Tesla's Latest Invention - Hopes To Be Able to Communicate by Electricity Throughout the Earth Without Wires

Nikola Tesla feels certain that he has at last perfected a system of telegraphy without wires which will enable him to communicate with any point on the surface of the earth, and perhaps even with the stars, if any beings exist there intelligent enough to receive and return a message.

So far Mr. Tesla has experimented only within limited distances, but the success which he has met with induces him to believe that he has realized his hopes. He has long believed that messages might be sent through the earth without wires, and he has for sev. eral years been working upon his plans.

The necessary energy for performing the work of transmission is secured through the electrical oscillators which he invented, and which are capable of interrupting a current millions of times in a single second. His idea is based upon the elasticity of the static electricity of the earth, and his theory is that if this is disturbed by vibrations at a given point the same vibrations may be felt and recorded at any other given point. He is at work upon machines which are to transmit and receive these vibrations. He says that he has secured excellent results and that he has been able to send messages through twenty miles of earth.

Mr. Tesla thinks that his invention may be of the utmost importance in transmitting news affecting international interests throughout the entire world at the same moment, thus preventing wars and panics. He hopes, also that he may be able by the same method ultimately to transmit power. If communication with the stars is ever established, he is confident that it will be through his method.

In addition to this discovery. Mr. Tesla has been experimenting with light derived from Crookes tubes, and he thinks that he has devised a system which will make them.