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Nikola Tesla, whose project for utilising the parth as a modium for the transmission of electricity On the other hand, the type of is again being boomed in tho speaker who forgets the medium Amorloan Press, first promised us through which ho reaches lis this marvel, nearly twenty years hearers comes over to the fireside ago. That was at the time the listener with a ring of conviction, two Danish oloctricians, Pouléon and thrills him as much as with and Pederson, wore experimenting, the addod glamour of his personal with the problem of Transatlantic appearance he can thrill a visiblo wireless telephony. He was very multitudo.

contemptuous of those experi- Listenera are not likely soon ments, and in a sonso warned to forgot the message of good them and all other dabblers in shear broadcast fromi” 21⁄4 ̧L O∙on wireless that he had already Now Year's Eve by his Grace patonlod · "all the ossential the Archbishop of Canterbury. processos of and appliancos for Always able to hold a tromond- the generation, transmission, our audience by his simple, direct transformation, distribution, di appeal, ho foood the microphone rection, storage, regulation, con- for the first time in hla life with trol, and utilisation of wireless the same philosophic calm with electricity "a fairly completo | which be mounts the steps of the

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pulpit of his own' 'celebrated The attempt, said Tesla, to cathedral. When the announcor achieve wireless propagation of had entled up the British Isles for alectricity in any form by meáns almost the last time in the Old of Hortzian waves in the ether Your, his Graco stepped forward was doomed to failure; there were on the blue carpet, with the firm, no such waves in existence. Hisdonisive atop of one who know method was to uno the earth itself, he had indeed a mossage of a perfect transmitter of cle:tri-peace and goodwill toward men. |cal energy."

Two great soldiers who have A fow yours later, about 1910, faced the unseon at 2 LO-with Tesla announced that, with the not exactly a chour, but the op- uxcoption of a fow irifling details, | timism and spirit famous in onch ho had perfected a wireless have boon Field-Marshal Earl receiver, costing a few shillings, Haig, O.M., K.T., etc., the idol of by moans of which anyone any- the British Army; and Major where could hoar, say, an opora Goueral Bir David Bruco, K.C.B., porformed thousands of miles etc., leader of the Mount Everest away." The receiver could be Expedition. carried in the pocket and used at The Earl dolivored, his ap any timo in the home or in the peal on himself of the Ex- street-to pick up signals sent by Service Men's Loagup with bis system through the earth. remarkable offectiveness, Опе But those who believed in thecould imagine ho saw in his Hertzian waves went steadily on mind'a oye, in pitiful contrast, the with their experiments, and they lines of brave and tired boys, thick have now achieved what Tesla with grine, still anxious to fight: declared to be impossible, while for their country to the bittor end, the world still awaits the far more and the crowds of hungry, weary marvellous things he promised fellows still seeking tirelessly for twenty years ago.

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Nikola Tesla is undoubtedly a great authority on the selonce of electricity. A Sorb by birth, he acquired his first knowledge of electricity in the telegraphic sur- vice of Austria, and when quite a young man he is now sixty- General Bruce tackled the now seven years of age-he went to job with an individuality all his the United States and becaine own. Tunned by fierce suns and Edison's assistant. But since he fiercer storms with the bluo, censed his association with piercing eyes of the born warrior, Edison he has put forward sobe nearly conquorud Mount many remarkable schemos, few of Evorest in his last memorable which have survived the theoreti-effort with his heroic party, cal stage, that-few--qualified to What:la.amore microphone, that jadge now take him seriously, it should awe hin 7

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almost expected it to quake- Soon after he first announced and then in a voice, clear yet his discovery that the earth was peculiarly modest, ho told the ileal for wireless propagation, he inarvelling world what had been turned his attention to the planet accomplished. He left no ono Mars, the pouple of which he said doubling that the completo con- wore sending wireless messages quest of the highest mountain in to the earth. Given a few hundred the world is. a matter of but short million horse-powor, he explained, time, and he takes with him the he could get an acknowledgmont goodwill of every listener on his across the gulf between us, and next expedition. be sot about erecting a huge

STAGE" FRIGHT, station for the purpose at War-

Or. our groat mon of science, denclyffe, Long Island. He relied one of the earliest was Professor for his few hundred million Elliott Smith. Accustomed to horse power

"or co-operation lecture to distinguished andi- between the big electric power onces, his learned address on companies at Niagara, but, appar- Tutankhamen's tomb, given in ently, they were unable to supply the great hall of Manchester the energy he needed, and the University, won tho Warmest Martians are still listoning for the admiration of all who wore pri- first message from the earth, vileged to hear him.

Subsequently, Tesla announced "electric tolautomation," which, operated from the shore, could cause a mighty tidal wave which would sink "a whole navy

But ho immediately wants to lunattended by any white man, ho of Dreadnoughts" many milos away; a torpedo with an accurate

Meanwhile, has wandered fourtoon thousand Was it difficult? Would any ask, all over again.

his range longer than the biggest one be in the room with him? "they" hang on their phones in miles in the jungle gun; and a method of exterminat Could he have a tonic before he the agony of waiting, Trom the devotion to the good of the Bur- ing disease gorms by electricity. started? Was it possible to occasional mysterious whispers mese race; and he has cheerfully. But none of these has yot mat- cough?

and tape constructing in their gone back to wander fourtson erialised, and with a record of Eventually he was shown into imagination tho

boing thousand more.

Before he broadcast he eat so much promise and so little comfortable study, where a enacted in the studio. performance, Tesla can scarcely microphone, spacially rigged up Frequently, too, at the ond, quito still in the lobby at 2, Savoy wonder if those who have follow for the occasion, was awaiting the most careful speakor in, in-Hill, his bluo, unscoing eyes fixed ed his career aro a little scoptical him. This microphone was con-noconco makes a romark that and his delicato fingers nervous- of his rovived schoms of trans-nocted by a long line of flox to transmits more clearly than the ly toying with the abony-crucifix mitting all kinds of electrical transmitting plant in another legitimato performanco. A wag suspended from his neck. In tho energy through the earth itsoif. portion of the building. A short has said that next to the prover studio the microphone and its test and a fow comforting words bial "Please stand by for one position were briefly described to from the station director, and minute," the most frequently him, and he sat before it with a the orudite professor was on the broadoast romark delivered, with fow notes in Braille type upon other. His talk as received near dramatic hon rsaness,, is "Was his knoe, occasionally consulting by on a testing set was enthral that all right?"

them with his finger-tips 48 ho lingly interesting, and betrayod

One of the most calm and dig. spokespe fow signs of his agitation. After nified figuroe who over addressed

His voice was clear and reson- wards, while mopping his brow, the London area was the Eari ofant, and his talk witty, and in- Someone has said that the he admitted that it had not beep Shaftosbury, who, from 2LO, gave structive. It was cortainly insignificant microphone will so bad after all, and that broad- an appeal one avening last Octo- happy. As the announcer, several guido the destiny of nations. casting had several points in its her. From his easy carriago and foot away, was about to come to Tks may or may not be true; favour, not the least of which quist, yet compelling, voice, one warn him of the time the but it frequently has an amazing was that through the microphone could imagine broadcasting to be speaker's keen ear detected the offect on the most hardened one could refuto all the accepted oratora, Often an experienced doctrines of the world with ipistonco.

a normal part of his daily ox-movenient, and he aloverly finish

ed his story with an apt romark, public speaker is strangely dis- punity.

Truly this horoid spirit can teach concerted on first facing this Howovor self-pos 06sed. a But no speaker strango to us all much. harmless instrument. Its prociso, lecturor trios to be, he usually broadcasting has ever seemed 80 affect depends on his mental at- exhibits signs of panic when the much in his olomont, and given a titude, says Kenneth D. Wrightman in charge" has announced talk so delightfully free from any HONGKONG TO CANADA BY DUS. A fleet of 200 olectric buses will In Popular Wireless,"

him. Ho has boon shown whore trace of nervousness,

us did If he normally dorivos his suce to stand; how to hold his copy;

Father Jackson whon speaking onable visitors to travel from Australia to, "India"; and coss from his ability to допно where to place each shoot when on his experiences in Burnia. his visible audience, le may find read; how to turn if he wants to Although he is sightless, the from "Canada" to "Hongkong broadcasting an uncomfortable snooze and where the clock hand strength and spirit of this nomad for a fow coppere at the British ordeal, as there is nothing in the should be when ho finishes. cooloslastic are marvellous, Quito Empiro Exhibition.

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Some Nervous and Others Calm.

Immediately afterwards, as he was hurried in a car to the B.B.C. station at Trafford Park, ho showed considerable anxiety con- corning the new experienco ho was about to undergo,

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