The Tesla Electrical Oscillator - Editorial (Nov. 11, 1893)

On another page we give a brief description of one form of Mr. Tesla's mechanico-electric oscillator, which formed part of his exhibit in Chicago. It would be hardly possible at this moment to foresee the ultimate effect which this latest work of Mr. Tesla will have upon the practical development of the electrical industry. Mr. Tesla is very sanguine, and if only part of his hopes are realized, its importance will not be long in making itself felt. The production of electrical currents in general with simpler apparatus than heretofore employed, and to all appearances with a more economical one, is certainly an achievement to be hailed by all who have the welfare of the industry at heart; while the maintenance of oscillations of constant period which may now be obtained by Mr. Tesla's apparatus in a positive manner, without the objectionable, older methods, is a result which scientific men certainly cannot fail to appreciate. We are now on the eve of witnessing the carrying out of some of Mr. Tesla's ideas on a grand scale in the work at Niagara - ideas advanced more than five years ago - and we have cause to feel certain that practical results will shortly come of this latest work. We are thus strengthened in our conviction, long since expressed, that practical results will also follow in the line of economical light production, now that Mr. Tesla has provided more perfect apparatus for the investigation of the phenomena which are associated with his name.