The Washington times., 1922-11-07
BY WALTER VOGDES.
Copyright 1922. by Cosmopolitan
News Service)

(COpyrlght, lg22, by Cosmopolitan
News ServceD
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Look
right through the earth!
DR.. Nicola Tesla, eminent
scientist, creator of numerous
electrical systems and appliances
now used throughout the worl
narrowed his gray eyes and in his
purring foreign accent asserted to-
day that man will soon be able
to do that very thing. He will
also be able to look around the
earth. he said.
I A New Yorker will be able to
sit in his office and talk to his
business associates in Australia or
China, the doctor explained. As
he talks he will observe the
gestures, the facial play of the
man at the other end of a wire
less 'phone.'
Like Human Eye.
II have invented machine" said
DR.. Tesla. fashioned after the
human eve, which will perceive OBJ
jects in their true shape, irrespective
of distance and intervening OBJ
stacles"
The doctor spoke in a low, matter.
of-fact way as he sat in secluded
corner of a lounging room Of the
Hotel ST. Regis. The hum of con-
versation from the smartly dressed.
sophisticated men and women round
about floated across the rOom-bits
Of conversation concerning til G
nnafauiaI 7 had n Lon FOR.
ward and give the strictest attention
to hear the startling disclosures the
noted scientist had to make about
the future.
Upsairs on the sixteenth floor of
the hotel, DIR. Tesla has his work
rooms: also his home. Both are i'm
penetrable to the outsider. But in
those workrooms are fantastic ma
chimes destined, the scientist asserts.
to bring about wonfrous changes In
our material world.
Work Of Thirty Years.
None is stranger than the eye
machine. Behind it's creation lie
thirty years of observation and
study. 1t is built after the fashion
of the delicate human eye. 1t be-
comes dynamic under electric pres
sure and Will send light. DIR. Tesla
said, through any substance and to
any distance on this earth.
George Bernard Shaw, in his
strange play of the future, Back to
Methusela," pictures an eve machine
similar to the one described. But
he saw it as a contribution to life
in the dim future, DIR. Tesla's will
be in use within n few years.
Telsa is as curious as the things
ak tata
can imagine. as a Martian. For he
has little in common with this con-
gested city and the people around
him.
Lunches on vichy.
As he talked he slipped at a glass
of yichy water. That was his
luncheon. His thin fingers toyed
with the glass and he glanced some.
what disapprovingly at my orange
ade, as IL he thought II a bit too
heavy as food.
He is a tall, gaunt man; he eats
seldom and slightly, and sleeps only
two or three hours a day.
He lives in the utmost seclusion,
giving all his waking time to work.
lie Is a hard man to approach, as
I found during four days Of effort.
Finally, consenting to be inter-
viewed, he stepped from the st.
Regis elevator wearing q cutaway
coat and a brown bowler. He stop
ped In the middle Of the lobby and
inquired Of nobody In particular,
"where is the gentleman who
wishes to see me?".
Then he sent.mindedly led the
way to the lounge, sat down, order
cd his vichy, drew his thin hands
down across his honey face. and
opened fire. As he began to talk
his eyes smouldered.
Paints Vivid Picture.
He presented vivid picture Of
ne world where he lived and Gre
ates, the world that is mans future.
His radio system, his many cleo
tricni inventions, necessary parts
Of the modern world, are already In
the past as far as he Is concerned
I;svine created them, he Is no longer
interested In them.
Tele.vision is the word used 70 de-
scribe the new science OF unlimited
vision. II bears no relation to the
transmitting of Photographic i'm.
pressions by wire or radio.
This subject has pre-occupied me
fpr thirty years." exclaimed Dr.
Tesla, "and I have done much in
venting. designing and experiment.
ing 10 make the seeing of objects
at greater distances possible.
"The problem IL very difficult TO
solve, not 30 much because II calls
for new discoveries. but by reason
~ the fact that the apparatus must
he one Of great completely. Virtual.
" u amounts TO producing some
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