Nikola Tesla Will Destroy an Army a Minute

Twenty Million Horse Power Generator to Fight the Battles of the Future.

That present methods of warfare will be displaced by the use of electric waves projected through the air with effect sufficient to destroy an entire army in the space of a few minutes was the assertion of Nikola Tesla in an address delivered before the Entertainment Club at the Waldorf-Astoria last night. A twenty million horse power energy source will develop this electric force, he continued, its generating power in turn being drawn from the waterfalls of the country.

"With the age of great economies upon which we now are entering," he said, "it will be held wasteful to construct at great cost battle ships which are fit for active service only a few years. The battles of the future will be fought through the air. Further, there will be the creation of a system of wireless telephony which will render it possible to hold communication not only with every corner of the world, but with the other planets."

Commenting upon this picture of the future. Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee said: —

"Well, all the naval and army officers of the future will have to do, evidently, in the light of the developments which Mr. Tesla promises, will be to sit down and fight their battles with kid gloves."