Leslie's Weekly March 18, 1897 Teslaâ€™s New World. Tlrrs revolving globo generates every moment enough elee trlclty, ll lt could- bc stored in batteries, to run all the maehin- ery ol the world _for tho balance of time. At the North Pole this electricity stroarrrs ol! in beautiful rod ribbons called the aurorns, and wo me thisphaaoumnon on aooount of highly attenuated condition of the atmosphere. â€˜But everywhere, as high as the air reaches, amund me mum this immense wealth of nature, yet man, ln`his blindness and punines, continumu to manufacture with his llttla dynamos what nature has plans! bcfore him in such abundance. He does not ncod to manufact- uro another sparlr; he needs only tense an lnllnlwslrnal fraction ol what is already made and tho world of intelligence will bc- como- n whispering-gallery, and the world of his machinery will rnow lu ltsappolntcfl motion out ol the forces of the invisible mr. l-â€˜or more than ten years scientists havelknown that man was wasting his time and energy burning coal and wood, dcnudlng ha mme., lmpomanmg his wa, ma blaolzeningthe ul- of bg, cities, had their, _with all his boasted speed, to move compâ€-._ tlvcly ai a cripple. A few of them knew and one or them, Nikola Tesla, was hold enough to say that he-oonld change gn this. Well, _it ha.mâ€˜t yet been changed, but while I was in his laboratory the other day he looks,l.up from one of hls machines with the conddence of Archimedes lightiaghlshoe. â€œI-have found theiwny of my dream and will noon show it to the world." Mr. Tesla, as is well known, has hatnesed Niagara andnow he ls read to harnem the globe. _ A few hundred feet â€˜fn_ the air, just above what is known as the magnetic disturbance 'of the earthâ€™s surface, the electric waves run in long, straight lines, They are milled the Hertzlan waves, after young Hertz, their dlscoverer. These waves are, in fact, found everywhere in the air, but up there they`cs.n`lu= used without the danger of local dLsturoance,-and Mr. Mala has, by along series ofexperiments, learned to take hold of them and dash a light precisely as asunbeam is dashed from a rzalrror. He has also learned to throw the electric energy of thae waves into ,n battery and turn a distant macbinmeonnectÃ©d with this bar,- tery by _a wire. Mr. Tesla has a machine in his laboratory, that he calls an oscillator, that generates these waves and projects- theni into the atmosphere just as nature does. â€œfith this oscil- latorhe has succecdesl in making every calculation necessary to flash a message without a wire 'to any part of the earth, or to nike the elrctrlcwavas generated by the great power of â€˜Ilagurn and grind wht-at ln Argentina, or run the trolley-carsln Bydngg This is no longer speculation. but science, and with time and capital such a gigantic scale will be realized. lvhnt is necessary is to build here and there, on the high points of tho earth, tall towers and putlnwthe wpxof chase tower-g mu. shines to gather and focus thwe wave, just as the mirror ,gnth~ ers and focnsm the sunbeaxns. Mr. Tesla said to me that, with a tower tall enough and with machines big enough, he could send a rnesage from New York to London without a wire, but for transrnlttlngvelectrlc energy for running machinery at this dis. tance it would require n series of towers. _But there never will be any accnsity for running machinery at that longdistance from the source of energy. It is over long distances that we want to telegraph. Withsnch a station at New York not only could we talk to Europe without wires. but every ship on the Atlantic could communicate with us, and assistance could be rendered to any one of tln~xn in di_~rtrÂ¢-xr. The sons would be robbed of over hal( their terrors. But this moans of communi- cation would render it irnposaihle for a few persons to conceal important information long enough- to take advantage of the telegraph or cable news has been concealed, but e. tall Lower flnshing its mcmigcs on me city would protect the public and would irnmenscly help nations w readily understand each other in an inwrnatlonzfl crisis tlrreatenln1gv'sJ'. It is now knownltlint light is sound carried to a point of vibration beyond hearing. There are scientists, and among them lllr. Tesla, who believe that the two terms mhy be con- vertible-thnt is to say, that we might take a snnbeam and so graduate it down as to hear something obthe terrillc storms that are constantly sweeping oxar tha.tlr1mina.zâ€™y, So it may notbe impcmihlo to attach tho telephone and phonograph to these wnvw that may bo made to blink around the globe as tho wink- ing diamonds in the girdle of a woman's waist. lf we ever talk and sing across the wide seas this is possibly the only way, for it should be understood that wires can be distributed from these high 'stations into every house. Mr. Tesla has gono so far as to say that it IBVPOQIDIG to com- municate with other plrmets of our system by throwing gigantic letters with tluse tall-tower lights on the face of the earth. This is downright dreaming, and here we part company with this gfwh WWE! 6f S'~"@"â‚¬@- D. F. S12 Cham.