Tesla's Million-Dollar Mystery

Near Shoreham, on Long Island, stands a great lattice-work tower nearly two hundred feet high, with a copper mushroom for a top. This is Nikola Tesla's great electric tower, whose purposes have never been accurately known. He has asserted that he was prepared to send electric signals by actually increasing and diminishing the electric charge of the earth, and the tower has been generally connected with this assertion. The tower and the laboratory with it, tho representing a large outlay, have remained idle for years. Of late there have been rumors that some use, either practical or experimental, was to be made of the plant, and one or two journals have published articles filled with somewhat fantastic predictions, seemingly divorced from clear explanation. On the other hand, Export American-Industries (New York, March) calls the plant "Tesla's Million-Dollar Folly." Under this head it says:

Editor note: The remainder of this article is a reprint of the above-mentioned article from Export American Industries of March, 1916 and is intentionally not duplicated here.