we are on the threshold
Of a new era. We have only begun to
master the great forces Of nature, and
the Inventions of the next few decades
will be far superior to any Of the past
What would you think Of standing on
the shore and telephoning to your
friends IN mideocean? What Of being
IN the center OF a room and making
your whole body blaze with light?
What Of sending power to and fro over
the earth at viii and making It do It's
work anywhere and almost anyhow"
Mr.. Tesla told me that his greatest
Measure was In his work, and that he
could conceive no moment so exciting
and rapturous as that connected with
the discovery OF a new principle which,
when put into use would reyolutlonize
Che work OF the world. Take, for In
stance, the invention which brought
forth the apparatus used IN the trans
mission OF power at Niagara Falls. Said
he, as he took me TO a great coil OF wire
wound about a stationary magnet,whIch
was connected with the dynamo and
held above It a little glass globe IN
which was steel wheel moving on a
pivot: Il had been working upon that
experiment for long time, and this
was the test. knew that II | were
correct that the wheel in this globe
would revolye as soon as / turned on
the electricity It did reyolye, and I !
knew ! had discovered what would re- /
the labor OF the world. You
can run all sorts OF power by that prin-
clple. You can take power from Ma
CARA and bring It to New York. The
cars can be pulled by II, factories run,
houses heated and dinners cooked.
cannot describe my sensation when I |
saw the wheel reyolye thought /
should go crazy, and went to my la
toratory and took some bromide Of po-
TO quiet me.
1t has been the same In some OF my