Nikola Tesla's New Light

Said to Equal That of the Sun.

The Inventor Calls It a Perfect Sanitary Lamp.

New York, Jan. 25 — Nikola Tesla has at last perfected his new system of electric lighting — daylight illumination it may be called and he hopes to have it soon introduced into general use. Under a full head of electricity the lamp has the color of ice in the sun. The light is soft and absolutely steady. So diffuse is it that it deceives the eye and at first seems without mach power of illumination.

This is the light — the "perfect sanitary" light, as Tesla calls it — which he has been seeking for. There are neither wires nor carbon filaments to break or burn out. The lamp may be described as a nest of glass tubes bent in rectangular form. Each lamp has about 20 feet of the white flaming tubes.

Into this square coil of hollow glass of the diameter of one's finger, electricity is sent quivering from Tesla's oscillator. Bursting into light it floods the apartment with the clear light of day. It is day-light — not the splendor of the sun but the light of the sun, as on a cloudy day, when one forgets that the sun is shining.

Tesla's oscillator, which he believes is the key for solving the most important electrical problems of the day, causes electrical vibrations of inconceivable speed. These vibrations turn the atoms of the gases in the tubes into, as it were little comets, which shoot through the inclosed space with tremendous rapidity, leaving trains of light behind. The sudden starting and stopping of the current procuces continuous light, neither of the incandescent nor of the are light character, but purely solar. In other words, each lamp is a little sun. The Tesla lamp is not like any of the known lights in use. It seems only a bunch of crystals glowing on the celling at middav.