Tesla Was Right About the Atom

Methods of discovering, identifying and measuring metallic deposits in the earth may present serious financial problems. Of devices used with excellent results, one, it is said, "detects wave lengths given off by the ores and transforms them into sound."

Each element has its particular wave length — gold, silver, copper.

The new contraptions might multiply enormously the problem of too much silver.

And, most disturbing to Uncle Sam and France, sitting on the world's two biggest piles of gold, the gold standard might suddenly find itself disturbed by unexpected gold discoveries.

The source of the Incas gold supply, which was gigantic, was never won from those ancients, even by the most cruel torture. It might be found now. scientifically.

Professor Compton, winner of the Nobel prize for physics, hopes to harness the atom. That is the power that holds tiny electrons close to the neucleus, as they revolve around it, one billionth of an inch from each other, several trillion times in a second.

More than 20 years ago when laymen knew less about the atom Nikola Tesla, holding up a small wine glass, in the old Delmonico restaurant at Twenty-sixth st. and Fifth av., said, "if the energy locked up in the atoms of that glass could be released it would run all the machinery in the United States."

Now scientists know he was right.