Tesla's Utilization of Electrical Effects and Radiant Energy - Editorial

Mr. Tesla's method of utilizing electrical effects transmitted through earth or air is described in this issue, the description being based on a careful examination of six United States patents issued last week and being largely in the language of the inventor himself. Mr. Tesla has devised a novel method of "effecting during any desired time interval a storage of energy derived from such [long-distance electrical] impulses and utilizing the potential energy so obtained for operating a receiving device." The "storage device" which Mr. Tesla prefers to use is a condenser, which allows the energy of the succeeding impulses to be accumulated for a sufficient length of time and then discharged instantaneously in a manner said to be highly effective. The inventor says that by the use of his invention results hitherto unattainable in utilizing disturbances or effects transmitted very great distances through natural media may be readily attained. Perhaps this means that wireless transmission across the Atlantic is really in contemplation. At any rate, the patents are of great interest and contain within themselves their best interpretation.