Tesla Claims New Principle

Electrical Journal Says He's Found Secret of Easily Transmitting Great Energy.

New York, Sept. 12 — A new development of a mechanical principle upon which Nikola Tesla is said to have been laboring for some years will be described in the Electrical Review, which will reach the news stands here tomorrow. This latest development in mechanics for which so much is claimed by friends of the inventor is based on the adhesion and viscosity of liquids and gases and is said to afford a novel means of generating and transmitting mechanical power.

Dr. Tesla ast night seemed very optimistic about the results of his long ex- perimentation, but would not discuss the matter for publication. He expressed surprise that any one had heard of his latest work before the appearance of his account of it in the electrical publication.

"The efficacy of the machines Dr. Tesla has constructed on this principle," the Electrical Review will say, "is evidenced by their remarkable performance, small turbines or rotary engines being run at a peripheral speed scarcely more than half of that of reaction turbines, and giving several times the output of the latter."

The article will then go on to describe. a small steam turbine recently exhibited in New York "having a rotor only nine and three-quarters inches in diameter and two inches wide," which was said to have been capable of developing 110 horse-power with free exhaust. This machine, it is further stated, had no blades, vanes, valves or sliding contacts of any kind.

"On account of the great simplicity of this apparatus, reversibility and extraor dinary output," the article continues, "it will undoubtedly find an immense variety of uses, and the commercial world cannot fail to be deeply interested in this new development. The electrical industry in particular should be greatly benefited by this latest effort of Dr. Tesla."

It was said last night that leading financiers are interested in Dr. Tesla's Lew work. Reports of extraordinary horsepower being developed by a machine of next to no weight naturally suggested to the reporter last night to ask Dr. Tesla whether his engine wouldn't be invaluable to aviators. The inventor answered this and other questions, but refused to have the answers printed.