Wireless
"You may think me a dreamer and very far gone, if I should tell you what I really hope for. But I can tell you that I look forward with absolute confidence to sending messages through the earth without any wires. I have also great hopes of transmitting electric force in the same wave without waste. Concerning the transmission of messages through the earth I have no hesitation in predicting success."-Nikola Tesla, New York World (1894)
"Nikola Tesla feels certain that he has at last perfected a system of telegraphy without wires which will enable him to communicate with any point on the surface of the earth, and perhaps even with the stars."-The New York Herald (1897) The discoverer of wireless electricity, Nikola Tesla dreamed of providing free energy to the entire world. His inventions including the Tesla coil and oscillator were instrumental in transferring energy wirelessly. Tesla sold many of his earlier patents to obtain funding for wireless research.
“When in 1900 I obtained powerful discharges of 100 feet and flashed a current around the globe, I was reminded of the first tiny spark I observed in my Grand Street laboratory and was thrilled by sensations akin to those I felt when I discovered the rotating magnetic field .”-Nikola Tesla |
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“There were the excessive electrical pressures of millions of volts, which opened up wonderful possibilities if producible in practical ways; there were the currents of many hundreds of thousands of amperes, which appealed to the imagination by their astonishing effects, and most interesting and inviting of all, there were the powerful electrical vibrations with their mysterious actions at a distance.”-Nikola Tesla
"Tesla, probably the highest authority in high frequency electrical engineering today, has not been dreaming these past few years, although we have not heard much from him, except through the daily newspapers, which now and then publish some world-startling interview describing a “marvelous” Tesla wave with which it is possible to communicate with Mars and several hundred other astounding stunts that the winner of the Noble physics prize probably never even thought of, much less attempted to accomplish."- H. Winfield Secor, The Electrical Experimenter (March 1916)
Tesla Coil:
Tesla coils are forms of high frequency transformers, unique in their ability to transfer electricity wirelessly at high voltages.
"My progress was so rapid as to enable me to exhibit at my lecture in 1891 a coil giving sparks of five inches. On that occasion I frankly told the engineers of a defect involved in the transformation by the new method, namely, the loss in the spark gap. Subsequent investigation showed that no matter what medium is employed....the efficiency is the same. It is a law very much like that governing the conversion of mechanical energy."-Nikola Tesla
Wardenclyffe Tower:
"According to the newspapers, strange things are happening at Wardenclyffe, L. I., where Tesla has his laboratory. Ever since Mr. Tesla. retired from the public gaze and hid himself in Long Island, he has been credited with performing strange feats... For some time, residents about the laboratory have been startled by vivid flashes of light emanating from a tall tower erected by the inventor. Just what this tall tower, and the gleams and hashes which come and go, may mean, no one knows; but it is to be inferred that Mr. Tesla is bent upon improving the present methods of telegraphing."-P. L. Narsu, Scientific American (1903)
"Mr. Nikola Tesla, the foremost electrician of the age, whose achievements in electrical science eclipse in practical importance all other discoveries of the century, has just closed a contract to expend at Wardenclyffe a very large sum of money in constructing electrical laboratories and the main station for his wireless telegraphy system of communication."-Electrical World and Engineer (1902)
Nikola Tesla aimed to construct a wireless tower which would provide free energy to the whole earth. He attempted to achieve this in the creation of the Wardenclyffe Tower, but his plan was unfortunately not feasible for monetary reasons.
"The wireless telegraphy plants you may have seen are but networks of flimsy wire. We are not doing anything of that sort here at Wardenclyffe. We are building the future. It will be some time before our preparations are complete, but when we are ready we will be able to accomplish what we desire. We shall not be handling a plaything. It will be something for business. I do not believe that messages can be transmitted without wires for more than 50 or 60 miles without the use of the principles which I have patented throughout the civilized countries of the world. By the use of my system, you will be able to put an instrument in your house and talk to anyone who has a similar apparatus anywhere in the country without any metallic or artificial connection."-Nikola Tesla, Western Electrician (1903)
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