Town Topics - Tesla vs. Marconi

Tesla, America’s Own and Only Non-Inventing Inventor, the Scientist of the Delmonico Café and Waldorf-Astoria Palm Garden, has been at it again. This time the news of young Marconi’s success in telegraphing through space fired Tesla to feats hitherto undreamed of, and he filled columns in the Herald - which paper, I much fear me, inclines to help Tesla make a guy of himself - with profound droolings about volts and resistances and circuits and ampères and things and things. Tesla says he can do everything that Marconi has done. Of course he doesn’t really do them, but that may be because he is afraid someone else may find out how they are done. He knows all about the theory and the practical machinery of Marconi’s messages through miles of space, and could prove it too - if old Bill Jones was alive. Indeed, the actual results of the methods of the two inventors show only this slight difference: Marconi telegraphs through space and Tesla talks through space.