Without Use of Wires

Nikola Tesla, the Electrician, Announces Startling Possibility in Electric Power Transmission

NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — Nikola Tesla the electrician, describes in the Electrical Review a possibility in electric power transmission that is startling. The announcement is made that by employing apparatus which Tesla had invented, capable of generating electrical pressures vastly in excess of any heretofore used, which are located at natural sources of power, the current can be conducted without the use of wires to a terminal maintained at an elevation where the rarified atmosphere is capable of conducting freely the particular current produced; then at a distant point where the energy is to be used commercially, then maintain a second terminal 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.

The Review comments: "The success of Tesla's efforts means that power from such sources as Niagara will become available in any part of the world, regardless of distance."