Tesla May Point the Way for Others

Nikola Tesla, who did important work in harnessing Niagara power, thinks he knows how to transmit power, without wires, to any desired distance. He may not actually do it, for he is seventy-nine years old and few great material tasks are accomplished at that age. Even Edison, at eighty, could talk better than he could perform.

But Tesla may point the way for others. Long before the modern talk about "releasing the power in the atom," Tesla sitting in the old Delmonico at 26th street and Fifth avenue, holding a claret glass in his hand — he never drank — said to this writer "If I could release and harness the power that holds together the atoms in that glass it could run half the machinery of the United States."

Men will eventually transmit power through space without wires: and flying machines in that day will pick up the power of hydraulic or other power plants as they fly over them: No heavy load of fuel to carry, no landing to refuel. That will be the beginning of a new flying age.