Famous Inventor Confesses to Making Earthquake Which Rocked New York; Ghetto Folks Alarmed

Famous Inventor Confesses to Making Earthquake Which Rocked New York; Ghetto Folks Alarmed

New York, July 11 (UP) — Nikola Tesla, on his birthday celebration, said that he started an earthquake which rocked a downtown ghetto today. Most immediate reaction to the famous inventor’s announcement of three “momentarily disastrous” discoveries was startled curiosity about the behavior of the seismic laboratory which apparently still houses his earthquake machine.

Tesla refused point blank to disclose where he works — the world’s accidents and in private must be kept. In addition to the mysterious “quake maker” he previously described during a scientific meet in Europe, Tesla’s workshops and experiments are continuing with a new sort of motor driven by “cosmic particles” from the soil, and a mechanism that sends vibrations rippling through the earth, as a new form of communication.

The inventor whose the work is patently include widely and multiple to large-scale distribution of electricity mentioned on his 78th birthday the advent of a miniature “time” when he confessed that he an hour, several hundred feet short, at the Houston street earthquake of 50 years ago.

People were thrown into panic. Firemen and police responded to alarms. Suddenly the vibrations stopped. Tesla said the “quake” ceased when he snatched up a hammer and knocked a gadget from the wall of his laboratory. His workshop then was in the most affected building where it is now he refused to reveal.

The gadget, he said, was a vibration amplifying mechanism set to harmonize with the building’s vibrations. He said a small quake maker could shake a whole city to pieces.

The inventor already has in his laboratory a “cosmic” machine, he disclosed. He said it was driven by “cosmic particles” which strike the earth at speeds 50 times greater than light. He contended that such machines, if perfected, will supply enough power for New York City from the cosmic particles striking one square foot.

The vibratory theory holds that light traveling 186,000 miles a second is the greatest velocity. Tesla said the theory is a result of an “error” and the science has overcome all cosmic particles in concentration, often inside gaps.