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Show FAIRY TALES OF SCIENCE. It Is just seventeen jenrs ago that Nikola Tosla mndo his public debut as an inventor Since then he has done some inventing and a lot ot promising He did some more promts-lne promts-lne at a meeting of a branch of tho National Electric Light absociatlon In New York the other night Tho promises prom-ises were of a thrilling character, und jot If there werennv doubters present pres-ent thev refrained from making them selves known Inventor Tesla has a laboratory at wumjaictmEEEBnaaMt w n otcnaamoEi Colorado Springs and thoro he has built a turblno which Is to develop 99 per cent of the steam appllod to It, Instead In-stead of the 60 per cent doveloped In the ordinary waj' a result which he believes will revolutionize mechanics. He Is going to use the earth, too, for the transmission of energy and has a plant on Long Island where oxperl monts with the telephone are being conducted. Ultimately he Intends ot develop an energy of 1,000.000,000 horse-power to be used In sending tho voice ot the telephone subscribers through space. But the most remarkable, beeauso or the best understood, promise made bj' Tesla was ombodlcd In tho statement state-ment that ho will bo able to run a trolley enr In Ireland with electricity generated on Long Island and transmitted trans-mitted across tne Atlantic by wireless wire-less And the men ot science wbo listened listen-ed to him applauded approvingly, for to the dlsciplos of clectrlcltj', nothing which involves tho uso of the elusive fluids Is Impossible nnd no man can say where the fairy tale ends and tho practical purposo begins. Cleveland Plain Dcalor. |