Wardenclyffe Tower
Also known as the Tesla Tower was designed and built by Nikola Tesla in NY. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals.
The Tower was designed as a world communications center and Nikola Tesla added to the project in that the tower would also be used for transmitting electrical energy without wires to the entire globe. Tesla wanted to saturate the globe with electricity as a dynamo so that everyone on the surface of the globe could obtain electrical light just by sticking wires into the soil and a electrical bulb would light.
J.P Morgan, the project’s primary financier, refused the plan and the project was eventually abandoned.
The tower was dismantled on July 4, 1917. It was dynamited and razed by the mortgage holder, the proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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He knew ;-)
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There is little or no profit to be made in free (or virtually free) energy. Perhaps there are other technologies that have been suppressed
ReplyDeleteYep, Tesla was a nut!
ReplyDeleteThere are many problems with this tower. For one the amount of power needed to make the thing work just to light up a few bulbs was astronomical. Not to mention the RFI it would have caused on radios.
ReplyDeleteI do like how he went ahead and started to build devices whereas others just stuck with the math and rarely building.
Case and point: The Mars Curiosity rover would still be in the lab had the engineering team worked out the math precisely. Close enough to just work was the goal. The rover landed perfectly.
Captain Jack That's engineering for you! :D
ReplyDeleteKenny Chaffin I built a Crystal Radio one time in my youth. It was powered solely by the electro-magnetic waves in the air. I was shocked that something like this could work without needed any power source like a solar cell or battery. The signal was very weak and I could only hear the radio stations that put out the most power and were close by. I too like Tesla thought this idea should be expanded. Well in my studies in electronics, I learned this is really a bad idea. Nice little parlor trick for our early days, but not very practicable. :-)
ReplyDeleteCaptain Jack exactly!
ReplyDeleteTESLA WAS A GENIUS THAT WAS THREW OUT OF THE COUNTRY CLUB ,BY PEOPLE WITH MONEY , HE ACTUALLY WAS THE MAN THAT WE CAN THANK FOR OUR AC ELECTRIC WE USE IN OUR HOMES
ReplyDeleteSometimes you have to stop thinking and just do!
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