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"We are on the threshold of a gigantic revolution, based on the wireless transmission of power", wrote the Croatian electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, then in his 70s, in the 1930s. "We will be enabled to illuminate the whole sky at night _ eventually we will flash power in virtually unlimited amounts to (other) planets."
The modern world owes a great deal to Tesla's vision: alternating current, radio (he pipped Marconi to the post by at least three years), radio-controlled vehicles and fluorescent lighting are among his more mundane creations. Others remain highly esoteric, perhaps none more so than universal energy, in which power would be drawn from the air itself and supplied to homes, machinery and vehicles, without wires or cables.
The trick, Tesla thought, was to use the air of the upper atmosphere to transmit energy - over any distance, above or through the Earth, even to other planets. Power would be beamed to a terminal in the upper atmosphere, then transmitted to receivers on the ground or in the air. The risks were potentially high - "So strangely do such powerful discharges behave," he wrote in 1899, "that I have often experienced a fear that the atmosphere might be ignited."
Tesla sought to build a tower on America's east coast to transmit radio messages and, ultimately, power across the Atlantic. Initial work at the Wardenclyffe site produced spectacular light displays that were seen for miles around, but Tesla's ever-precarious financial situation meant the tower was never completed.
Despite his reputation as a visionary and genius, Tesla's refusal to compromise his ideas saw a steady decline in his fortunes. His pronouncements about the future of radio communications, universal energy and robot technologies commanded front page news but with successive wars and the Great Depression his utopian dreams drew ever further from reality.
With his lonely death in 1943, many of the secretive inventor's papers were lost, leaving only speculation and mystery behind. Although his more fanciful notions, such as universal energy, seem unlikely to have succeeded, Tesla's legacy surrounds us, and he lives on as an avatar of far out science.
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