The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-06-29
TESLA and HIS
WIRELESS ACE

less IIdnSlIlSHlOD vi tbtl By n itN
years ago it may be remembered he
stood in the theater of the Royal In.
stitution with oscillatory currents OF
unheard of voltage playing about his
unframed head. This taste for the
sensational has always been one of
Tesla's commanding characteristics.
He prides himself on it. Others may
criticise Tesla for this love of the
sensational, but he himself will sit
for hours talking about some OF his
seemingly impossible exploits, while
the mention of one Of the inventions
which, as he says, "the world calls
practical" will fail to elicit from him
so much as a wink of an eyelash. AS
he himself told me, II is doubtful II
anyone ever performed so many really
dramatic hair-raising experiments as
he. He is as proud of them as boy.
The zest with which he tells of how
after showing Sarah Bernhard his
most daredevil exploits, she hurried
away almost in state of nervous
collapse, Is equalled only by the off
hand manner in which he mentions
currents of S0.00O,OOO vibrations a
second, and his descriptions of
sparks and flames In his laboratory
experiments which rival, If not equal,
the lightning itself. | recall that, in
referring to one of his experiments,
somewhat like that in the opening
paragraph of this article, he antici-
pated my inquiry by saying; Il don't
do that any more; It is too danger
GUS"
But though there may be much of
the pure love for the dramatic in Tes-
has announcements, there is really
more of what may be truly scientific
imagination. Such experiments with
all their elaborate stage setting Tues
la believes to be of far greater prac.
teal Importance than even those OF
his inventions which the world calls
practical" For. as he tersely put 1t;
"The economic transmission of power
without wires is allsurpassing import
ance to man"
It all began, as he will tell you, In
his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES he
calls them-during a great thunder
storm on July 3, 1899. Out of it came
his high potential magnifying trans
mitter," and such patents along this
line OF wireless transmission as Nos
G45,576 and 649,62l, for transmission
of electrical energy in any quantity
to any distance with transmitting ant
receiving apparatus movable, as IL
ships and balloons.
I'VE are on a conducting body in
sulated in space, of definite and I'm
changeable dimensions and proper
ties" he says. 1T will never be pos
sible to transmit electrical energ,
economically through the body and ii
environment except by essential
the same means and methods whic
have discovered. and the system
so perfect now that it admits of bu
little Improvement"
Under certain conditions" say
Tesla, the atmosphere which is no
mally a high insulator assumes co
Quoting properties and so becomes c
pable of conveying any amount
electrical energy. | would undertal
to transmit through my body wi
such currents the energy OF all t
dynamos at Niagara"
To carry out his ideas he has (
yised a plant of which he says;
popular error which have often
portunity to correct is the belief Il
the energy of such plant would {
sipate itself in all directions. This
not so. Electricity is displaced by
uansmitter in all directions equf
through the earth and air, but enc
is expended only at the place VIII
IL is collected and used TO perfC
some work A plant of 10000 no
power might be running full blast
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