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<p>Oliver Nichelson
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333 N 760 E
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Am. Fork, Utah 84003</p>
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<p> Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s Long Range Weapon</p>
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<p> Oliver Nichelson
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Copyright 1989</p>
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<p>
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The French ship Iena blew up in 1907. Electrical experts were
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sought by the press for an explanation. Many thought the explosion
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was caused by an electrical spark and the discussion was about the
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origin of the ignition. Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion
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vacuum tube adopted by many radio broadcasters, pointed out that
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Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> had experimented with a "dirigible torpedo" capable of
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delivering such destructive power to a ship through remote control.
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He noted, though, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> also claimed that the same technology used
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for remotely controlling vehicles also could project an electrical
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wave of "sufficient intensity to cause a spark in a ship's magazine
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and explode it." </p>
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<p> It was Spring of 1924, however, that the time seemed best for
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"death rays," for that year many newspapers carried a several
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stories about their invention in different parts of the world.
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Harry Grindell-Matthews of London lead the contenders in this early
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Star Wars race. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span> of May 21st had this report:</p>
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<p> Paris, May 20 - If confidence of Grindell
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Mathew (sic), inventor of the so-called
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'diabolical ray,' in his discovery is
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justified it may become possible to put the
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whole of an enemy army out of action, destroy
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any force of airplanes attacking a city or
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paralyze any fleet venturing within a
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certain distance of the coast by invisible
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rays.
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Grindell-Matthews stated that his destructive rays would operate
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over a distance of four miles and that the maximum distance for
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this type of weapon would be seven or eight miles. "Tests have been
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reported where the ray has been used to stop the operation of
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automobiles by arresting the action of the magnetos, and an
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quantity of gunpowder is said to have been exploded by playing the
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beams on it from a distance of thirty-six feet." Grindell-Matthews
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was able, also, to electrocute mice, shrivel plants, and light the
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wick of an oil lamp from the same distance away.</p>
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<p> Sensing something of importance the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span> copyrighted
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its story on May 28th on a ray weapon developed by the Soviets. The
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story opened:</p>
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<p> News has leaked out from the Communist
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circles in Moscow that behind Trotsky's
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recent war-like utterance lies an
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electromagnetic invention, by a <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span>
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engineer named <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Grammachikoff</span> for destroying
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airplanes.
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Tests of the destructive ray, the Times continued, had began the
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previous August with the aid of German technical experts. A large
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scale demonstration at Podosinsky Aerodome near Moscow was so
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successful that the revolutionary Military Council and the
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Political Bureau decided to fund enough electronic anti-aircraft
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stations to protect sensitive areas of Russia. Similar, but more
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powerful, stations were to be constructed to disable the electrical
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mechanisms of warships.</p>
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<p> The Commander of the Soviet Air Services, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Rosenholtz</span>, was so
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overwhelmed by the ray weapon demonstration that he proposed "to
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curtail the activity of the air fleet, because the invention
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rendered a large air fleet unnecessary for the purpose of defense."</p>
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<p> Picking up the death ray stories on the wire services on the
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other side of the world, the Colorado Springs Gazette, ran a local
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interest item on May 30th. With the headline: "<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> Discovered
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'Death Ray' in Experiments He Made Here," the story recounted, with
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a feeling of local pride, the inventor's 1899 researches financed
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by John Jacob Astor. </p>
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<p>
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s Colorado Springs tests were well remembered by local
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residents. With a 200 foot pole topped by a large copper sphere
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rising above his laboratory he generated potentials that discharged
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lightning bolts up to 135 feet long. Thunder from the released
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energy could be heard 15 miles away in Cripple Creek. People
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walking along the streets were amazed to see sparks jumping between
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their feet and the ground, and flames of electricity would spring
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from a tap when anyone turned them on for a drink of water. Light
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bulbs within 100 feet of the experimental tower glowed when they
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were turned off. Horses at the livery stable received shocks
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through their metal shoes and bolted from the stalls. Even insects
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were affected: <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Butterflies</span> became electrified and "helplessly
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swirled in circles - their wings spouting blue halos of 'St. Elmo's
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Fire.'"</p>
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<p> The most pronounced effect, and the one that captured the
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attention of death ray inventors, occurred at the Colorado Springs
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Electric Company generating station. One day while <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was
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conducting a high power test, the crackling from inside the
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laboratory suddenly stopped. Bursting into the lab <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> demanded
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to know why his assistant had disconnected the coil. The assistant
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protested that had not anything. The power from the city's
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generator, the assistant said, must have quit. When the angry
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> telephoned the power company he received an equally angry
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reply that the electric company had not cut the power, but that
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s experiment had destroyed the generator!</p>
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<p> The inventor explained to The Electrical Experimenter, in
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August of 1917 what had happened. While running his transmitter at
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a power level of "several hundred kilowatts" high frequency
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currents were set up in the electric company's generators. These
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powerful currents "caused heavy sparks to jump thru the winds and
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destroy the insulation." When the insulation failed, the generator
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shorted out and was destroyed.</p>
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<p> Some years later, 1935, he elaborated on the destructive
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potential of his transmitter in the February issue of Liberty
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magazine:</p>
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<p> My invention requires a large plant, but once
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it is established it will be possible to
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destroy anything, men or machines, approaching
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within a radius of 200 miles. </p>
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<p> He went on to make a distinction between his invention and those
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brought forward by others. He claimed that his device did not use
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any so-called "death rays" because such radiation cannot be
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produced in large amounts and rapidly becomes weaker over distance.
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Here, he likely had in mind a Grindell-Matthews type of device
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which, according to contemporary reports, used a powerful ultra-violet beam to make the air conducting so that high energy current
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could be directed to the target. The range of an ultra-violet
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searchlight would be much less than what <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was claiming. As he
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put it: "all the energy of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York City</span> (approximately two million
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horsepower [1.5 billion watts]) transformed into rays and projected
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twenty miles, would not kill a human being." On the contrary, he
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said:
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My apparatus projects particles which may
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be relatively large or of microscopic di-mensions, enabling us to convey to a small
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area at a great distance trillions of times
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more energy than is possible with rays of any
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kind. Many thousands of horsepower can be thus
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transmitted by a stream thinner than a hair, so
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that nothing can resist.</p>
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<p> Apparently what <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> had in mind with this defensive system was
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a large scale version of his Colorado Springs lightning bolt
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machine. As airplanes or ships entered the electric field of his
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charged tower, they would set up a conducting path for a stream of
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high energy particles that would destroy the intruder's electrical
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system. </p>
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<p> A drawback to having giant <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> transmitters poised to shoot
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bolts of lightning at an enemy approaching the coasts is that they
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would have to be located in an uninhabited area equal to its circle
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of protection. Anyone stepping into the defensive zone of the coils
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would be sensed as an intruder and struck down. Today, with the
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development of oil drilling platforms, this disadvantage might be
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overcome by locating the lightning defensive system at sea. </p>
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<p> As ominous as death ray and beam weapon technology will be for
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the future, there is another, more destructive, weapon system
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alluded to in <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s writings. </p>
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<p> When <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> realized, as he pointed out in the 1900 Century
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article, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy," that economic
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forces would not allow the development of a new type of electrical
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generator able to supply power without burning fuel he "was led to
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recognize [that] the transmission of electrical energy to any
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distance through the media as by far the best solution of the great
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problem of harnessing the sun's energy for the use of man." His
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idea was that a relatively few generating plants located near
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waterfalls would supply his very high energy transmitters which, in
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turn, would send power through the earth to be picked up wherever
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it was needed.</p>
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<p> The plan would require several of his transmitters to
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rhythmically pump huge amounts of electricity into the earth at
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pressures on the order of 100 million volts. The earth would
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become like a huge ball inflated to a great electrical potential,
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but pulsing to <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s imposed beat.</p>
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<p> Receiving energy from this high pressure reservoir only would
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require a person to put a rod into the ground and connect it to a
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receiver operating in unison with the earth's electrical motion.
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As <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> described it, "the entire apparatus for lighting the
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average country dwelling will contain no moving parts whatever, and
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could be readily carried about in a small valise." </p>
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<p> However, the difference between a current that can be used to
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run, say, a sewing machine and a current used as a method of
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destruction, however, is a matter of timing. If the amount of
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electricity used to run a sewing machine for an hour is released in
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a millionth of a second, it would have a very different, and
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negative, effect on the sewing machine.</p>
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<p>
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of
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pressure with currents up to 1000 amperes which is a power level of
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100 billion watts. If it was resonating at a radio frequency of 2
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MHz, then the energy released during one period of its oscillation
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would be 100000000000000000 Joules of energy, or roughly the
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amount of energy released by the explosion of 10 megatons of TNT.
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Such a transmitter, would be capable of projecting the energy of
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a nuclear warhead by radio. Any location in the world could be
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vaporized at the speed of light.</p>
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<p> Not unexpectedly, many scientists doubted the technical
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feasibility of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s wireless power transmission scheme whether
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for commercial or military purposes. The secret of how through-the-earth broadcast power was found not in the theories of
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electrical engineering, but in the realm of high energy physics.</p>
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<p> Dr. Andrija Puharich, in 1976, was the first to point out that
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s power transmission system could not be explained by the
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laws of classical electrodynamics, but, rather, in terms of
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relativistic transformations in high energy fields. He noted that
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according to Dirac's theory of the electron, when one of those
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particles encountered its oppositely charged member, a positron,
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the two particles would annihilate each other. Because energy can
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neither be destroyed nor created the energy of the two former
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particles are transformed into an electromagnetic wave. The
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opposite, of course, holds true. If there is a strong enough
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electric field, two opposite charges of electricity are formed
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where there was originally no charge at all. This type of trans-formation usually takes place near the intense field near an atomic
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nucleus, but it can also manifest without the aid of a nuclear
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catalyst if an electric field has enough energy. Puharich's
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involved mathematical treatment demonstrated that power levels in a
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> transmitter were strong enough to cause such pair production.</p>
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<p> The mechanism of pair production offers a very attractive
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explanation for the ground transmission of power. Ordinary
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electrical currents do not travel far through the earth. Dirt has
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a high resistance to electricity and quickly turns currents into
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heat energy that is wasted. With the pair production method
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electricity can be moved from one point to another without really
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having to push the physical particle through the earth - the
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transmitting source would create a strong field, and a particle
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would be created at the receiver. </p>
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<p> If the sending of currents through the earth is possible from the
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viewpoint of modern physics, the question remains of whether <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>
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actually demonstrated the weapons application of his power
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transmitter or whether it remained an unrealized plan on the part
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of the inventor. Circumstantial evidence points to there having
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been a test of this weapon.</p>
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<p> The clues are found in the chronology of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s work and
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financial fortunes between 1900 and 1915.</p>
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<p> 1900: <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> returned from Colorado Springs after a series of
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important tests of wireless power transmission. It was during
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these tests that his magnifying transmitter sent out waves of
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energy causing the destruction of the power company's generator. </p>
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<p> He received financial backing from J. Pierpont Morgan of $150000
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to build a radio transmitter for signaling Europe. With the first
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portion of the money he obtained 200 acres of land at Shoreham,
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Long Island and built an enormous tower 187 feet tall topped with a
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55 ton, 68 foot metal dome. He called the research site
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"Wardenclyffe."</p>
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<p> As <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was just getting started, investors were rushing to buy
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stock offered by the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span> company. Supporters of the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span>
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Company include his old adversary Edison.</p>
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<p> On December 12th, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span> sent the first transatlantic signal,
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the letter "S," from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland. He did
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this with, as the financiers noted, equipment much less costly than
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that envisioned by <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>.</p>
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<p> 1902: <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span> is being hailed as a hero around the world while
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> is seen as a shirker by the public for ignoring a call to
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jury duty in a murder case (he was excused from duty because of his
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opposition to the death penalty).</p>
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<p> 1903: When Morgan sent the balance of the $150000, it would not
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cover the outstanding balance <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> owed on the Wardenclyffe
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construction. To encourage a larger investment in the face of
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span>'s success, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> revealed to Morgan his real purpose was
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not to just send radio signals but the wireless transmission of
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power to any point on the planet. Morgan was uninterested and
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declined further funding. </p>
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<p> A financial panic that Fall put an end to <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s hopes for
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financing by Morgan or other wealthy industrialists. This left
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> without money even to buy the coal to fire the transmitter's
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electrical generators.</p>
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<p> 1904: <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> writes for the Electrical World, "The Transmission of
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Electrical Energy Without Wires," noting that the globe, even with
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its great size, responds to electrical currents like a small metal
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ball. </p>
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<p>
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> declares to the press the completion of Wardenclyffe.</p>
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<p> 1904: The Colorado Springs power company sues for electricity
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used at that experimental station. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s Colorado laboratory is
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torn down and is sold for lumber to pay the $180 judgement; his
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electrical equipment is put in storage.</p>
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<p> 1905: Electrotherapeutic coils are manufactured at Wardenclyffe
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for hospitals and researchers to help pay bills.</p>
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<p>
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> is sued by his lawyer for non-payment of a loan.
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In an article, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> comments on Peary's expedition to the <span class="LOC" title="LOC">North</span>
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Pole and tells of his, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s, plans for energy transmission to
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any central point on the ground. </p>
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<p>
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> is sued by C.J. Duffner, a caretaker at the experi-mental
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station in Colorado Springs, for wages .</p>
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<p> 1906: "Left Property Here; Skips; Sheriff's Sale," was
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the headline in the Colorado Springs Gazette for March 6th.
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s electrical equipment is sold to pay judgement
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of $928.57. </p>
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<p> George Westinghouse, who bought <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s patents for alter-nating
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current motors and generators in the 1880's, turns down the
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inventor's power transmission proposal.</p>
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<p> Workers gradually stop coming to the Wardenclyffe labor-atory
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when there are no funds to pay them.</p>
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<p> 1907: When commenting on the destruction of the French ship Iena,
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> noted in a letter to the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span> that he has built and
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tested remotely controlled torpedoes, but that electrical waves
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would be more destructive. "As to projecting wave energy to any
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particular region of the globe ... this can be done by my devices,"
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he wrote. Further, he claimed that "the spot at which the desired
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effect is to be produced can be calculated very closely, assuming
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the accepted terrestrial measurements to be correct."</p>
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<p> 1908: <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> repeated the idea of destruction by electrical waves
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to the newspaper on April 21st. His letter to the editor stated,
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"When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted
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by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial
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engines or other implements of destruction." He added: "This is
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not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by
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which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable
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without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger
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or inconvenience."</p>
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<p> 1915: Again, in another letter to the editor, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> stated: "It
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is perfectly practical to transmit electrical energy without wires
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and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already
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constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible...
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When unavoidable, the [transmitter] may be used to destroy property
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and life."</p>
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<p> Important to this chronology is the state of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s mental
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health. One researcher, Marc J. Seifer, a psychologist, believes
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> suffered a nervous breakdown catalyzed by the death of one
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the partners in the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> Electric Company and the shooting of
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Stanford White, the noted architect, who had designed Wardenclyffe.
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Seifer places this in 1906 and cites as evidence a letter from
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George Scherff, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s secretary:</p>
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<p> Wardenclyffe, 4/10/1906
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Dear Mr. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>:</p>
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<p> I have received your letter and am very glad
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to know you are vanquishing your illness. I
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have scarcely ever seen you so out of sorts
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as last Sunday; and I was frightened.</p>
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<p> In the period from 1900 to 1910 <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s creative thrust was to
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establish his plan for wireless transmission of energy. Undercut
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by <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Marconi</span>'s accomplishment, beset by financial problems, and
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spurned by the scientific establishment, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> was in a desperate
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situation by mid-decade. The strain became too great by 1906 and
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he suffered an emotional collapse. In order to make a final effort
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to have his grand scheme recognized, he may have tried one high
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power test of his transmitter to show off its destructive
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potential. This would have been in 1908.</p>
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<p> The Tunguska event took place on the morning of June 30th, 1908.
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An explosion estimated to be equivalent to 10-15 megatons of TNT
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flattened 500000 acres of pine forest near the Stony Tunguska
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River in central Siberia. Whole herds of reindeer were destroyed.
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The explosion was heard over a radius of 620 miles. When an
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expedition was made to the area in 1927 to find evidence of the
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meteorite presumed to have caused the blast, no impact crater was
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found. When the ground was drilled for pieces of nickel, iron, or
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stone, the main constituents of meteorites, none were found down to
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a depth of 118 feet.</p>
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<p> Many explanations have been given for the Tunguska event. The
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officially accepted version is that a 100000 ton fragment of
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Encke's Comet, composed mainly of dust and ice, entered the
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atmosphere at 62000 mph, heated up, and exploded over the earth's
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surface creating a fireball and shock wave but no crater.
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Alternative versions of the disaster see a renegade mini-black hole
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or an alien space ship crashing into the earth with the resulting
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release of energy. </p>
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<p> Associating <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> with the Tunguska event comes close to putting
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the inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative
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category as ancient astronauts. However, by looking at the above
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chronology, it can be seen that real historical facts point to the
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possibility that this event was caused by a test firing of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s
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energy weapon.</p>
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<p> In 1907 and 1908, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> wrote about the destructive effects of
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his energy transmitter. His Wardenclyffe transmitter was much
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larger than the Colorado Springs device that destroyed the power
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station's generator. His new transmitter would be capable of
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effects many orders of magnitude greater than the Colorado device.
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In 1915, he said he had already built a transmitter that "when
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unavoidable ... may be used to destroy property and life."
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Finally, a 1934 letter from <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> to J.P. Morgan, uncovered by
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> biographer Margaret Cheney, seems to conclusively point to an
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energy weapon test. In an effort to raise money for his defensive
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system he wrote:</p>
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<p> The flying machine has completely demoralized
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the world, so much so that in some cities, as
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London and Paris, people are in mortal fear from
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aerial bombing. The new means I have perfected
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affords absolute protection against this and
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other forms of attack... These new discoveries I
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have carried out experimentally on a limited
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scale, created a profound impression (emphasis added).</p>
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<p> Again, the evidence is circumstantial but, to use the language of
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criminal investigation, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> had motive and means to be the cause
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of the Tunguska event. He also seems to confess to such a test
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having taken place before 1915. His transmitter could generate
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energy levels and frequencies that would release the destructive
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force of 10 megatons, or more, of TNT. And the overlooked genius
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was desperate.</p>
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<p> The nature of the Tunguska event, also, is not inconsistent with
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what would happen during the sudden release of wireless power. No
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fiery object was reported in the skies at that time by professional
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or amateur astronomers as would be expected when a 200000000
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pound object enters the atmosphere. The sky glow in the region,
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mentioned by some witnesses, just before the explosion may have
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come from the ground, as geological researchers discovered in the
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1970's. Just before an earthquake the stressed rock beneath the
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ground creates an electrical effect causing the air to illuminate.
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If the explosion was caused by wireless energy transmission, either
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the geological stressing or the current itself would cause an air
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glow. Finally, there is the absence of an impact crater. Because
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there is no material object to impact, an explosion caused by
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broadcast power would not leave a crater.</p>
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<p> Given <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s general pacifistic nature it is hard to
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understand why he would carry out a test harmful to both animals
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and the people who herded the animals even when he was in the grip
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of financial desperation. The answer is that he probably intended
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no harm, but was aiming for a publicity coup and, literally, missed
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his target.</p>
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<p> At the end of 1908, the whole world was following the daring
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attempt of Peary to reach the <span class="LOC" title="LOC">North Pole</span>. Peary claimed the Pole
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in the Spring of 1909, but the winter before he had returned to the
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base at Ellesmere Island, about 700 miles from the Pole. If <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>
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wanted the attention of the international press, few things would
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have been more impressive than the Peary expedition sending out
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word of a cataclysmic explosion on the ice in the direction of the
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<span class="LOC" title="LOC">North Pole</span>. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>, then, if he could not be hailed as the master
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creator that he was, could be seen as the master of a mysterious
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new force of destruction.</p>
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<p> The test, it seems, was not a complete success. It must
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have been difficult controlling the vast amount of power in
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transmitter and guiding it to the exact spot <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> wanted. Alert,
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<span class="GPE" title="GPE">Canada</span> on Ellesmere Island and the Tunguska region are all on the
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same great circle line from Shoreham, Long Island. Both are on a
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compass bearing of a little more than 2 degrees along a polar path.
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The destructive electrical wave overshot its target.</p>
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<p> Whoever was privy to <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s energy weapon demonstration must
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have been dismayed either because it missed the intended target and
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would be a threat to inhabited regions of the planet, or because it
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worked too well in devastating such a large area at the mere
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throwing of a switch thousands of miles away. Whichever was the
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case, <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> never received the notoriety he sought for his power
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transmitter.</p>
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<p> In 1915, the Wardenclyffe laboratory was deeded over to Waldorf-Astoria, Inc. in lieu of payment for <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span>'s hotel bills. In 1917,
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Wardenclyffe was dynamited on orders of the new owners to recover
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some money from the scrap.</p>
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<p> The evidence is only circumstantial. Perhaps <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> never did
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achieve wireless power transmission through the earth. Maybe he
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made a mistake in interpreting the results of his radio tests in
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Colorado Springs and did not produce an effect engineers, then and
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now, know is a scientific impossibility. Perhaps the mental stress
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he suffered caused him to retreat completely to a fantasy world
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from which he would send out preposterous claims to reporters who
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gathered for his yearly, copy-making pronouncements on his
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birthday. Maybe the atomic bomb size explosion in Siberia near the
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turn of the century was the result of a meteorite no one saw fall.
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Or, perhaps, Nikola <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Tesla</span> did shake the world in a way that has
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been kept secret for over 80 years.
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ansmitter</p>
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