Tesla's Wizard Work

His Oscillator Produces a Harmless Current of Eight Million Volts.

The current issue of The Electrical Review of New York contains the first elaborate description published of experiments carried on in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory, demonstrating his recently announced discoveries in the application of electricity to commercial purposes without the use of conducting wires.

The experiments involve handling currents up to 8,000,000 volts, produced by his perfect oscillators, with entire safety. Photographs of experiments actually performed make it appear that not only can the energy be transmitted in this manner, but also directed to any point desired, regardless of distance and environment.

In one illustration the inventor receives the electrical waves from a distance and develops a pressure of 500,000 volts in a coil which he holds in his hand, preserving himself against injury by maintaining a fixed position on the electrical wave, where the pressure developed is small.

Another photograph shows an assistant receiving in his body the currents from an electrical oscillator, which pass through his body and make a metal bar glow in his hands, also lighting a vacuum tube on the ceiling.