Tesla Signals Mars by Radio

Inventor Believes Future,Communication Among Planets by Such Means Possible.

Nikola Tesla, scientist and inventor, last night expressed his faith in future communication among the planets by means of radio. Commenting on the Marconi interview in London, Mr. Tesla said for the New York American:

"The statement of Mr. Marconi interests me, inasmuch as I recall that in 1900 when I announced the results with my wireless plant in Colorado he claimed it would be 200 years before we would succeed in flashing a signal even across the Atlantic on account of the big wall of water between the American and European continents.

"The truth of the matter is that in 1899. I obtained signals which proved to have emanated from a planet. As I eliminated the effect of the sun, the moon and Venus an my instruments I concluded the source of the electrical disturbance was Mars, which at that time was nearly in opposition. I expressed myself on this subject in the Century Magazine of June, 1900, and in the Harvard Illustrated Magazine in 1906:

"It is difficult for me to see, however, how Mr. Marconi could I have noted such feeble disturbances as I observed with the rough and unresponsive commercial apparatus he is employing. The apparatus I used was millions of times more sensitive, and it was only by resorting to certain methods of magnification that have managed to observe anything at all.

"With my transmitter in Colorado I have produced actions which in their effects on a planet were at least a hundred times greater than obtainable with any wireless plant in existence. And it is by no means impossible that intelligent beings living on Mars might have detected them.

"As to intelligible communication among the planets; the problem of conveying through space knowledge of form has occupied me for years and I have found a solution. But my idea is still in the undeveloped, experimental state."