New Invention by M. Nikola Tesla

He Declares that He Has Found a Perfect Electric Insulator.

NEW YORK, Friday. — The latest startling announcement of the inventor Nikola Tesla is that he has discovered a perfect insulation for electricity. He said to me to-day, when I called on him at the Waldorf-Astoria, that the idea was suggested to him by Professor Dewar, of the Royal Institute, in 1893. He had been working on it ever since, and had just obtained a patent.

The plan is by a chemical process to freeze a mixture of water and sawdust in a thin metal tube about the wire carrying the electric current. Mr. Tesla declares that electricity will in this way be transmitted from Niagara Falls to the Pacific Coast, or through the ocean from New York to London, with no perceptible loss of power. He asserts that the invention will greatly cheapen electricity, and cause a revolution in industrial affairs. — Daily Mail.