A WIRELESS MESSAGE TO MARS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5

A WIRELESS MESSAGE TO MARS.

■■•.: '. ' TESLA'S GIGANTIC. IDEA. ~• /■■>■' - ■ ■■' ■ ■ ' '. . _,: .NIAGARA TO'SEND A TREMENDOUS .•■. ■-'■■■ ■;.. ;■ ;.'.;:-,. WAVE. ', '..: '.- ,■ BI TELEGBirn—IItESS ■ ASSOCrATION—COPYKIfIRT. • •■'••/ .;..■"■ (Reci Dec/ 26, 9,38 a.m.)-: • •-.' i '..:■"' .' ■' ■.' '.r , . Nevj York, December 25. Mr. Nikola -Tesla, the electrician >nd in■vontor, with,the assistance of the Niagara Power Companies,'is arranging a project for an' oig'ht hundred .million horse-power message to Mars by "wireless" phint.

Telegraphing.' from Flagstaff, Arizona, ; on July 7; Mr. Lowell,, the celebrated American astronomer and expert on Mars, said:— "/The expedition'which I have despatched to the Andes has obtained photographs of Mars showing, both the double canals and tho oases in that planet." '■' .-'"' "' , ' Scientific; opinion -in the United States, however, is generally,sceptical >as to the yalue of such photographs.. ,, . ".Professor'Pickering, of Harvard, iliinks at possible that the study of the 'planet by-! 'telescope will-yield-. Better results than photography, Professor : Seryjss, of Brooklyn, wjiile scouting the idea of interplanetary communication, despite the fact that Mars to-day is ouly 88,000,000 miles is convinced-that, as , Mars is in a , more advanced stage of evolution'than the earth, the Martians are ahead of their terrestrial rivals in science. He therefore concludes that they would bo the first to establish-/a successful inter-planetary signalling'apparatus. ■■■', . ■•■ -The London ".Daily Mail", cabled to Mr. Lowell >' to telegraph to them exclusively and fully on the observations being inade- at , the' Lowell Observatory of tho planet Mars, and the directory of that institution cabled: — ,"The most •interesting and suggestive' feature is- the "unusually wellrdisplayed :spring melting of. the■'south polar- cap, enabling its finer details to'be caught for the first time. Three months ngo ithe. cap came'-down ■to lat. '4'(? 40). degrees on .the planet's surface, and was.indefinite; in contour. It has, now shrunk to lat. GOdeg., .aiul -is 'belted by a dark baud :that continuously: retreats : with. it.- No substances, kiio\Tn to' us could present this metomorphosis, including the accompanying girdle, but-snow turning to, water. Ancillary to this melting, durk lipee, have appeared issuing from the, edge of, the cap and proceeding down the disc"• to connect , with ; the ' ext'rejnc , southern •canals'in the light' area's. These have shown darkest .near, -.^he'-, cap,', their.'source. The (luence of 'itie , -phenomena is thus completely in' 1 -corroborat jbn ibf' the explanation of N them previously advanced '■' by this observatory—to wit,, that : ' the' eanals were -.dependent upon ■water letfjoospvfrom:.the", cap "foritheir ; origin' iand'^office.>.,A.t '.the.;same,.timo'.-,Mr. Lampland has : bed) ' phofbgraphing , the , planet''again , with ■ a success ' surpassing that at the lost opposition. The*darjf. streaks from the polnr cap ; observed here '.visually show beautifully in the photographs, ;aiid' the canals' tliehiselves icbme out with-'a definiteness exceeding expec-tation;-More tlian a score,(Of them have already been and, in both the photographs and naked-eye observations, the canals' appear .continuous.'.'. , The photographs thus entirely .confirm, the visual-.obsor-vations."' ■';■ - ; 'V "; .;.'' ■"' '• ■"' Cablegrams from the expedition to the Andes sent put ■by:" the.■'Lowell; Observatory have been received, andTeport success" both visual and. photographic.v.-Pnotographically the expedition has'registered' the •', canals and, oases on . its plates, and visually it has detected the double character' of several of tho canals seen there during the''last l few months in duplicate, ■