Power Transmission by Air Not a Dream

Radio broadcasting from Rio has been heard in Honolulu,. 8,000 miles away. This sets a new record, although the station on Long Island has sent messages 7,000 miles.

Radio is only 25 years old. The Rio message heard in Honolulu was flashed from wires strung between two peaks near the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain. Inventors have just discovered that better results are attained by putting the "aerial" under ground.

This bears out Nikola Tesla's theory. He claims that It is not the radio waves that travel through the ether. following the curvature of the earth, but rather currents that travel through the earth. If he is right we may soon see his dream of transmitting power by radio realized. This will solve a big problem. New York City may get hydro-electric power from Niagara, as Governor Smith proposes, but the cost of transmission equipment is now about $60,000 a mile.