A New, Wonderful Power

Nikola Tesla, seventy-seven today, scientist who at times has been called a madman a.d a wizard, has lived to see very many of his things that were scouted became accepted as scientific dogma. His claim now is that, within a year, he will publish the findings of 35 years of research relating to a new source of energy so vast and so revolutionary in effect that, in spite of all his wonderful accomplishments, he will be remembered for that alone. He says the nature of the new form of energy is "undreamed of," that the sun has something to do with it and that the energy would be available anywhere over the earth's surface and in illimitable quantities. The primary cost of the energy will be high, but once the apparatus is installed, the cost of production will be negligible and the machine will last 500 years.

Tesla is positive that he is right on this subject and disregardful of doubting Thomases, however learned they may be.

The idea that the future can not be as good as the past has no basis in history. Man's view generally is so restricted and his imagination so imperfect that it forms a poor basis for considering the future. Tesla has accomplished so much that it would be difficult to gainsay anything he predicts with such positiveness.