Tesla's Wireless Tower

Unique Structure on Long Island Will Be in Touch with All Parts of the World.

The Tesla central power plant and transmission tower for the transmission of wireless world telegraphy is nearing completion. It is located at Wardenclyffe, L. I.

The structure is a pyramidal tower of octagonal shape. The height is 185 feet, and its promoters declare that it emits a transmission wave complex of a total maximum of 10,000,000 horsepower, one per cent. of which would encircle the globe.

This is but the first of a number of towers to be placed over the world, each one to be near some great commercial center, for the transmission of world messages. Each tower can operate hundreds of millions of pocket-size instruments that can be set up anywhere on ocean, mountain, or desert, and there will receive any messages intended for it. The entire population of the world will then be in direct communication.

The value of such an instrument can be better understood when it is realized that if it fulfills its claims it will entirely do away with the possibilities of Robinson Crusoes on desert islands. Hereafter no explorer will be cut off from civilized communication as were Livingstone and Stanley in darkest Africa.

The ice-bound Klondikers and the intrepid Polar explorers will soon be in constant communication with the entire world, as will be all vessels in any sea.

The completion of the system will revolutionize military tactics. The Russian-Japanese war may mark the end of the old way of fighting. The next war may be entirely based en the use of the Tesla wireless telegraphy towers.