The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-13
WIRELESS TO TRIUMPH.
Nfkoia Tesla Predicts Great Advances
 fn Year.

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 in Year.
 NIX ola Tesla in The New York World.
 Constant and careful study of the state of things in his particular sphere enables an expert to make 8 forecast fairly accurate of the next state. The seemingly isolated events are to him but links of chain. As a rule the signs he notes are so pronounced that he can predict the changes about to take place with certitude. The per- formance is a mere banality as com inspired into the distant future. This is forecast-not a prophecy.
 The coming year will be great in thought and result. It will mark the end of a large number of erroneous ideas, which, by their paralyzing ef- feet on the mind, have throttled inde- pendent research and hampered prog ress and development In various de- partments of science and engineering.
 The first to be dispelled is the illu- sion of the Hertz or electro-magnetic waves. The expert already realizes that practical wireless telegraphy and telephony are possible only by min- imizing this wasteful radiation. TThe results recently obtained in this man ner with comparativly crude applian- ces illustrate strikingly the possibil- ities of the genuine art.
 Wireless Across Pacific.
 Before the close of the year wireless transmission across the Pacific and trans-Atlantic wireless telephony may be expected with perfect confidence. The uses of the wireless telephone in isolated districts will spread like fire.
 The year will mark the fall of the iilusionary idea that action must di- minish with distance. By impressing upon the earth certain vibrations, to which it responds resonantly. the whole planet is virtually reduced to the size of little marble, thus enabling the reproduction of any kind of effects as human speech, music, pictures. or effect of character whatever, and even the transmission of power in unlimited amounts with exactly the same facil- ity and economy at any distance, how-
 Iii. aea7 onths will witt rase 0 .alar ion of ideas roc p-tuN That there is ua Fac. .as Uqdium, pollonium a~ -oou. more and more
 Fc, fra Imply deceptive
 fern phlogiston. .e t-', etse early announce -l-s2.- ..4.sS Ianotlons, before the discovery of Mime. Curie, they are emit ted more or less by all bodies and are all of the same kfnd-mereIy effects of shattered molecules, differentiated not by the nature of the substance, but by size, speed and identification.
 Airships Common in Sky.
 The coming year will dispel anoth- CT error which has greatly retard- ed the progress of aerial navigation. The aeronaut will soon satisfy him. self that an aeoplane proportioned ac- cording to data obtained by Langley is altogether co heavy to soar, and that such 8 machine, while 1t will have some uses. can never fly fast as a dirigible balloon. Once this is fully recognized the expert will concentrate his efforts on the latter type and bee fore many months are passed 1t will be a familiar object in the sky.
 There is abundant evidence that dis tinct improvements will be made in ship propulsion. The numerous theories are giving place to the vitw that what propels the vessel is a reactive jet; hence the propeller is doomed to inef- ficiency at high speed. A now princi- pie will be introduced.
 The world is invited Co test the &C., curacy of this forecast at the close of the year.