How Tesla Will End War

He Has a New Invention So Terrible that He Claims It Will Insure Universal Peace.

ELECTRIC WAVES THE PRINCIPLE.

Nikola Tesla made public yesterday his latest discovery and invention.

It concerns war, and is intended not only to be useful, but will make war so terrible that it will insure peace between all the nations.

Mr. Tesla’s latest invention consists of a combination of his devices for charging air currents with electricity of enormous voltage. This will reach out many miles.

The idea of the invention came to Mr. Tesla years ago, but it took the war with Spain to demonstrate the usefulness of his scheme.

In Mr. Tesla’s laboratory in West Houston street a working model has been erected and can be controlled at will by the inventor by simply turning a crank in another room.

Air, earth or water is all that is needed to make the connection between the operator and the moving mechanism, be it vessel or wagon or something else, and even some of these might be done away with under certain circumstances.

In the model which Mr. Tesla has the power which controls the moving mechanism is electricity, and Mr. Tesla declares that he can exercise the control from as far away as a telescope could enable the operator to keep watch of the vessel. But it is not necessary to use electricity even to exercise such control. With devices which any expert mechanic could make the same control could be exercised by the notes of a whistle or by other means which would produce measurable vibrations. Electricity is, however, the necessary agent by which the primary control of the machinery within the controlled object is made obedient, although beyond the primary device steam, compressed air or any other source of power can be used. In the model vessel Mr. Tesla uses a combination of storage batteries and clockwork to produce the movements.

The use of these, however, is but a minor detail of mechanics. Balloons can be controlled and directed as readily as any other vessel, and sent about at will, or caused to drop explosives whenever the operator might desire, and yet be free from earth.

The inventor intended to test his machine on Cervera’s fleet when it was cooped up in Santiago harbor, but he was delayed in making the necessary arrangements.