Transcends Faraday and Edison — Tesla's Discovery Tells of Power Transmission

New York — When Nikola Tesla, eminent Jugoslavian physicist, announced on his 79th birthday that his newest discovery was his "greatest achievement in the field of engineering," he was in no way exaggerating. He had accomplished something that even the famous Faraday could not foretell, nor did Edison ever succeed in accomplishing.

Tesla has made an apparatus by which mechanical energy can be transmitted to any part of the earth with practical possibilities in the navigation of ships, and the locomotion of automobiles and trucks by electric drive.

The machine does all this without the use of a commutator, such as a wire, cable, etc.

He says: "I not only produce current in one direction without a commutator, but I also make this current almost as steady and continuous as that from a battery. I can obtain any tension I desire within reasonable limits by merely employing a greater number of turns in the circuit."

Tesla experiments in transmitting mechanical vibrations through the earth (called telegeodynamics by him) were roughly described as a sort of "controlled earthquake."

In war time specially equipped bombs could be planted on one side of a continent and set off by an electric current sent through the earth from the other side of the continent.

Tesla is shown explaining the invention to the press on his 79th birthday.