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Nikola Tesla isn't only predicting wireless communication (which he calls a primitive usage of wireless technology), but wireless transfer of electricity - - on

by amix 16y ago

Nikola Tesla isn't only predicting wireless communication (which he calls a primitive usage of wireless technology), but wireless transfer of electricity - - one of his unfinished projects and something that we still don't have today. Read this passage once more: "The attention of the world has been caught and held by the wireless telegraph, and yet this is a very primitive use of the the art. So far only electric waves have been used, which have been quickly damped out in their passage through the air. It is possible, however, to transmit electric currents of enormous power for thousands of miles without demising their energy." Too bad he got screwed by Edison & company. I think the world would have looked a lot more different if Tesla had finished his work on wireless transfer of electricity. Nikola Tesla is viewed as one of the co-inventors and pioneers of radio and this article clearly shows his vision and how far ahead he was of his time ( check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio ).

madmaze 16y ago
this is why i honor tesla with a framed print of him, sitting in his lab, watching over my bed.
jarin 16y ago
We do have wireless transfer of electricity, take a look at your electric toothbrush or Palm Pre charging puck.
- amix 16y ago
  We don't have it on Tesla's scale. He wanted to transfer wirelessly enormous amounts of electricity and communication on a global scale. His idea resolved using Earth as part of a powerful type-two oscillator... Basically, his solution would have enabled a cheap and global distribution of electricity and communication. "Using a global array of these magnifying transmitters, it was Tesla's plan to establish what he called the "World System", providing multi-channel global broadcasting, an array of secure wireless telecommunications services, and a long range aid to navigation, including means for the precise synchronization of clocks. In a more highly developed state he envisioned the World System would expand to include the wireless industrial transmission of electric power." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower - his unfinished project intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and to demonstrate the transmission of power without interconnecting wires. I don't really think we can imagine what world Tesla saw or what solution he had in mind, but it's clear for us now that Tesla was correct in many of his assumptions regarding the Wardenclyffe tower, e.g.: "Despite the ridicule he has been subjected to by scientists for many years, many of Tesla's ideas are being demonstrated to be essentially correct. For example he correctly predicted the existence of the ionosphere and electrical resonance of the Earth-atmosphere system. Resonance of the earth-ionosphere cavity with a fundamental frequency in the vicinity of 7.3 Hz was demonstrated in the 1950s as the Schumann resonance[37]. The latter phenomenon was named after Schumann, for although Tesla had detected a resonance of the Earth-atmosphere system, he was not taken seriously in his time.[38] Furthermore, Tesla appears to have excited a different terrestrial resonance mode with a fundamental frequency of 11.78 Hz."

by amix 16y ago

madmaze 16y ago

this is why i honor tesla with a framed print of him, sitting in his lab, watching over my bed.

jarin 16y ago

We do have wireless transfer of electricity, take a look at your electric toothbrush or Palm Pre charging puck.

amix 16y ago
We don't have it on Tesla's scale. He wanted to transfer wirelessly enormous amounts of electricity and communication on a global scale. His idea resolved using Earth as part of a powerful type-two oscillator... Basically, his solution would have enabled a cheap and global distribution of electricity and communication. "Using a global array of these magnifying transmitters, it was Tesla's plan to establish what he called the "World System", providing multi-channel global broadcasting, an array of secure wireless telecommunications services, and a long range aid to navigation, including means for the precise synchronization of clocks. In a more highly developed state he envisioned the World System would expand to include the wireless industrial transmission of electric power." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower - his unfinished project intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and to demonstrate the transmission of power without interconnecting wires. I don't really think we can imagine what world Tesla saw or what solution he had in mind, but it's clear for us now that Tesla was correct in many of his assumptions regarding the Wardenclyffe tower, e.g.: "Despite the ridicule he has been subjected to by scientists for many years, many of Tesla's ideas are being demonstrated to be essentially correct. For example he correctly predicted the existence of the ionosphere and electrical resonance of the Earth-atmosphere system. Resonance of the earth-ionosphere cavity with a fundamental frequency in the vicinity of 7.3 Hz was demonstrated in the 1950s as the Schumann resonance[37]. The latter phenomenon was named after Schumann, for although Tesla had detected a resonance of the Earth-atmosphere system, he was not taken seriously in his time.[38] Furthermore, Tesla appears to have excited a different terrestrial resonance mode with a fundamental frequency of 11.78 Hz."