Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-29 | Page 2 | Will Drive Vast Ships and Railroad Trains

WiLL WIL DRIVE V VAST ASI SHIPS C 1 RAILROAD TRAINS In Inventor Tesia i Tesla sla Proposes to Transmit Electrical Power I j by the Wireless System 1 r 1 1 N W I rut July M. M After P.-After A After r working for or more than Wan th three e years years on the oC bf leirl l I energy energy without wires Nicola Nicolo Tesla has hns announced that that that-he he has has' too h an Invention by which it will be possible not only to send wireless s. s fur messages 3 for thousands of or miles mUes without wires but that he will be bo enabled t to o. o send scud ocean oc an liners to Europe and have ha railroads carry passengers a hundred d miles m-Iles nn an hour by drawing their vcr power from irom tho air Mr Ir Tesla has completed a n. largo large po power er hou house e at on Long LonE Island and Is 18 building others other throughout the countr country and one in Scotland be be- tween which h he 53 says S 'S he intends to s send nd electric currents of ot sufficient voltage to enable steamships and railroads to draw Y all their power I expect expect- t to make a A. complete announcement of oC rn my ray plans plan shortly t Mr r. r Tei Tesla ii Mid said and when I do many man persons will be surprised I have be been n taking out patents on my inventions on the tran transmission of at electrical for or the I past three years but i I did not complete completa t my plans for tor putting them to practical test until r recently My loh plans blanc lins h have a passed ava away beyond th the merel merely speculative c stage stac and in a n very ery short wh while lc will be in thorough working order The Time whole Idea In a n nut nut- shell sheU you OU can cnn say eay Is simply an extension of oC th the tho plan to send tend wireless telegraph messages messages A reporter who ho went to found about 00 00 men working on the Tesla plant The house hous u So s sa Cl t 1 large round Iron structure and looks somewhat like the ordinary gas plant There are arc several poles about sixty feet In height rising from the top of at the thc house and from fromi these the power r will be sent Mr Ir Tesla asserted art d that there thero Is a n similar power in fn Scotland and md said that this one Is la almost entirely completed Other houses arc are being built near Chicago aro and and an i San Francisco We have been Bending wireless me messages for tor long distances from this station sta sta- tion for tor some time Mr Tesla continued but whether we wa arc are going gainS Into the telegraph field on oem a commercial basis I cannot say at present