A practical Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, giving Complete and Detailed Explanations of the Theory and Practice of Modern Radio Apparatus and its Present Day Applications, together with a chapter on the possibilities of its Future Development
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mendous, but power can only be carried in this manner
for limited distances. Central distributing wireless power
stations could send the power of Niagara, which alone
might be made to supply a fifth of all the power in the
Fig. 156.—Twenty-five foot sparks from a Tesla transformer.
United States, and the energy of Victoria to the ends of
the earth with little loss. The Great Falls of Zambesi, in
the heart of Africa, could be made to run the subway trains,
the factories, lights, railroads, ferries, trucks, heaters, etc.,
in that vast, most complex, most bewildering and inspiring
city of the Western World, the City of New York. Ocean
vessels would no longer carry thousands of tons of coal,
locomotives would not wheeze and cough a trail of soot
and smoke through the country, chimneys would cease to