Tesla is to signal to Mars

Tesla is to signal to Mars, according to a two-column letter to the New York Times. He believes that certain electrical disturbances which he observed in the summer of 1889 must have emanated from Mars, but that all doubt in this regard will soon be dispelled. He criticised unfavorably the various methods that have recently been proposed to convey signals to Mars, and offers one of his own which he states is simple in principle, although perhaps not easy of execution. This consists, first, of a circuit properly designed and arranged, with one of its ends connected to an insulated terminal at some height, and the other to earth. Inductively linked with this is another circuit in which electrical oscillations of great intensity are set up, the above combination being known as the Tesla wireless transmitter. By a careful attunement of circuits, and by means of certain methods which he has not yet described, oscillations of transcending intensity can be obtained.