Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

USA / New York / Shoreham /
 museum, laboratories, interesting place, 1901_construction, 1902_construction, 1900s construction
This is where Nikola Tesla's wireless electricity distribution experiments were carried out. While the tower no longer stands, the main laboratory building by Stanford White is still extant.

Supposedly, this tower was able to tap into the potential difference between the ionesphere and the planet surface. By boring a hole up through the native capacitance of the atmosphere into the ionesphere (using 40 MHz bursts of energy), a direct short could be created whereby an endless stream of electrical energy could be tapped and voila: Free energy.

Tesla eventually died, literally pennyless, on January 7th, 1943. It is rather sad that a man who gave the world so much, received so little for his efforts. History books have been unkind as well. Even today, many texts still credit Marconi with the invention of radio, despite the Supreme Court decision which overruled the Marconi patent, awarding it to Tesla. In many parts of this country, people still refer to the electric utility as the 'Edison Company', even though they use the Tesla-Westinghouse alternating current system, NOT Edison's direct current. At the Niagra Falls power generating station, a small statue of Tesla is purposely left unilluminated at night. It has been said that Tesla is the Forgotten Father of Technology. Tesla himself once commented "... The present is theirs. (skeptics of the day) The future, for which I really worked, is mine."

In 2012, comic book artist, Matt Inman, launched an effort to purchase this property and develop a museum in Tesla's honor. Using crowdfunding from Indiegogo, Inman set a goal of raising $850,000 in 45 days. That money, together with an equal matching grant from the State of New York would be sufficient to purchase the property. Inman's project was a success having raised over $1 million in just nine days.

www.teslasciencecenter.org
www.atlasobscura.com/places/tesla-s-wardenclyffe-labora...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
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Coordinates:   40°56'53"N   72°53'55"W

Comments

  • Tesla was the Greatest Serbian - American. God bless him.
  • People comment (truthfully) on how brilliant the man was and look what he got. Isn't that a 'kick in the head'.
  • to bad he wasn't given the time of day.
  • Elon Muck of Tesla Autos is contributing $1,000,000 to the museum and will have a Tesla S model car supercharging station built here.
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