A Denial by Nikola Tesla

The expected has happened. A few days ago it was remarked in these columns that it was nearly time for Nikola Tesla, the celebrated Hungarian electrician, to deny the preposterous claims regarding wireless telegraphy which had been ascribed to him. In a card in yesterday's New York Sun he says: "I also desire to say that various alleged interviews which have represented me as prophesying loosely in regard to my achievements in the various uses of electricity were never held." Mr. Tesla is not without full appreciation of his own merits in matters electrical, but it is only fair to say that he is not given to boasting outside the zone of actual achievement. He has accomplished marvels, and if he lives will doubtless accomplish still more; but it seems he did not claim to be able to telegraph from Houston street to Paris without wires.