Would Put Wires in Cold Storage

N. TESLA HERALDS AN INVENTION TO PREVENT LEAKAGE OF ELECTRICITY.

Process Involves Coating Wires With Ice or Cold Air, but How ’Tis Done Is Unexplained

[Special Associated Press Service.]

New York, Aug. 16. — A patent has been granted to Nikola Tesla for an invention which, if his claims are borne out, will prevent the escape of electricity from a wire.

Tesla’s invention, it is claimed, solves the insulation problem in a simple manner. He insulates the wire by passing through it or near it air kept at a low temperature, producing a coat of ice on the wire, which the inventor finds by repeated and extensive experiments cannot be broken through by the strongest current, and at the same time gives an insulation that costs practically nothing.

By means of this latest discovery the loss of electricity or electrical energy in transmission, it is claimed, can be rendered so small as to be insignificant and that power can be transmitted to a great distance by means of underground wires.