Wardenclyffe Tower Free Energy for All

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Wardenclyffe TowerFree Energy for All?

• Presented by
• Anuhya Uppula
• Eng 24 Seminar
• 4/17/06

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When Did it Happen?

• 5 years after Niagara Falls went on-air
• Right after Colorado Springs experiments
• Construction took place between years 1901-1917

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Where Did it Happen?

• Located in Long Island
• A remote place, 65 miles from Brooklyn
• The place was called Wardenclyffe after James
  Warden
• It was 200 acres of land

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Why Did it Happen?

• There was tension about who, Tesla or Marconi,
  would be first in creating a radio signal
  transmission.
• The future he envisioned with his inventions is
  the one we are witnessing today they include
  interconnected radio-telephone networks,
  synchronized time signals, instantaneous stock
  reports, pocket receivers, private
  communications, press radio service. This he
  collectively called World System of
  intelligent transmission.

Portrait of the envisioned World System
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• His promotional brochure for World System
  included the following

• The interconnection of the existing telegraph
  exchanges or offices all around the world
• The establishment of a secret and noninterferable
  government telegraph service
• The interconnection of all the present telephone
  exchanges or office on the globe
• The universal distribution of general news, by
  telegraph or telephone, in connection with the
  press
• The establishment of intelligence transmission
  for exclusive private use
• The interconnection and operation of all stock
  tickers of the world
• The establishment of a World System of musical
  distribution, etc
• The universal registration of time by cheap
  clocks indicating the hour with astronomical
  precision and requiring no 9. attention whatever
• The world transmission of typed or handwritten
  characters, letters, etc,
• The establishment of a universal marine service
  enabling the navigators of all ships to steer
  perfectly without 11. compass, to determine the
  exact location, hour, and speed to prevent
  collisions and disasters, etc,
• The inauguration of a system of world printing on
  land and sea
• The world reproduction of photographic pictures
  and all kinds of drawings or records.

• All this he wanted to demonstrate with his secret
  technology of wireless power transmission.

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What exactly was it?

• The project was meant to transmit power
  wirelessly. In order to do so, energy needs to be
  in high frequency waves so it can be focused
  without getting diluted before reaching the
  destination.
• Disturbed charge of ground and air method.
• 1) Type-one design atmospheric conduction- Telsa
  wished to use the Earths charged layer of
  atmosphere (known as the ionosphere) as a
  conductor of energy.
• 2) Type-two design earths resonance- the earth
  would act as a conductor.

Two of Teslas magnifier designs used as a power
source.
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Free Energy

• Free Energy creating standing waves inside the
  earth (called resonance) requires minimal energy.
  Anyone can then tap into the earth and take
  energy from the surface. This energy is
  essentially free.
• The Tower could magnify energy of the earth
  (through resonance) and transmit it to different
  parts of the world. Therefore, it was also known
  as 'Magnifying Transmitter.

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The Tower

• The transmitting station is an octagonal tower
  and pyramidal in shape.
• 187 feet high
• Inside the tower, an electromagnetic oscillator
  could emit frequences from extra low to the extra
  high range.
• The sphere being built on the top of the tower
  was 55 tons of steel. The ball was to act as a
  capacitator, to hold electrical energy and
  release it as and when needed.
• Iron pipes dived 300 feet into the Earth.
• In Teslas words, it is necessary for the
  machine to get a grip of the earth, otherwise it
  cannot shake the earth. It has to have a grip so
  that the whole of this globe can quiver.

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Who was Involved?

• J.P Morgan was Teslas only investor.
• The Tower is named after James Warden, who gave
  Tesla the land for the building.
• Stanford White and W.D. Crow, two of the most
  famous architects were involved in building the
  tower.

Some workers of the project sitting at the base
of the towers foundation.
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Did it Succeed?

• In a sense, the project did not succeed because
  it was abandoned due to lack of funds.
• The economy did not favor the situation
  inflation worsened the situation and Tesla was
  forced to reveal his true plans for wireless
  power transmission.
• The project was abandoned without ever building
  the spherical steel ball at the top.
• Newspapers of the time labeled Wardenclyffe
  "Tesla's million-dollar folly."
• He cursed the world for his once again-occcured
  misfortune, It is not a dream but a simple feat
  of scientific electrical engineering, only
  expensiveblind, fainthearted, doubting world

• Remains of the Tesla Wireless Tower Base at the
  Wardenclyffe plant on Long Island after removal
  of tower.  It appears the shaft's wooden shoring
  has given way, allowing the surrounding soil to
  be washed into the hole.  In this photo the
  undercut portion of the concrete foundation is in
  the process of collapse.

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• In another sense, the project did succeed
  Teslas visions for a World System have come
  true. We have only to look at satellites, radios,
  and GPS (Global Positioning System) to observe
  Teslas century old dream come true.

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• The End