The Tesla Tower: The Incredible Story of the World's Most Powerful Wireless Energy System

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Remember 107 microwave towers from the 1950’s? The first practical wireless network, very expensive. It required clear sight point to point. AT&T used it for transmission of long distance phone calls.

Thank you Mr Tesla for the AC motor and all the other devices that turned out to be the basics of most of the electric system we have now.

Built a Tesla Coil from scratch with plans out of MAKE magazine. Scary as heck and cool AF at the same time!

I learned about Tesla in college. He truly was way ahead of his time and a genius. It’s a shame that he wasn’t able to realize his dream of wireless communication. I’d guess that he would be in awe of what we take for granted today.

You see that small red TV in the intro? My first computer had this exact model as a monitor. Good times !

He was born in Croatia, that was part of Austro-Hungary in 1856, Yugoslavia was not even a thing before the end of ww1

A truly brilliant mind. We owe him for so much of what we take for granted today.

I've read many books on Tesla back in the 80's. It's why I went into electronics.

Tesla coils are an amazing feat of engineering.

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The world wireless system 2:40 - Mid roll ads 3:45 - Back to the video 4:50 - Chapter 2 - Deep pockets 6:40 - Chapter 3 - A change in plans 8:00 - Chapter 4 - Construction begins & ends 10:50 - Chapter 5 - Breakdowns 11:55 - Chapter 6 - The check comes 13:00 - Chapter 7 - From ruin to remembrance - Chapter 8 -

Great idea men sometimes end up with ideas that are ahead of their time or just plain don't work. At other times, an inability to sell their ideas is a big problem. Still, they are the people who move the world forward, however haltingly.

Simon, you need to make a video on the ENIAC! Ive been waiting for years. It would make any early computer need go wild

Einstein was asked once what it was like to be the smartest human on earth, he responded with: "I don't know, you'd have to ask Nikola Tesla"

OK I'm excited for this one! Love the channel

It was not 'just' about providing electricity wirelessly. He used a very specific term that escapes me right now, something like 'electropropulsive force' or something like that. I read a lot about Wardenclyffe and Tesla's motivation to dedicate himself to it - I think it was the key to a radically innovative form of ionic propulsion that would have enabled a new era of aircraft that would not need to carry any fuel as all the energy they needed for flight would have been provided from those towers. This is also the key for the design of glide-vehicles to deploy orbital payloads. Right now, 94-97% of a rocket's mass is fuel. Imagine cutting that down to basically zero.

Seeing as how wireless energy is such a trivial novelty at present, I'd say the Tesla Tower was an ill-concieved notion by an otherwise smart man. But every genius has bad ideas. Isaac Newton tried to turn lead metal into gold. Fritz Haber tried to get gold from seawater.

Well done. What can you find out about the electric car Tesla drove, using something in a wood box to power it.

The Tesla Tower was wonderfully recreated in the wild west video game Red Dead Redemption 2. They obviously thought well of him and made it a small but well built part of the game. IT was very accurate to what you show here. It included a fun parody from there. It also included hard to find hidden features that only the most involved gamers would find.

Marconi sent his first signal from my home town of Glace Bay, NS. from table head beach, right in the cliffs of the Atlantic.