Tesla's Pretentious Predictions

In the current number of Success Nikola Tesla dips into the future as to what science has in store for mankind. Some of his predictions are as follows:

A system of wireless telegraphy by which a message can be sent clear around the world.

Electrical production of ozone for sterilizing water, to rid it of its many impurities.

The manufacture of artificial food by oxidized hydrogen.

The flying machine will be a fact. It will not bring universal peace, as some suppose. Some nation will rule the air as well as the sea.

Future developments will tend to diminish the number of individuals engaged in battle. This will bring into use a machine which can be operated by the fewest possible individuals.

Perfection of the telautomaton, a machine having all its bodily movements controlled from a distance, without wires. Telautomatics are applicable to any machine that moves on the land, in water or in the air.

The transmission of electrical energy through the earth without a wire.

A system to draw energy from the sun.

The electrolytic process of extracting iron from ore, and molding it into required forms without fuel consumption.

The electrolytic manufacture of aluminum and its gradual extermination of copper and, possibly, iron.

A self-acting engine capable of deriving energy from its own motion.