A Brilliant Lecture from Mr. Tesla

We are pleased to note in the cable dispatch this week the cordial reception of Mr. Tesla in England, and the widespread interest attracted by his extraordinary experiments shown in the lecture at the Royal Institution. Our readers will remember the excitement caused by the first exhibition of his remarkable work before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, as well as the preliminary account of his wonderful experiments that was published in The Electrical World very nearly a year ago. Mr. Tesla has opened a new field of electrical research, one which promises both important theoretical and practical results. Sensational as some of the experiments appear, Mr. Tesla is persistently working in the direction of their practical application, never losing sight, in the brilliancy of the theoretical possibilities, of the application of the principle involved to the service of mankind. It is difficult now to estimate the value of his researches, for as yet much of his most important work has not been made public, but his friends know and appreciate the intensely practical turn that his later work has taken. Mr. Tesla has for some years worked very quietly and unostentatiously, and it is only recently that the world has waked up to the importance of what he has accomplished.