Tesla in His Work Room

All the apparatus necessary to successfully conduct his experiments, has been received by Nickola Tesla, and his experimental station near the Printers’ Home is rapidly taking on an air of activity. The rough frame structure is filled with dynamos, electric wires, switches, generators, motors, and almost every conceivable invention known to electricians, and through this mass of intricate and dangerous mechanism Mr. Tesla walks as fearlessly as if on the streets of the city. He knows, perhaps, better than anyone else, just how deadly his appliances are, but he works with them without the least fear, though the least bit of carelessness on his part would result in instant and awful death.

He has several assistants, all of whom handle this various electrical appliances with great caution, but Mr. Tesla seems to know the exact condition of every wire and every dynamo in the house. He has no fear of grasping a “live” wire, and handles the powerful machines which are to generate the currents of electricity that are to be transmitted to Pike’s Peak in the form of intelligible messages, without scarcely a thought as to the great danger.

Mr. Tesla’s experiments have not progressed very far, as yet, and though he is averse to talking for publication, it is known that he has done nothing that would warrant him in asserting that wireless telegraphy, as he conceives it, can be devoted to practical use. Mr. Tesla has two little rooms on each side of the main work-room which he has fitted up in a plain manner, and in these he plans out the details of his work and his experiments. The main apparatus is, of course, in the center of the big building, and is very complicated. It was put in place by the assistants under the personal direction of Tesla, and while it is in good order, nothing has been accomplished of enough importance to be given to the public.

Within the next week, however, it is hoped that something tangible will be accomplished, and that Colorado, and Colorado Springs in particular, will again be the center of all eyes in the civilized world, in having been the place where Tesla successfully demonstrated that wireless telegraphy was an assured fact and that electric motive power can be transmitted for a considerable distance without the aid of wires.