A Great Discovery

TESLA'S SYSTEM OF CONVEYING ELECTRICITY WITHOUT WIRES.

Air and the Earth Are the Only Conductors He Will Use, And It Is Said to Have Reached a Stage Where It Is Commercially Successful — Pressure of 2,500,000 Volts.

New York, October 26 — Nikola Tesla, the electrician, describes in today's issue of the Electrical Review a possibility in electric power transmission. His inventions for transmitting electricity at high pressure over long distances have been successfully applied at many natural sources of power. Probably the most important of these plants in the United States is at Niagara Falls, costing over $6,000,000 to install, which supplies electricity to many large factories and supplies electric power for running the trolley lines of the city of Buffalo, twenty-six miles distant.

With the article an illustration is presented showing streams of electricity issuing from a single terminal, giving an estimated electrical pressure of two and a half million volts. The Electrical Review comments upon Mr. Tesla's novel and startling ideas as follows:

"Tesla now proposes to transmit without the use of wires through the natural media — the earth and the air — great amounts of power to distances of thousands of miles. This will appear a dream — a tale from the Arabian Nights. But the extraordinary discoveries Tesla has made during the number of years of incessant labor which are authoritatively described in our present issue, make it evident that his work in this field has passed a stage of laboratory experiment, and is ready for a practical test on an industrial scale. The success of his efforts means that power from such source as Niagara will become available in any part of the world regardless of distances.