Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17
Especial Correspondence Of the D<sre Mc by Frank Carpep)

u AEW York; give you today
the substance Of two remark
u able talks with Nlkola Tesla.
U The first I had In his labora-
tory on East Houston street
" nine years ago last September.
4 V the second was held in the
Waldorf tonight.
The FIRST interview was the most In
teresting. giving a wonderful insight
into Tesla the inventor and Tesla the
man, but It was never published, foI
Mr. Tesla at It's close, on the ground
OF business reasons begged that say
nothing about him for months to come,
wrote out the notes, however. and laid
them away, and when | met Mr. Tesla
tonight l told him ] now intended to
use them. At the same time we had
The extraordinary conversation about
his recent discoveries and Inventions
as to the transmission Of force, which l
reproduce In the latter part Of this ar
tcle,
First take a glance at Tesla the man.
He looked more like an Italian savant
than a Woodworking inventor when !
saw him in the Waldorf tonight He
was IN evening dress and was the most
striking figure OF the score Of public
men who stood about the lobby Mr..
Tesla Is now A years Of age and is In
his physical and intellectual prime, He
Is tall and slender, his head Is long.
thin and intellectual, with a forehead
high and full He was born In Hun
gary and educated there, but he speaks
English perfectly and is one OF the most
charming conyersatlonalIsts have even
met.
During my chat Of some years ago
he talked Of his boyhood His father
was clergyman Of the Greek church,
and Nikola was intended for the priest
hood He had brother older than
hllnself, whom the rest Of the family
considered much brighter. That broth.
er died young, and this so crazed his
father and mother that II took them
long 10 realize the genius of Nikola. II
he stood well In his studies his fathers
eyes would M as he thought how much
better perhaps. the other sor might
have done, and whatever Nlkola did
was always compared with the posi-
Die work Of the boy who had passed
away His first education was In the
public schools Of GospIch, and after
mat he went to the Real Schulz at
harlstadt AS he went on with his
studies he liked mathematics so much
mat he intended TO ~ himself to be a
professor Of mathematics and physics,
ana With that view he studied at the
Foytechnic school at Gratz. He
changed to the engineering course, and
Iater on studied philosophy aud lang
uages IN the colleges at Prague and
huda Pest. He has since been made
DOCTOR N laws by Yale and Columbia.
shortly after completing his studies
MT Tesla was associated with the gov
eminent ofAustria-Hungary IN the tele-
siaph engineering department. where
nc invented several Improvements.
from there he went to Paris to be en-
siheer OF large lighting company, and
uehce TO the United States, where he
was employed by Thomas Edison IN his
laboratory. His next position was that
ol electrician to the Tesla Electric
iAsht company, and at the same time
he established the Tesla laboratory
nee from which his great inventions
have come.
TESLA THE INVENTOR.
during my chat with Mr., Tesla |
asked him when he first realized that
90 had the inventive faculty and he told
I'VE he had always been lnventlng some.
"hs or other. When he was quite o
snall boy he made toy guns which
would shoot birds, and as he was the