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WIRELESS POWER TECHNOLOGY The Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham Long Island was meant to be the "World Wireless" Broadcasting system
Above: In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure. Over a period of several years the men had managed to assemble the framework and wiring for the 187-foot-tall Wardenclyffe Tower. The project was overseen by its designer, Nikola Tesla. Atop his tower was perched a fifty-five ton dome of conductive metals, and beneath it stretched an iron root system that penetrated more than 300 feet into the Earth's crust. "In this system that I have invented, it is necessary for the machine to get a grip of the earth," he explained, "otherwise it cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip… so that the whole of this globe can quiver." Tesla based the Wardenclyffe towers design on his discoveries at his makeshift laboratory at Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs. He rigged his equipment with the intent to produce the first lightning-scale electrical discharges ever accomplished by mankind, a feat which would allow him to test many of his theories about the conductivity of the Earth and the sky. For this purpose he erected a 142-foot mast on his laboratory roof, with a copper sphere on the tip. The tower's wiring was then routed through an exceptionally large high-voltage Tesla coil in the laboratory below. On the night of his experiment, following a one-second test charge which momentarily set the night alight with an eerie blue hum, Tesla ordered his assistant to fully electrify the tower.
Tesla's Idea about electrical control of rain falls.
Tesla's idea how to light up the ocean with high frequency electricity being transmitted thought the Ionosphere.
The Wardenclyffe Tower, was erected to be the first broadcasting system in the world, and transmitting electrical energy without wires to the globe using the Ionosphere (the electrified upper part of the atmosphere of the earth important for transmitting radio waves around the globe). Under the solar radiation, molecules of the upper atmosphere are being constantly transmitted into ions. Tesla's laboratory was designed by the famous American architect and Tesla's friend, Stanford White. The laboratory is still standing in good condition. In front of Tesla's laboratory, there is a foundation of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower which was an enormous structure. Underground corridors connected the tower with the Atlantic Ocean.
J.P. Morgan, the richest and most powerful man of that time, was a financier of the Tesla Broadcasting system. The Tower was designed as a worldwide wireless communications center. Nikola Tesla also intended to use the tower for transmitting wireless electrical energy to the entire planet. Tesla wanted to saturate the globe with electricity as a dynamo so that everyone on the surface of the earth could obtain electrical light just by sticking wires into the soil and a electric bulb would glow. Homes and automobiles could use a series of vacuum tubes to rectify larger amounts of power at will. Tesla intended to use electricity from the huge resources at Niagara Falls Power Plant for the project. However, when J.P. Morgan heard about the Tesla project, he asked: "How can we get money from the electricity which Tesla is supplying to every part of the world?" Since there was no way to meter the power and collect cash, Morgan decided to cut the funding and the Tower was destroyed. The military quite suddenly decided the tower might be used for "spying" and it was subsequently dynamited while Tesla was in France negotiating funding for a sister tower there. Once France heard of the resistance to Tesla's plan, they pulled their funding as well.
The fall of Wardenclyffe thrust the brilliant inventor into a deep depression and financial distress. "It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! […] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
Some time before the government stepped in to destroy Tesla's dream, he had built for himself some devices that proved his tower worked as he said it did. One of the legendary inventions of Tesla was his electric Pierce Arrow. The "Tesla Car" was put to the test in 1931, under the financing of Pierce-Arrow and George Westinghouse at the factory grounds in Buffalo, New York. The Pierce Arrow was powered by an 80 horsepower, 1800 r.p.m AC electric brushless air-cooled coil motor. It measured 40 inches long and 30 inches in diameter. Under the hood there was an ordinary 12 volt storage battery. And there were 2 very thick lead wires going from the motor to the dashboard. There were no capacitors. The now infamous secret black control box he carried with him and never let anyone examine, had a bank of 12 radio tubes. This device was powerful enough to rectify a wireless signal that powered the Tesla car up to 90 miles per hour all day long.
As it was an electric motor and there were no batteries involved, where did the power come from? Of the motive source he referred to "a mysterious radiation which comes out of the aether". The small device very obviously and effectively appropriated this energy. Tesla also spoke very glowingly of this providence, saying of the energy itself that "it is available in limitless quantities". Tesla also stated that although "I do not know where it comes from, mankind should be very grateful for its presence". Popular responses included charges of "black magic". Several people suggested that Tesla was mad and somehow in league with sinister forces of the universe. The sensitive genius didn't like the skeptical comments of the press either. He removed his mysterious box after his test in Buffalo, returned to his laboratory in New York - and the secret of his power source died with him. In the coming months, John Hutchison's hypothesis on this device will be put to the test as we will attempt to recreate Tesla's control box by a schematic designed by John, and transmit enough power through it to run an automobile. The parts list discussed for the recreation includes the following:
1) 12 Vacuum Tubes (70L7-GT rectifier beam power tubes or possibly 21-A) John is probably the worlds leading expert on Tesla devices, as well as the state of his mind during different phases of his life. In the earlier years, Tesla was entirely forthcoming with his designs and very excited to share his knowledge. As years went by, and disappointments in funding and greedy financiers shattered his hopes of revolutionizing the new coming age, Tesla became more and more jaded, and cryptic with his statements. Tesla had already been the victim of several manipulations by this time. In an effort to recreate his later works, one must take into account the fact that his statements were elusive, secretive and misleading. Tesla realized if anyone really had a passion for his work, a trail of engineering clues coupled with cryptic clues would lead the experimenter through a similar path of discovery. That said, John believes that a smaller wireless power transmitter based on the Wardenclyffe was used to transmit wireless power at around the 200 - 400mhz bands during the test period. The tubes merely rectified the massive amounts of radio waves bouncing between the earth and the ionosphere. It will be on this assumption that we will base our experiment.
Tesla did mention the latent aetheric power of charged forces, the explosive potentials of bound aether, and the aetheric power inherent in matter. Due to the corruption motivated destruction of his tower, Tesla sought a portable replacement for the 100,000,000 volt initiating pulses which natural law required for the implementation of space aether. This was the basis of his world wireless power transmission at Wardenclyffe. He would bombard the ionosphere with a minimum of 100 million volts starting a chain reaction of radio resonance with forces out in space such as Valhalla’s Belt. Once such a flow began, one could simply tap the stream for limitless power. Tesla had now abandoned those gigantic ideas and shifted his attentions from the appreciation of the gigantic to an appreciation of the miniature. Broken hearted, he was reduced to tears when his tower was destroyed. He vowed to replace his efforts with an immense number of small and compact aether power receivers that could never all be destroyed. By all witness accounts he succeeded completely.
We have no specifications for the AC motor that Tesla used in the auto, so we have no idea if it was single or polyphase. In the case of a single phase motor, it only requires a single winding which projects a magnetic field that rotates according to the increase or decrease of the alternating current. A polyphase (poly = two or more) motor uses multiple windings which are fed by phased input currents that alternate in such a manner as to reinforce each other. In the case of a 3 phase motor, the currents are phased 120 degrees apart. This gives much greater torque to the motor but requires 3 times the current because it uses 3 times the input energy. Since the box powered an AC (coil) motor, it is probable it was tuned to one or more frequencies emanating from Wardenclyffe, most likely polyphased frequencies. Tesla's tower had the ability to produce hundreds of millions of volts of radio frequency. Keep in mind that an average 6 foot tall Tesla coil puts out at least 2 million volts ac pressure easily when tuned. If the lightning bolts are suppressed, the invisible discharge becomes a very powerful radio transmission. Keep in mind that electricity is much like air or water. We can think of voltage as pounds per square inch (PSI) and current as cubic feet per minute (CFM). That is PSI is pressure, CFM is flow. Another analogy is comparing a river to electricity. In such a comparison, the speed of the river is the voltage or pressure while the width of the river is the current/amperage or rate of flow.
The schematics and frequencies will be posted as they are developed. Keep checking for updates.
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