Science Brevities (Commentary on Tesla's Radiant Energy Ideas)

"Unless, we are entirely wrong in our premises," says The Electrical World and Engineer, "we think Mr. Tesla is mistaken in his ideas of the mechanism of transmitting electric radiant energy from one planet to another. We hope that Mr. Tesla will publish a precise description of the phenomena which he observed, and which led him to suppose that ultraterrean causes were at work. From his well-known experimental skill, a description of his observations before some scientific body would doubtless be extremely interesting. Our readers can not but agree to some extent with the editorial article in the New York Tribune, which, speaking for the lay public, ventures to say: 'It is to be regretted that the first news of the incident was not given to a scientific society of standing, rather than to a philanthropic organization or an ordinary newspaper.'"