Tesla Talks Again

Nikola Tesla, who has turned up in Denver, the other day spared of his valuable time a sufficient amount for a statement, for publication, of his opinion of Marconi’s system of wireless telegraphy, and of his own intentions of doing in the same line. He remarked, from the lofty scientific height which he occupies, that the Marconi system and all other systems of wireless telegraphy with which experiments have thus far been made, are defective because no operations can be conducted with them where there is another inductive instrument within a radius of two or three hundred miles. Moreover, the Marconi system is too slow, in Mr. Tesla’s opinion, as by means of it only about twelve words a minute can be transmitted.

“There is really nothing novel, you understand, about what Marconi is doing,” said the great Tesla. “The experiments are interesting. That is all.” Of course, Mr. Tesla has overcome the defect which he mentioned, and he says he hopes to perfect a system by means of which 1,500 or 2,000 words a minute can be transmitted. He will have something more to say shortly.

That he will soon have something to show; that he intends to do something for the public to witness, he has not announced.