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Nikola Tesla's Idea of Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy is a solution for World Energy Crisis

The following are past newspaper articles more than 100 years old which were taken from the Tesla Collection. These are unique original articles about the wireless transmission of electrical energy printed at the time when Tesla was alive.

Articles:

  • The New York Journal, Sunday, August 8, 1897 : "Tesla Has Fired the Spark Flashed Round the World"
  • New York American, May 22, 1904: Tesla's Tower - Amazing Scheme of the Great Inventor to Draw Millions of Volts of Electricity Through the Air From Niagara Falls and Then Feed It Out to Cities, Factories and Privat Houses from the Tops of the Towers Without Wires

Nikola Tesla
Above: Nikola Tesla in his laboratory, 1916, in 8th West 40th Street, New York City.

Tesla Tower

Above: The Famous Tesla Tower erected in Shoreham, Long Island, New York was 187 feet high, the spherical top was 68 feet in diameter.  The Tower, which was to be used by Nikola Tesla is his "World Wireless" was never finished.


Tesla Tower

Above: New York American, May 22, 1904: Tesla's Tower - Amazing Scheme of the Great Inventor to Draw Millions of Volts of Electricity Through the Air From Niagara Falls and Then Feed It Out to Cities, Factories and Privat Houses from the Tops of the Towers Without Wires.

Electrical Experimenter

Above: American Newspaper Article - The Electrical Experimenter on September, 1917. The Article depicts the destruction of the famous Tesla Tower, erected at Shoreham, Long Island, New York. Tesla wanted to transmit electricity from a power plant in Niagara Falls to the world using his Tower.

Tesla Tower
Above: Tesla's Wireless "World System"

Tesla Tower

Above: Tesla's Wireless "World System" To Turn Earth into Once Gigantic Dynamo.

Tesla Tower
Above: Nikola Tesla first interview describing his new system for supplying wireless power to run all the Earth's Industries.

Tesla Tower

Above: The New York Journal, Sunday, August 8, 1897 : "Tesla Has Fired the Spark Flashed Round the World"

Tesla Tower

Above: The New York Journal, Sunday, August 8, 1897 : "Tesla Has Fired the Spark Flashed Round the World"

Tesla Tower

Above: The New York Journal, Sunday, August 8, 1897 : "Tesla Has Fired the Spark Flashed Round the World"