To Transmit Electric Power

Tesla Claims to Have Solved the Problem - Will Send It Through Air.

Nikola Tesla describes, in the current issue of The Electrical Review, a possibility in electric power transmission. His inventions for transmitting electricity at high pressure over long distances have been successfully applied at many natural sources of power, notably at Niagara Falls. The announcement is now made that by employing at natural sources of power apparatus which Mr. Tesla has invented capable of generating electrical pressures vastly in excess of any heretofore used, the current can be conducted to a terminal maintained at an elevation where the rarefied atmosphere is capable of conducting freely the particular current produced. At a distant point where the energy is to be used commercially a second terminal is maintained at about the same elevation to attract and receive the current, and to convey it to earth through special means for transforming and utilizing it.

With the article an illustration is presented, showing streams of electricity issuing from a single terminal with an estimated electrical pressure of two and a half million volts. The Electrical Review comments upon Mr. Tesla's article as follows:

"Tesla now proposes to transmit without the use of any wires through the natural media — the earth and the air — great amounts of power to distances of thousands of miles. This will appear a dream — a tale from the "Arabian Nights." But the extraordinary discoveries Tesla has made during a number of years of incessant labor, which are authoritatively described in our present issue, make it evident that his work in this field has passed the stage of laboratory experiment, and is ready for a practical test on an industrial scale. The success of his efforts means that power from such sources as Niagara will become available in any part of the world regardless of distance."