The Tower which almost unknown to many

An Invention, what happened? why it got demolished? what all the reasons that a great invention lead to demolish? did any antagonists imposed any Fake news?……. The solutions for all the ‘WH’ questions this article will be answering right here.

Nikola Tesla stepped into 20^th century, at the last stage of his scientific life. He wanted to realize that of all his inventions, Nikola Tower commonly known as Wardenclyffee tower, Global communication system. He got permission for his project in 1901, but later this project went side track which lead the scientific and economic downfall of the venture.

Tesla determined to bring life to his dream, Wireless telecommunication system. In the year 1900, the stylish sought financing from J.P Morgan during 1901. He decided to invest $150,000 for the construction of Wardenclyffe Tower.

Morgan was very much impressed by the achievements of G Macroni, who was the rival in this technology race, but Tesla succeeded in pulling him into this project. Tesla Added “we can able to call anyone from the desk we are sitting through out the globe”, which makes everyone convince.

Tesla’s Vision

He was very clear and he imagined the information society in which we currently living. A small invention which can be keep in pocket that can make us to listen to any music, here anywhere, listen to any political speech irrespective of how much of distant we are, along with this we can share and receive images, drawings from such a plant of this kind.

With the help of Morgan’s investment, Tesla bought the 200 acre land on Island near New York,large generators and electrical transformers from Westinghouse Electric company and he hired the architect Stanford White, they both together came up building 187 feet wooden tower with a hemispherical metal dome 68 feet in diameter, along with this a house for research laboratories and other functionalities of the the tower to be taken has built.

The Tower was to begin in august, but Tesla had already changed his idealizations as Marconi was already succeeded in managing to transmit radio signals between France and England. In June Marconi published some details of his transmission technology in magazine ELECTRICAL REVIEW, this publication mentioned about the Tesla coils connected to ground which lead Tesla lost in thoughts that Marconi was copying his idea.

Theory without Evidence

In 1899, during his inventions he succeeded to wirelessly light bulbs where he had powered up a large “TESLA COIL”. He believed that he achieved the terrestrial resonance he wants which he thought can work for any distance. Which makes him enough to prove his ideas and gain upper hand over Marconi. Later, Tesla came up with proposal to Morgan that not only sending messages across globe but he would transmit electricity to any distance without cables.

To achieve this, he felt that would need a tower almost double the height (300 feet) and, of course, much more money. Morgan refused to increase the investment and Tesla had to start the construction of the Wardenclyffe Tower in September 1901, sticking to the original plan. Two months later, the project received another blow that Marconi had managed to transmit the letter “S” in Morse code across the ocean, from England to Canada. In that era of financial uncertainty, investors preferred to bet on the Marconi system, which, having been less ambitious, had achieved historic success.

Tesla never gave up. He finished the Wardenclyffe Tower in 1902 and carried out experiments there until 1905, without managing to launch his beloved telecommunications station, the first of a great worldwide network. That year his alternating current patents got expired where this was the remaining source of funding. Tesla made a second mortgage of Wardenclyffe tower, to cover his debts at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which reached but he still had to abandon the project, which the press was beginning to label a “hoax”. After years of neglect and deterioration, Tesla lost ownership in 1915 as he was unable to repay the mortgages. The Wardenclyffe Tower was demolished in 1917 and the main building ended up being a factory.

In 2013, a successful campaign was launched by the creator of the web comic The Oatmeal to repurchase the property and to construct on the site the Tesla Science Museum, in honour of a great inventor who, after the failure of Wardenclyffe, never made any of his revolutionary ideas come true again.

Note: The above information is gathered from the Internet sources and all the research i’ve done till date on Wireless Electricity and Wardenclyffe Tower.

Author: Mihir Bommisetty