Power by Wireless

Nikola Tesla, inventive genius and "dreamer," says man soon will transmit power by wireless. The airplane need carry no fuel, nor the steamship," nor the locomotive. The mill will grind wheat by power generated 5000 miles away. He says, in the American Magazine:

"Power can be, and at no distant date, will be, transmitted without wires for all commercial uses, such as the lighting of homes and the driving of airplanes. In recent years I have devoted myself to the problem of the wireless transmission of power, and I have discovered the essential principles, and it only remains to develop them commercially."

Tesla's confidence in his ability to go through with his ideas to a successful: commercial conclusion shows all the force of a beautiful optimism — and we know that Tesla is a thoroughly practical "dreamer."

"When this is done, you will be able to go anywhere in the world-to the mountain top over-looking your farm, to the arctic, or to the desert, and set up a little equipment that will give you heat to cook with and light to read by. This equipment will be carried in a satchel not as big as the ordinary suitcases. In years to come wireless lights will be as common on the farms as ordinary electric lights are nowadays in the cities."

Ah, the troubles of an explorer made easy — "Put your power in your purse," and climb Mt. Everest, dally around the poles, sail over the Andes, loop Vesuvius, Run your auto the Tesla way. Train your tractor from a faraway power plant.

Things as strange have happened.