Nikola Tesla Promises To Light Dark Spot on Moon

It's Part of a Scheme of His for Interplanetary Radio; Distance Means Nothing

Has 4 New Inventions

Tells of Them on 81st Birthday; 2 Nations Honor Him

Some evening not far off, as a new moon sails across the early evening sky, a spot of light may flash In the dark area between the two horns of light that terminate its thin crescent. That spot of light will be the cosmic signature of Nikola Tesla, out of whose mind have blossomed hundreds of inventions.

Dr. Tesla promised the flashes on the moon yesterday afternoon at his eighty-first birthday party at the Hotel New Yorker. The promise came after two European governments awarded him their highest honors and their ministers described him as a timeless citizen of the universe, and he had responded by describing four of his recent inventions, one of which, he said, makes interplanetary communication possible.

Straightens Curved Space

In the first of his four inventions Dr. Tesla straightens out curved space. The relativitists found it necessary to curve the space in the universe and Dr. Tesla asserted that the Newtonian principle of action and reaction being equal caused matter to react back on the curved space and straightened it out.

The second invention has to do with cosmic rays. Dr. Tesla holds these are not cosmic at all but the emanation of particles from the upper realms of the atmosphere on which he has been working since 1896. Here there are generated vast potentials, so great that the earth travels through space with an electric charge of 216,000,000,000 volts, but he is interested in the difference of 2,000,000,000 volts potential between the night side and the day side, the night side carrying the higher voltage.

The third invention is the one for which Dr. Tesla is willing to sacrifice his life — interplanetary communication. He has, he says, perfected the means of transmission of a narrow beam in a way that makes distance no factor at all but the problem that remains to be solved is how to have the inhabitants on the other planets receive the message or power he would send. The moon stunt is one solution.

The fourth Invention seems very prosaic. It has to do with vacuums. Dr. Tesla insists he can produce a vacuum with less in it than anyone heretofore has succeeded in doing. He will chase the last lonely atom out of his vacuum by means of electrical repulsion at the speed of light. Just how is still his secret.

The honors bestowed on the potential shaker of the universe came yesterday from King Peter of Yugoslavia, who awarded him, through his ambassador, Constantin M. Fotitch, the Minister at Washington, the Golden Cross of the Order of the White Eagle, and from the Republic of Czechoslokakia, which awarded him the Gold Cross of the Order of the White Lion.

The decorations made very little impression on Dr. Tesla. "They mean nothing — take them away," said Dr. Tesla. "The only thing that counts is the good that my work might bring to humanity."