Dispensing with the Carbon Thread

It will be a strange coincidence if an electrician has found out a way of dispensing with the carbon thread in the glass bulb just at the time the United States Court has conceded to Edison's companies the monopoly of that hitherto essential feature in incandescent electric lighting, that is, otherwise than by the arc lamp. But it looks like it. The journals devoted to the discussion of electrical topics and processes are fairly bubbling over with excitement at the alleged discovery of a man named Nikola Tesla that these lamps can be constructed without wires. — Chicago Tribune.