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Caption continues: "Well, well, what is it? Who is it?" Voice in Telephone: "Tesla." Mars: "Who on Earth is 'Tesla'?"
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for a cartoon published to illustrate Sir Robert Ball's article, "Signalling to Mars," published in the Pall Mall magazine, v. 23, 1901, p. 364.
Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1901"; in margin at right: Mars at the Telephone. "Well, well, what is it? Who is it?" Voice in Telephone. "Tesla."* Mars. "Who on Earth is 'Tesla'?'" * Note to printer, put "Tesla" in the smallest possible letters; at foot, in pencil: 4 5/8 base.
Drawing shows the god Mars listening on an earpiece and speaking into an elaborate telephone with a telescopic extension pointed at the night sky.