"Tesla's Millennium."

Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1899, Page 2

" Tesla's Millennium."

-+ WONDERFUL MACHINE FOR ENDING WAR. I Nicola Tesla, whose electrical dis* I coveries have placed him in the foremost ranks of science, made public on November Bth his latest discovery, which he believes to be also his greatest;. He thinks this invention will not only answer many useful purposes in ordinary life, but will make war so terrible, as well as expensive, that it I will become prohibitory. The fact of the invention has already been cabled, but the detailare only now made public. j It consists of a combination of devices for producing and projecting into the air currents of electricity of enormous voltages, which will extend many miles, and also of means 0! using the waves thus produced for controlling the driving, steering, and other machinery of moving bodieson land and sea. i If desirable, a vessel carrying j great quantities of explosives can be blown up by operators at a fardistant point. Tesla exhibits, a working model of a vessel, whose every movement icontrolled by turning a crank ie another part of the room with n< connection with the vessel other than atmospheric air. Tb.2 working of the model proves♦hut there is no operation aboard » great wjr?hip in which automatic machines could replace human hands ;.hat could not ba controlled by in* mxsf.er-hand at the tiny craok mile aw;iy. with &* much certainty and precisi m as if the hand was aboard the ship. j Tesla declares that a single fast I uoarinoured vessel, without guns, i but supplied with a fleet of lifcth ! vessels, whose movements would bt controlled by the operator on board I the big vessel, could destroy an ' enemy's fleet without ever coming ; within range of any warlike engines, I used in present warfare. It could also send vast quantities of explosives into a hostile harbour, where the explosion would be almost is destructive as an earthquake. The invention ig po wonderful as to be almo3t beyond the power of belief. In his application for a patent Tesla says :— " The greatest value of my invention will result from it "ffeot upon warfare and armaments, for by reason of its certain and unlimited destructivenes? it will tear to bring about and maintain permanent peace among the nation?." 1 The inventor says he intends ex hibifcing his model torpedo boat a the Paris Exhibition, and will direct all its movements from New York by electricity transmitted without wire?.