Progress of Mr. Tesla’s High Frequency Work

The Electrical World says: “During the past six months, Mr. Nikola Tesla has been steadily at work developing the beautiful principles that he enunciated in his striking lecture before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In his skilful hands the experiments have extended far beyond their merely theoretical importance in the direction of important practical applications. Part of the fruits of his industry has already appeared in his method patents on incandescent lighting, another patent on condensers, and diverse applications that are now in the Patent Office. Many of the practical difficulties that at first appeared have been overcome, and we may ere long see the results in commercial work. Meanwhile the transmission of power has not been forgotten, and some interesting improvements in that line may soon be expected, especially as the use of the methods embodied in Mr. Tesla’s early patents has recently made such a sensation abroad. About the middle of January, Mr. Tesla expects to sail for Europe to deliver, at the urgent request of his English friends, a lecture on his high frequency researches, and to look after his foreign interests generally. The trip will be a flying one, of only a couple of months, as the pressure of work at home forbids a long absence. On his return, some of the latest commercial developments of his work may be expected to appear as promptly as circumstances will permit. The revolutionary character of his methods will make any extensive application of them of unique interest.