Bear in mind that experiments that follow happened more than 100 years ago! The genius of 20th century, Tesla continues to impress new generations. Even today, some of Tesla's inventions are jet to become the future. This post is about one such discovery. And my 3rd post about this great man, scientist and philanthropist. Without Tesla, 21st century that we know it would never be as we know it today. But he dreamed of an even better future. Better future for all of the people arround our globe. And throughout his experiments, it still seems that it's possible. Are we going to witness this future?...
Wardenclyffe Tower
(Wireless transmission of electrical energy as a solution for world energy crisis)
Tesla’s Long Island Radio Tower. Tesla wanted to transmit electricity from a power plant in Niagara Falls to the world using his Tower.
At the beginning of 20th century, J.P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with the money (200.000,00$) to build this 60 meters high steel tower with a well about 30 meters deep.
Tesla’s theory is that a wireless tower, specially constructed to have a high capacity, acts like a huge electric condenser. This is charged by a suitable high frequency, high voltage apparatus and the current is discharged into the earth. The electric wave is then supposed to travel through the earth along it’s surface shell. In turn, this electricity could be used at any point on the globe where there might be erected a similar high capacity tower.
Some 20 years later, in 1917, Federal Government order the tower destroyed. It was demolished with a dynamite because Government suspected that zie German spies were using the tower. You can find newspaper articles about Tesla’s Tower more than 100 years old, printed at the time when Tesla was alive!
AGFA (if anybody still remembers film photography era ;) used those facilities during 50 years for producing photography supply and storing a waste chemicals. Quote from wikipedia: “In the 1980s and 2000s, hazardous waste from the photographic era was cleaned up, and the site was sold and cleared for new development. A grassroots campaign to save the site succeeded in purchasing the property in 2013, with plans to build a future museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla.” I think that you can still not go there, but would like to hear some updates from you...
3D globe projection of wireless transmission principles
Tesla's confidence that transferring electrical power through the earth surface to the rest of the world is possible can best be seen in his own words on this subject:
"In fact, progress in this field has given me fresh hope that I shall see the fulfilment of one of my fondest dreams; namely, the transmission of power from station to station without the employment of any connecting wires."
Wireless electrical energy transmission demonstration room.
Some even claim that Tesla experimented with electric car in the yard of Wardenclyffe Tower. There are some photos of him driving the car with something that looks like a wire connecting back of his car with the ground. Khm... and this was more than 100 years ago. Maybe. Those are rumours. But Tesla Motors sure picked a right name for their brand. Good job!
Tesla was always afraid that his inventions may be (miss)used in a destructive form. That's why he sometimes kept his most potent ideas in his head and never wrote them down. HAARP is by some considered dangerous extension of Tesla's idea.
If you haven read my previous guides through the Nikola Tesla Museum, you can find them here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@pisteem01/the-museum-of-nikola-tesla-a-walkthrough-part-2
https://steemit.com/steemit/@pisteem01/tesla-a-walkthrough-tesla-s-museum-part-1
That's all for now! Hope you find this interesting!