Mr. Nikola Tesla's Remarkable Demonstrations

During the past year the electrical world has been much interested in the remarkable demonstrations of the possibilities of electricity that have been made by Mr. Nikola Tesla. Attention was first attracted to Mr. Tesla's work by a lecture which he delivered at Columbia College, New York City, in May, 1891. This lecture showed that the researches of Mr. Tesla were very exhaustive. In January last he sailed for Europe with invitations to lecture before the leading scientific organizations of the continent, and shortly after reaching England he gave a series of experiments in his lectures before the English Institute of Electrical Engineers, which received the highest commendation because of the depth of his researches. Probably no American electrician or scientific man was ever received by the scientific men of Europe with such honors as were conferred upon Mr. Tesla.

Mr. Tesla was born in Servia (sic), but has been in the United States many years and has been connected with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, making extensive researches in connection with the alternating current. Mr. Tesla has demonstrated a number of facts of much importance as to the nature of electricity, and in his experiments has demonstrated in actual practice some of his deductions. Much interest has been attracted by his operating a motor on one wire and even without connecting it with a generator, and in the matter of electric lighting he has produced some startling results which open a field for wide research and give promise of remarkable developments in the near future in the improvement of electric lighting.