Tesla Promises Four Startling Inventions

Electrical Wizard Says Latest Devices Will Benefit World

Famous Inventor Believes His Newest Product Will Make Him Millionaire — Tells More of Radio Power Transmission

Following is the second of two articles in which Nikola Tesla, famous electrical genius, tells of new marvels to be expected in the near future when the principle of wireless power transmission is applied commercially.

New York. — Nikola Tesla, electrical genius who has seen many of his scientific predictions come true, told The United Press today that he is on the verge of announcing a new invention of incalculable benefit to the whole world.

“It is something overwhelmingly greater than all my other inventions,” he said.

“With four new inventions I will startle the world. I am perfectly confident they will make me many times a millionaire. Then I will apply on a commercial scale some of my other inventions, such as the transmission of power by wireless.”

He would not give any hint of his new invention, but talked enthusiastically of some of the benefits to be derived from application of wireless power transmission.

Tells of Azores Plan

“Once I planned to put up a generating plant in the Azores,” he said. “There is about 50,000 horsepower of electrical energy available there. I could have illuminated the whole Atlantic at night with that energy. The light would be like the aurora borealis. It would be weak, but sufficient to recognize objects. Think of the benefit to navigation.

“That’s a practical application of wireless power transmission. I believe the time will come when all countries will be illuminated at night. Think how that would be in war. Think how it would prevent crime — for night is a breeding place for crime.”

The famous inventor, whose thin, austere features bear considerable resemblance to Henry Ford’s, spoke quietly and earnestly of how the same principle would affect flying.

“Airplanes would not have to have gasoline motors. They would be able to soar high on power drawn from a generating station on land. They would have an unlimited cruising radius.”

International Complications

“International complications,” according to Tesla, have prevented application of the principle heretofore.

“The power would go all through the world, into every country,” he explained. “We can’t do that yet. You know what international complications have resulted from radio transmission — and the energy used in radio transmission is only a fraction of that which will be transmitted throughout the world by my power generating station.

“I can prevent the power from being stolen. A very clever electrician might be able to steal some of the power, but he would have to spend perhaps $100 to steal $1 worth. But it would be dishonest. Only persons equipped with my individualizing apparatus would be able to take the power.”

Tesla told how he once tried to demonstrate his principle on a smaller scale — one without “international complications.” He erected a generating plant on Long Island in 1901 to furnish sufficient power to give light in any part of the world where a man had the “individualizing” equipment to receive it.

“That was a very useful application,” he said.

“What prevented the demonstration? It was this. I had expended $750,000 at my own expense. I had no more money. The panic came. It was too far ahead, and there were none but doubters around.”