Tesla's 75th Birthday Interview in Time Magazine

Time Magazine publishes its feature on Nikola Tesla at 75, based on his annual birthday interview from his rooms at the Hotel Governor Clinton in Manhattan. Tesla uses the occasion to announce a critique of Einstein's theory, to deny the practicality of atomic energy ('I have split atoms — but no energy was released'), and to renew the interplanetary-communication claim from his 1900 Century essay: 'I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come some day, and the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself.' The piece records birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Lee De Forest, Robert Millikan, Ernst Alexanderson, John Hays Hammond Jr., U.S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont, and Henry Herman Westinghouse.