Miniature Quakes May Carry Messages to Ends of Earth

Tesla, at 79, Calls Invention His "Greatest Achievement" — New Electrical Principle Also Revealed.

From the New York Bureau
of the BUFFALO EVENING NEWS.

NEW YORK, July 11. — The discovery of the "art of tele-geo-dynamics," or the propagation of mechanical impulses to the far ends of the earth, which can be used as an unfailing means of communication anywhere on the terrestrial globe, as a guide for ships at sea and as an indicator of where the mineral wealth of the world lies stored, was announced Wednesday by Dr. Nikola Tesla.

The machine by which this is accomplished was called by Dr. Tesla "my best achievement as an engineer." He spoke at a press conference lasting six hours at the Hotel New Yorker. It was the inventor's 79th birthday.

Dr. Tesla also disclosed his invention of an induction motor which provides direct current without commutators, a thing which he said "no competent engineer" would believe possible.

Upsets Einstein's Theory.

Dr. Tesla's workshop was revealed as containing also a new kind of motor driven by "cosmic particles" for the sun. These particles, he said, strike the earth at a speed 50 times greater than the speed of light, thus upsetting Dr. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

Dr. Tesla made his pronouncements as of facts accomplished which would be seen within the year. When asked for a demonstration he refused to show his models or to tell where his laboratory work was done. All he would say was that he had a wealthy backer who would soon build a plant.

Of the direct current motor without commutators, the scientist said all physicists since Faraday had said it was impossible. He believed the motor would prove useful in applying electric drive to gasoline automobiles and trucks.

Like Earthquake Waves.

When pressed for a description of the effects which make up "the art of tele-geo-dynamics," Dr. Tesla likened the waves which his machine would originate and propagate through the earth to earthquake waves, only his waves were of much smaller amplitude. These waves lost little or none of their power with distance, he said. The greatest distance to which he had tried out the carrying power of the waves through the earth, he said, was six miles, but he felt sure they would reach to any point on the terrestrial globe. He emphasized the fact that they were mechanical and not electrical impulses, and that they were not intended for the transmission of power.

The first practical use which the scientist envisions for the waves is communication. It will matter not where a person is, on land or sea, if he is equipped with a smaller receiving set which he can carry in his pocket he will be able to hear messages sent from any part of the world.

Ghetto Alarmed.

Dr. Tesla said his machine consisted of a cylinder of finest steel, suspended in mid-air by a type of energy which was old in principle but which had been amplified by a secret principle and a stationary part.

"I have found means for impressing upon the floating part," he said, "powerful impulses which react on the stationary part and, through it, transmit energy to the earth." That was about all he would say about it.

Scientist Tesla's revelation alarmed a downtown Ghetto today. The first reaction was startled curiosity about the location of his secret laboratory, which supposedly still houses his "earthquake" machine.

The inventor, whose 700 basic patents include widely used methods of large-scale distribution of electricity, assumed the aspect of a sinister wizard when he confessed that in his bony, wedge-shaped head started the Houston street earthquake of 37 years ago.

One day violent temblors shook a neighborhood. They centered, mysteriously, in one building. People were thrown into panic. Firemen and police responded to alarms.

"Can Shake City to Pieces."

Suddenly the vibrations stopped. Dr. 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 quakemaker could shake a whole city to pieces.

Dr. Tesla contended that his "cosmic" machine, if perfected, would supply enough power for New York city from the cosmic particles striking one square foot.

The relativitist theory holds that light, traveling 182,000 miles a second, is the greatest velocity. Tesla said the theory is a "mass of errors," and that science had overlooked cosmic particles by concentrating upon cosmic rays.