"Wireless will achieve the closer contact
through transmission of intelligence, transport of our
bodies and materials and conveyance of energy.
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be
converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things
being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.
We shall be able to communicate with one
another instantly, irrespective of distance.
Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall
see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face
to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of
miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to
do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present
telephone.
A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket. [i.e. a
mobile cell phone]
We shall be able to witness and hear events - the
inauguration of a President, the playing of a world series
game, the havoc of an earthquake or the terror of a battle -
just as though we were present.
When the wireless transmission of power is made commercial,
transport and transmission will be revolutionized.
Already
motion pictures have been transmitted by wireless over a
short distance.
Later the distance will be illimitable, and by later I mean
only a few years hence. Pictures are transmitted over wires
- they were telegraphed successfully through the point
system thirty years ago.
When wireless transmission of power
becomes general, these methods will be as crude as is the
steam locomotive compared with the electric train.
Perhaps the most valuable application of wireless energy
will be the propulsion of flying machines, which will carry
no fuel and will be free from any limitations of the present
airplanes and dirigibles.
We shall ride from New York to Europe in
a few hours.
International boundaries will be largely
obliterated and a great step will be made toward the
unification and harmonious existence of the various races
inhabiting the globe.
Wireless will not only make possible the
supply of energy to region, however inaccessible, but it
will be effective politically by harmonizing international
interests; it will create understanding instead of
differences.
Modern systems of power transmission will become antiquated.
Compact relay stations one half or one
quarter the size of our modern power plants will be the
basis of operation - in the air and under the sea, for water
will effect small loss in conveying energy by wireless.
Present wireless receiving apparatus...
will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all
forms of interference will be eliminated, so that
innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated
without interference.
It is more than probable that the
household's daily newspaper will be printed 'wirelessly' in
the home during the night.
Domestic management - the
problems of heat, light and household mechanics - will be
freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power.
I foresee the development of the flying machine exceeding
that of the automobile, and I expect Mr. Ford to make
large contributions toward this progress.
The problem of parking automobiles and
furnishing separate roads for commercial and pleasure
traffic will be solved.
Belted parking towers will arise in our
large cities, and the roads will be multiplied through sheer
necessity, or finally rendered unnecessary when civilization
exchanges wheels for wings.
The world's internal reservoirs of heat, indicated by
frequent volcanic eruptions, will be tapped for industrial
purposes.
In an article I wrote twenty years ago I
defined a process for continuously converting to human use
part of the heat received from the sun by the atmosphere.
Experts have jumped to the conclusion
that I am attempting to realize a perpetual-motion scheme.
But my process has been carefully worked
out.
It is rational."
Quoted from John B. Kennedy,
An Interview with Nikola
Tesla,
Collier Magazine
January 30,
1926
Introduction
In the winter of 1899 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a man
named Nikola Tesla constructed a laboratory and a
device to generate and test powerful electromagnetic waves.
So peculiar were the frequencies and
duration of these waves that, once generated, they would
encircle the earth and reinforce subsequent waves generated
an instant later by the same machine.
Each successive power pulse would add its increment of
energy to the previous pulses until the cumulative power
total was very great.
This power is currently viewed as accumulated in the
resonant cavity between the ionosphere and the ground.
The cavity was described by W.O. Schumann and is now
named the
Schumann Cavity.
So great was the power accumulated, Tesla
claimed that people anywhere could simply reach up and get
it from the total power for work or transportation.
To obtain the power one needed an antenna
device for reaching up - something smaller and more portable
than the wave generator itself.
I believe that Power Wave generation for earth
resonance and the convenient long distance reception of this
power required that the Power Wave be sinusoidal and of a
combined high and low frequency.
This wave shape was possible with
Tesla's 1899 equipment...!
