Phoenix tribune., 1919-07-05
TESLA TELLS HOW 1000 MILES
CAN Be MADE BY FLYING MACHINE
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there would great securing oxygen supply
the combustion of the fuel speak of other limitations
However at height Of eight miles the decrease of oxygen
be for both aviator OF provision
would have be made for supplying aviator and passengers with
In all probability they would have be entirely enclosed
just diver enclosed Our highest mountains miles
and the rarcaon of the makes climbing them difficult Above
five miles woud certainly be supplying
the aviator If he enclosed pressure
the thinner air would result dsastrouy The human mechanism
is adjusted of nearly Is pounds square nc and
if that pressure reduced about three pounds
altitude of eight miles the avaors eardms would burst and
even the blood would be forced through the and would
of the body"
explained the effect would be the same as that Of
bringing deepsea fish, accustomed to live mile below the surface
the surface of the The fish simply expodes for lack of
the pressure which its body is built to withstand.
With proper protection of the artificial supply
Of oxygen Tesla believes that flights the eighme altitude
quite possible
Then there will be great progress with the lighter than
machine and expect the advent of drgbe of the
Zeppelin vehicle for travel Contrary the
era belief such vessel be propelled rapidly than air
plane and it will be- the whole much safer Furthermore it will
the the necessary
make this form of travel popular practical
Of these structures formidable obstacles
tered They susceptible damage by storms believe also
from certain danger from lightning which will obviated by
the of helum But these difficulties
come.
The drigibe supplied sufficient power need not fear the
Storm it above around it. The only
storm any lies being blown from the course while
ship moving with the storm it is danger since it travels
utey quiet ar so that candle might be lighted deck Methods
of docking and housing the big ships devised
have been proposed that landing by making
unnecessary for the ship to o earth'
But the revolntionzng influence
Tesla believes to lie in the possibility transmitting power
through the air
For years. he said "I my system of wireless
transmission of which perfectly practicable
looking forward confidently adoption development
In the system have developed distance of absolutely
That to Zeppelin vessel would receive the
miles
plant The application wireless power propu
it difficult to imagine that perfect will found
to transport human beings distances economically The
supply virtually unlimited any number power plants
can be operated together supplying energy to arsps just trains
running tracks supplied with electrical energy through
rails wires
The transmission of power by wireless away with the
present necessity for carrying fuel the apane ap The
motors of the plane arp will be energzed by this transmitted
and there will be thing limitation radius
OF action since they pick point the globe
The advance of science this point however attended with
terrible risks for the world We facing condition that
lively appalling permit invade the earth again
For up to the present the main destructive force provided
by which limited by the the proect
ance be thrown In the future nations will fight
thousands of miles apart No soldier will his enemy In
future will be conducted directly
which let loose may well destroy civilization completely
again. look for the extensive of eproped air veh
es carrying charges of explosive which will be from
point to another do their destructive work. with human
being guide them The distance which they pra
cay unlimited and the of explosive they carry like
wise practically unlimited 1t is practicable send such
vessel say to distance of four five thousand miles and control
its either groscopcay electrically that will land
exact spot where intended to have land within few feet and
its cargo of explosive there be detonated.
s be done by of the present wireless plants
but with plant be and the
pang of between nations distance of thousands
of miles with destructive and demorazng that the world
could not endure them That why there be