A censoloss day and night service of millions upon millions of volts electricity from the Canadian Ning Power Company's electric power plants at Ningara Falls to the Wardenclyffo tower, the electric power being forward-od from there by Tesla's wireless system to now York City for the purpose of illuminating the entire metropolis, running elevated and subway trains and stroct cars, operating elevators, automobiles, trucks and ferryboats, furnishing heat and even winding up clocks and making them keep perfect time by a system of half-hourly regulation.
The erection of Tesla towers similar to the one now at Wardenclyffe, at convenient places everywhere for the purpose of distributing wireless telegraphy to be used for illumination, power, and heat. Only such towers as are erected within a given distance from Niagara Falls will be supplied from the power plants there with electricity, Each other tower will derive its own power from a generating plant erected alongside or between the main uprights, and each will distribute about ten thousand horse-power of wireless electricity under a tension of one hundred million volts. Mr. Tesla declares that he is able to produce and handle that much with perfect safety from one tower. Each tower will be capable of transmitting heat, power, and light to cities, factories, and private houses within a radius of thirty miles or more. Eventually Mr. Tesla proposes the extension of this tower system until practically the whole North American continent dotted over with them, spaced about sixty miles apart, 80 that practically every inch of ground is covered by the new Wireless survive.
The woodsman, yachtsman, or Summer resort visitor, wherever he or she may be, can be communicated with instantly through the medium of one of the little watch tickers. The point of a parasol held aloft, a mast or short pole as the case may be, will ensure the complete "picking up" of the wireless message after the watch has ticked off the first signal in the pocket.
In short, as Mr. Tesla has frankly admitted, the possibilities of his amazing scheme are simply boundless. He has not beau able to realise to what extent it may be developed in the future, The Wardenclyffo tower is 185 feet high from the ground to the top of the cupola. The smallest dimension across the base of uprights is 97 feet. The height to ledge of cupolas 153 feet, while the cupola itself is 65 foot in diameter. The tower has eight sides, with a staircase and lift for reaching the cupola platform.
there that the wireless vibrations are received and shot out again in the voltage desired to given points scattered over a very wide radius, Newspaper Printed in Vest Pocket.
Much has already been dono toward making my system commercially available in the transmission of energy in small amounts for specific purposes as well as on an industrial scale," said. Mr. Tesla. "The results attained by mo have made my scheme of intelligence transmission assily realizable. It constitutes, I believe, in its principle of operation, moans employed and capacities of application, a radical and fruitful departure from what has been done heretofore. I have no doubt that it will prove very efficient in enlightening the masses, particularly in still uncivilisod countries and less accessible regions, and that it will add materially to general safety, comfort and convenience, and maintenance of peaceful relations. It involves the employment of a number of plants, all of which are capable of transmitting individ alisod signals to the uttermost confines of the earth. Each of them will be preferably located near some important centre of civilisation, and the news it receives through any channel will be flashed to all points of the globe. A and simple device, which might be carried in one's pocket, will accurately record the world's news or such special messages as may be intended for it. Thus the entire earth will be converted into a hugo brain as it were, capable of response in every one of its parts. Since single plant of but one hundred horsopower can operate hundreds of millions of instruments, the system will have a virtually infinite working capacity, and it must needs immensely facilitate and cheapen transmission of intelligence.
"The first of these central plants is already completed. The best design of which 'I know has been adopted, and the transmitter will emit a wave complex of a total maximum activity of 10,000,000 horse power, one per cent of which is amply sufficient to girdle the globe' This enormous rate of energy delivery, approximately twice that of the combined falls of Niagara, is obtainable only by the uso of certain artifices.
"For a large part of the work which I have done so far I am indebted to the noble generosity of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, which was all the more welcome and stimulating as it was extended at a time when those who have since promised most were the greatest of doubters.
Wireless Clocks and Light.
"Meanwhile, the transmission of orgy on xn industrial scale is not neglected. The Canadian Niagara' Power Company has offered mo a splendid inducement. In this first power plant, which I have erected at Wardenelyffe, I' propose to distribute 10,000 horse-power under a tension of 100,000,000 volts, which I now able to produce and handle with safety.
"One of the chief uses will be the illumination of residences. It takes very little power to light a dwelling with vacuum tubes operated by high-frequency currents, and in each instance a terminal 8 little above the roof will be sufficient, Another valuable application will be the driving of clocks and other such apparatus. These clocks will be exceed: ingly simple, will require absolutely no attention and will indicate rigorously correct time. There are innumerable devices of all kinds which are either now employed or can be supplied, and by operating them in this manner I may be able to offer a groat convenience to the whole world with a plant of no more than 10,000 horse power. The introduction of this system will give opportunities for invention and manufacture such as have never presented themselves before, Knowing the far-roaching importance of this first attempt and its effect upon future development, I shall proceed slowly and carefully. Experience has taught me not to assign a term to enterprises the consummation of which is not wholly dependent on my own abilities and exertions. But I am hopeful that these great realisation ato not far off, and I know that when this first work is completed they will follow with mathematical certitude, "Toward the close of 1898 a systematic research, carried on for a number of years with the object of perfecting a method of transmission of electrical energy through the natural medium, lod me to ise three important necessities: First, to develop a transmitter of great power yeand, to perfect means for individuali ing and isolating the energy transmitted and, third, to ascertain the laws of pro-paration of currents through the earth and the atmosphere. Various reasons determined mo to select for my experimental investigations the large plateau at Colorado Springs, two thousand metres above soa level, which I reached late in May, 1899.
Tesla's First Important Discovery.
"I found the earth was literally alive with electrical vibrations, and soon I was clooply absorbed in this interesting investigation. No better opportunities for such observations as I intended to make could be found anywhere. Colorado is a country famous for the natural displays of electric force. In that"dry and rarefied atmosphere the sun's rays beat the objects with fierce intensity. I raised steam, to 4 dangerous pressure, in barrels filled with concentrated salt solution, and the tinfoil coatings of some of my elevated terminals shrivelled up in the fiery blaze. An experimental high-tension transformer, care-Tessly exposed to the rays of the setting sun, had most of its insulating compound melted out and was rendered useless.
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