Tesla at the Top

After a Bitter Struggle He Is Now the King of Inventors.

FOUGHT HARD FOR RECOGNITION.

An Interesting Interview Secured in Ilis New York Laboratory.

HE TAKES PICTURES WITH A NEW LIGHT

It is now generally agreed among electrical men that Nikola Tesla is the greatest electrical inventor of the age. In all his works he has conclusively shown himself to be far ahead of anyone else in originality of thought, in his conception of the wonderful possibilities of electricity and in their development.

More than ten years ago, even before he was working in Pittsburg, his mind was quite positive that, in his invention of the now well known Tesla motor, and the equally important Polyphase system of long distance power transmission, had opened to the electrical industry a new and most important field of exploitation. Then, however, he could find few people who believed in him, and many looked upon his schemes and plans as grand and wonderful Imaginations of a theorist, but whose Ideas would never stand the test of practicability.

Nevertheless, Mr. Tesla was not discouraged by the criticisms passed upon his work. He was convinced that he was right, and he continued his researches, his experiments and his labors undaunted, knowing that his time to smile would come at last. And it did.

When the gigantic power of the falls. of Niagara began to operate the large generators, ready to distribute electrical energy of 5.000 horse power, it was a great triumph for Tesla. Since then, of course, everybody has come to the conclusion that Mr. Tesla's ideas were correct on that matter, and those who were once known as the most pronounced skeptics are now his staunchest admirers and believers.

Startled London Scientists.

It was long before the triumph at Niagara, however, that Tesla astounded the whole civilized world in another direction, and that was in 1832, when he, a comparative youth, appeared before the Institution of Electrical Engineers of London, England, and showed to some of the most renowned men in electrical science, experiments and phenomenon which they had never dreamed of. He exhibited a motor running on one wire, and also without any connection whatever with the generator, demonstrating the possibility of running motors without wires altogether. He created a sensation when he handled electrical currents of the enormous pressure of 250,000 volts, and his audience was amazed. as they viewed his demonstrations of phosphorescent lighting.

Mr. Tesla repeated that lecture before all the learned societies of Europe, and wherever he went he was received with. the greatest distinction. Honors were showered upon him by the crowned heads. of the old world. Since then the name of this great electrical inventor has become familiar throughout the world, and he is considered the greatest electrical genius of the age.

These wonderful triumphs of the young electrician are always gloried in by people in Pittsburg, because it was here he practically commenced to develop the wonders which have startled the world of late years.

The Dispatch Brought Him Out.

The Dispatch especially takes a great. interest in the career of Tesla, because it was through this paper he first uttered to the world the marvelous ideas

The original was obtained by two seconds' exposure to the light of a single vacuum tube of very small dimensions.

Speaking about this photograph Mr. Tesla remarked that pictures taken by the light of such, tubes show an amount of detail which no picture taken by the sun on flashlight is capable of disclosing.

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