WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
NEW AMERICAN INVENTION.
It is seriously declared in New York that Nikola "Tesla, the well-known American inventor ''has practically perfected a new system of telegraphy and telephony which differs from the present wireless system in that it utilises as the transmitting agency, not waves of ai\-, but the inherent conductivity of the earth itself. Space, time, and the elements it almost utterly disregards," and, says the announcement, Mr. Tesla is absolutely confident, from experiments'which he has already conducted in Colorado and Shoreham, Long Island. that the'day when one may talk around the world by wireless' telephone at a trifling - cost has now dawned. Moreover,, the messages being sent underground, any 'possibility of interterence is obviated.
Mr. Tesla's claims are very interesting, and that is why they are given sucli prominence. He boldly asserts that distance is no obstacle, as in the case of the air wireless, that any number of receiving-stations may be used, and that not only will messages across and around the world become incredibly cheap, but that any man anywhere in the world may, by placing to his' ear a
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1910, Page 4
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185WIRELESS TELEPHONE. Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1910, Page 4
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