Nikola Tesla and Posterity

Nikola Tesla tells a Chicago paper: "I want to go down to posterity as the founder of a new method of communication. I do not care for practical results in the immediate present. Where I have time I stop to develop the application of the principles that I have announced, but that is a part of the work which it is usually safe to leave to others. They will do it because there is money in it. For myself I am content to find the new principles through the knowledge of which the applications become possible." Tesla's imperishable fame is assured if he can get posterity to accept his own estimate of himself.

JOHN SMITH.