Nikola Tesla Sues Marconi for Full Wireless Control

Serbian Inventor Claims to Have Patent Which Will Confine Any Amount of Electrical Energy Without Use of Insulation.

Nikola Tesla has appealed to the law to declare that he and not Willlam Marconi is the inventor of wireless telegraphy. Many millions in money and world-wide control of the commercial use of the wireless transmission of energy are involved in the struggle.

The suit has been brought in the United States District Court here in the name of the Nikola Tesla Company, of which the Serbian Inventor is the President, and to which he has transferred all of his fundamental patent rights in wireless telegraphy. The defendant in the action is the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

Mr. Tesla announced last night, in connection with the suit, that he recently has been granted a patent by the United States Government which will supersede and revolutionize all present forms and applications of wireless telegraphy and will enable him and the financiers who are associated with him to obtain and keep a hold on commercial wireless telegraphy, no matter what may be the outcome of the litigation he has begun against the Marconi interests. 

Mr. Tesla, when seen last night at the Waldorf-Astoria, appeared very confident as to the outcome of his suit to wrest the wireless patents from his Italian rival, and enthusiastic over the possibilities of his latest patent, by which he expects to send wireless messages with an intensity and to a distance impossible under any of the present systems.

"My earlier experiments in Colorado in 1899," he said last night "demonstrated that I was on the right track, and with a transmitter of my invention of not more than thirty inches in diameter I succeeded in concentrating and applying an amount of electrical energy twice as strong as is contained in an ordinary | stroke of lightning. "Since then I have pursued my experiments with that one point in view, namely, the discovery of a way of concentrating and absolutely con trolling electrical energy. This result has been attained under the workings of the apparatus for which the Government granted me a patent last December. "I now claim that I can confine any amount of electrical energy.