Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

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Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

Post by neilwilkes » Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:39 am

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower
Especially the part where Tesla is quoted (with citation, for once) as stating:
A point of great importance would be first to know what is the capacity of the Earth? and what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the Earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies—and this is the accepted view of its origin—it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.[23]
(the "23" is the Citation, from "Experiments With Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination," AIEE, Columbia College, N.Y., May 20, 1891)

In short - the Earth is a charged body.....I wonder if he realised the Sun was also an electrical device?

Also quoted is this famous statement
It is intended to give practical demonstrations of these principles with the plant illustrated. As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. More important than all of this, however, will be the transmission of power, without wires, which will be shown on a scale large enough to carry conviction
No wonder all his documents were seized after death.
We cannot possibly have this type of thing going on, it seems.
It would be uninterceptable & unmeterable.
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Re: Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

Post by mharratsc » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:56 am

This probably doesn't belong here under 'Planetary Science', but I've got two things to say about what you posted here before it gets moved off.

Firstly- can you imagine what Tesla would've come up with if he'd had some communications with Birkeland?? Wow! :shock:


Secondly- it sounds like Mr. Tesla was talking about frequency-modulating the Earth's voltage? Much akin to how modern day AC-line local area networking works (quadrature-amplitude-modulating info onto building AC power lines to carry TCP/IP data between computers connected with 'Power Plug' networking adaptors.)

I will say he was a genius... but he woulda played Hell with wave packet collisions and addressability of his remote data with the technology available of his day! :D

Truly visionary tho! Way ahead of his time...
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Re: Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

Post by Jarvamundo » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:15 pm

This probably doesn't belong here under 'Planetary Science'
Whilst i suppose it should be separated, so as to not confuse with the main 'planetary scarring' and catastrophe theories of the EU body of work, the Tesla wireless system is highly relevant to planetary science, since it is transmission of electricity through 'the planet'.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... f=7&t=3713
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... f=4&t=3395
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... =15#p39924
Alexanderson as well as Marconi engineers understood that the Flat Top aerial and its adaptation by Alexanderson operated as an antenna for the propagation of electro-static rather than electro-magnetic waves. therefore the Alexanderson aerial operates as a system for the transmission and reception of dielectric waves through its external dielectric field. Part of this dielectric field of induction is directed by the earthed ground structure into the interior of the earth. This induction gives rise to the propagation of tellurrc waves is a manner similar to that of Tesla
There exists plenty enough public documentation and working models to re-create this system.

Hardly a mad idea - since working models are in action
Hardly a new insight - 1800's public patents
Future of science? - forgotten past?

...we're do we put this confronting stuff? :? these human science conundrums become 'that tesla feelin'

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Re: Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

Post by MrAmsterdam » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:04 am

I have but two questions. How many devices in your vicinity at this moment are based on tesla's inventions?
Now tell me, why this great inventor is not described in the schoolbooks?

If Tesla is describing earth and other objects as charged bodies, we should pay attention.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. -Nikola Tesla -1934

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Re: Tesla - Wireless transmission of electricity

Post by popster1 » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:51 pm

MrAmsterdam wrote:
I have but two questions. How many devices in your vicinity at this moment are based on tesla's inventions?
Now tell me, why this great inventor is not described in the schoolbooks?
In part, because he did not have a large corporation like Edison's General Electric to promote his memory.
I've lived long enough to see nearly everything I ever believed to be true disproved at least once.

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