The Tesla Tower: The Incredible Story of the World's Most Powerful Wireless Energy System 

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Remember 107 microwave towers from the 1950’s? The first practical wireless network, very expensive. It required clear sight point to point. AT&T used it for transmission of long distance phone calls.

Thank you Mr Tesla for the AC motor and all the other devices that turned out to be the basics of most of the electric system we have now.

Built a Tesla Coil from scratch with plans out of MAKE magazine. Scary as heck and cool AF at the same time!

You see that small red TV in the intro? My first computer had this exact model as a monitor. Good times !

A truly brilliant mind. We owe him for so much of what we take for granted today.

I learned about Tesla in college. He truly was way ahead of his time and a genius. It’s a shame that he wasn’t able to realize his dream of wireless communication. I’d guess that he would be in awe of what we take for granted today.

I've read many books on Tesla back in the 80's. It's why I went into electronics.

He was born in Croatia, that was part of Austro-Hungary in 1856, Yugoslavia was not even a thing before the end of ww1

OK I'm excited for this one! Love the channel

Great idea men sometimes end up with ideas that are ahead of their time or just plain don't work. At other times, an inability to sell their ideas is a big problem. Still, they are the people who move the world forward, however haltingly.

Einstein was asked once what it was like to be the smartest human on earth, he responded with: "I don't know, you'd have to ask Nikola Tesla"

Simon, you need to make a video on the ENIAC! Ive been waiting for years. It would make any early computer need go wild

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The world wireless system 2:40 - Mid roll ads 3:45 - Back to the video 4:50 - Chapter 2 - Deep pockets 6:40 - Chapter 3 - A change in plans 8:00 - Chapter 4 - Construction begins & ends 10:50 - Chapter 5 - Breakdowns 11:55 - Chapter 6 - The check comes 13:00 - Chapter 7 - From ruin to remembrance - Chapter 8 -

It was not 'just' about providing electricity wirelessly. He used a very specific term that escapes me right now, something like 'electropropulsive force' or something like that. I read a lot about Wardenclyffe and Tesla's motivation to dedicate himself to it - I think it was the key to a radically innovative form of ionic propulsion that would have enabled a new era of aircraft that would not need to carry any fuel as all the energy they needed for flight would have been provided from those towers. This is also the key for the design of glide-vehicles to deploy orbital payloads. Right now, 94-97% of a rocket's mass is fuel. Imagine cutting that down to basically zero.

Well done. What can you find out about the electric car Tesla drove, using something in a wood box to power it.

So glad you’re covering this.

Hey Simon, love your videos. How about making a megaprojects video covering EUV lithography development or the construction of a leading edge semiconductor fab?

SR-71 Blackbird is my favorite Jet. I had a modle at my house.

Tesla coils are an amazing feat of engineering.

Seeing as how wireless energy is such a trivial novelty at present, I'd say the Tesla Tower was an ill-concieved notion by an otherwise smart man. But every genius has bad ideas. Isaac Newton tried to turn lead metal into gold. Fritz Haber tried to get gold from seawater.

Tesla coil like in the computer game command and conquer....awesome

Marconi sent his first signal from my home town of Glace Bay, NS. from table head beach, right in the cliffs of the Atlantic.

I would like to know from any physists out there. Was he actually on to something or was his venture doomed from the outset?

The Tesla Tower was wonderfully recreated in the wild west video game Red Dead Redemption 2. They obviously thought well of him and made it a small but well built part of the game. IT was very accurate to what you show here. It included a fun parody from there. It also included hard to find hidden features that only the most involved gamers would find.

What happen to Magic Spoon? I always enjoyed Simon doing that one, lol

3:45 is the end of the promo

I doubt it could work efficiently. As brilliant as he was Tesla cant beat thermodynamics

Hydroelectric power is nice!

I wonder what Tesla could’ve done if he was given enough time and money to complete his project.

Im here watching this video on the east coast of america. Miles away from tesla towers in shoreram area. The tower building still exists

I can't believe this hasn't been covered here before. You could take any page from Tesla's notes and write a Megaprojects on it. Whether his concepts were unhinged or not is a different question.

As a kid, my first exposure to Tesla were Tesla coils from Red Alert 2…

13:15 this is not correct.He was born to Serbian parents on territory of modern Croatia which was then part of AustroHungary. Yugoslavia came to exist only after world war 1 long after Tesla was born.

8:27 Good Morning!

Tesla certainly made the most impressive phalluses in history.

*Future video ideas ......kozyrev mirror* 👍

can I learn how to build a tesla coil on skillshare tho

7:00 the claim by Marconi CAN be explained by Ionospheric reflection or skipping, like the Jindalee Operational Radar Network Over-The-Horizon radar in Australia that could detect ships and aircraft at ranges of between 1000 and 3000 kilometers (1000km min range due to the transmitter stations being at a fair distance from the receiving stations [140km in the case of the Queensland stations] ... and the antennas each being 2.5 km long). Also, when I worked in an emergency dispatch office in Melbourne we once picked up a CB radio message on the emergency frequency requesting help for a stranded vehicle a few km WEST of the Tri-border point. Australia has four such points and the responder assumed they were talking about the Vic/NSW/SA point that was 560 km away, but with a few more questions determined they were actually in WESTERN AUSTRALIA ... 2000 km away ... with a CITIZEN BAND radio

A max scientist yesterday, a hero today.

Wirelessly, across the ocean, thousands of miles away....and on the toilet

We can broadcast radio waves beyond the curvature of the earth using ionospheric heaters however its so expensive it is reserved for military and academic use.

Many have tried to make Tesla's wireless power dream work for over 100 years. None have succeeded. The reason is simple. It violates basic laws of physics. I build Tesla coils and other high voltage equipment as a hobby. I also moderate a FB Tesla coil and high voltage group. We are constantly debunking Tesla mythology. The only use for Tesla coils are as entertainment devices. Just like fireworks, they look very cool but have no practical value.

I am proud to say that I donated to that campaign by The Oatmeal. :)

Way he did it is tower was 140 ft high but also went deep into the earth. And he spaced out copper rods kinda like transistor rods evenly spaced making a path of least resistance how he was able to light bulbs from 4 miles away

in 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published a mathematical theory that explained all aspects of electricity and magnetism. However, because of its mathematical complexity, Maxwell's theory was only understood by physicists with mathematical backgrounds. Tesla - though a genius - only had an intuitive understanding of electricity. But Marconi was in touch with professional physicists like Heinrich Hertz, who had a rigorous, mathematical understanding of electricity and magnetism. Marconi duplicated the published experiments of the physicists, and then experimentally found ways to make improvements. That is how Marconi succeeded when Tesla failed.

I was an avid follower of the oatmeal for a while. pretty sure I remember him talking about it.

I wonder why a fire destroyed the Tesla building in November this year ?

Wireless energy transfer through radio waves is a pipedream that pops up from time to time and always fails due to the same issues. You can't break phisics. If you send out a radio signal it will interfere with anything conductive and induce currents. Those currents aren't magic, this is not a perpetual motion thingy - so their energy has to come from somewhere... and that is from your radio signal. If you want to communicate with a smartphone, no one cares if the majority of power used is lost. The signal only has to come through *strong enough*. If you want to actually transmit power that becomes a different story. As soon as efficiency matters, wireless power transfer always fails. Even cordless smartphone charging has a shitty efficiency compared to a USB cable. It is convenient and the amounts of energy wasted aren't that noticable on your electricity bill. But even that only works for short distances. So yeah... I'm not convinced we'll see a practical application of this technology within the next 100 years (just like no-one did in the last 100 years) unless we're talking extremely low power e.g. sensors.

Greed will never allow this. Do you know how much money power companies make like PG&E or SMUD. Free wireless energy will never be allowed so long as greed overpowers quality of life these days

Thanks to the Inverse Square Law wireless "Power" transmission will never be practical.

His real contribution to society was the AC induction motor. Principle is still used to this day.

Watching this in the middle of the Atlantic ocean actually lol

"how come you want to return it?" "Simon said it, ..."

can you make a megaprojects video on delhi's new airport it has some seriously insane facts behind it

8:41 now that is a moustache

Mannn these sound effects had me freaking out. I listen in the car while I drive my work route and I had to pull over thinking my car was making weird buzzing sounds. 🤣🤣. I get the sound effects but man your audio engineer should listen to the finished product while driving to ensure it doesn't sound too similar to weird car noises. The story is true but the request is completely comedic🤣

In 2018, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

13:14 Tesla was born in Croatia, not Serbia. He is ethnically Serbian.

Among other things, Tesla was alarmed that after a heavy rainstorm, the wet timbers created a relatively low path of resistance to ground! The conductive timbers would short the whole thing out! And it didn’t occur to genius Tesla that a lightning ⚡️ strike to the terminal would totally ruin the transmitter! So, I’m really glad he couldn’t get the funding to finish the project! Can you imagine the humiliation he would have had to deal with?

Can you do the F-16?

He was treated as a gypsy (not anglo) he powered the mines in Telluride area with the Ames Falls Plant near Ophir, Colorado USA

So my question is: Why aren't we trying it again in 2023? We have the technology, we have the funds, what are we missing other than Tesla himself?

In another Universe- Tesla Energy Technology was put to the next level: Being utilized as a Defense Weapon- once buildable on land, but now buildable onto water- capable of burning down enemy infantry and armored units to a crisp. And as the years went by- from having it utilized as a weapon turret for Tanks and Amphibious Strike Crafts; it was further improved by having a portable tesla reactor and once, rubbered suit- now rubber insulated and shielded armored suit with Tesla Shock Gun Gauntlets that fire Tesla Energy bolts towards enemies they came across with, charge and amplify their Tesla Coil Defense Structures and eventually- have their Advanced Tesla Energy Based Weapons stop enemy armored units with Tesla EMP Disruptors, Tesla EM Stasis Rays, and the deadliest of them all- if not the Amplified Tesla Coil Strike: channel Shockwaves of Tesla Energy onto the waters and on to earth surface- burning everything and anything around them to a crisp… And that my friends- My Comrades is the deathly yet triumphantly (in)famous legacy: of the Soviet Tesla Coil/Tesla Energy Weapons Technology/Program…

We'd all turn into Frankensteins. It would send our evolutionary biology bananas. Oh hang on... umm.

Shout out to The Oatmeal!

“Ta’er” what. Ha lol

Thank you for this video. Tesla. Wow. Where to start. Please let the viewers know that Marconi's inventions were all based on Tesla work. The story goes when told by a colleague that Marconi was using one of his patents, without license from Tesla allowing Tesla legal reparations, Tesla reportedly replied, "Marconi is a good fellow let's see what he can do with those patents." Marconi's patent has been updated to include Tesla as well as Marconi's name. And don't get me started on Edison. Robber Baron extraordinaire never invented anything but got patents from hungry inventors for pennies on the dollar.

Teslar was a genuine good employer and if a man had invented something Tesla would not steal the invention, as did Edison, and love how Tesla kicked into touch Edison's DC and the bulbs.

Say what you will, but in the dawn of the age of electricity. The gadgets used were way cool looking.

0:46 I had to check the name of the channel, because I thought I was on a MandaloreGaming video. XD

I have been inseide the house in which Tesla was born. Is is in Smiljan, Croatia.

foreshadowing or creating the financial problems?

Woo!

I'll never return the plaque. It's mine!

Why don't we try building them now?

1982 Worlds Fair

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You absolutely need to make a brain blaze of Tesla being a time traveler conspiracy theory!!!! I'd watch it 50 times at least 😂😂😂😂

Your description leads to the conclusion that Tesla was a schyster?

I've seen interviews on Joe Rogan with a couple different scientists and electrical engineers who said that if we continued in this direction alot of the electronics we have wouldn't exist as the current would fry most transistors. Kind of like what happens in a CME like the one in Carrington even in the late 19th century. Im definitely not an electrical engineer so I myself can't really say if this is so or not.

I'm not getting notifications for this channel Simon.

I'm currently reading books on Tesla no pun Intended...he's my favourite person ever

Any Destiny players just now realizing why its called the Wardcliff Coil?

Westinghouse pulled the plug when he found out that the tower would give the world free power.

15 minutes of nothing. Really don't know why I come back to your channel occasionally.,

Simon, could you please place a few milliseconds of silence between each of your words? We might then be able to understand you better.

I'm already feeling that there's will be a lot of angry Croats cos of 13.18 second of video stating that Tesla was born 1856 in Serbia which was the part of Yugoslavia :D He was born in little town of Smiljan in modern day Croatia which at the time was part of Austro- Hungarian empire, but he was born in Serbian family, and always declared himself as Serbian. Yugoslavia was formed only after the WW 2 with both Serbia and Croatia in it. Even today his origin is the point of contesting and countless arguing between Croatia and Serbia as both sides wanna take credit for one of the greatest mind ever born, which is the classic theme for both of these countries that never were able to agree about anything and instead being proud of having such a mind originate and declare as their kin, and celebrate him jointly, they just grumble on each other appropriating him exclusively as their own despite NEVER contributing ANYTHING of significance for his work at the time he was alive. If he didn't go to US, and stayed either in Croatia or Serbia he probably wouldn't be nothing more than just odd crazy man and wasted talent, and the world would probably be much darker place, and not just literally.

It's a great shame Nikola Tesla brilliant mind horrible businessman. He's far from the only great mind that was so far ahead of his time. We can only imagine what he could do today.

Hello from Germany Friend!

Only France and Britain have modern, comparable navies. I think the US would have total control of the seas in about a month. And that would be the end of it. Except for poor Canada and Mexico, of course. Or should I say, North United States and South United States.

Tesla was skilled. But ultimately his later inventions, including this one, were failures. It’s interesting how today he has been reshaped into this genus whose secrets were lost.

Free power for all, that should be his legacy, whose out there today trying to give everyone free power....

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how many channels do you run?

I used to build Tesla coils: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zIlPRTHJj8c.html Tesla's big issue was his lack of scientific knowledge. People often call him a scientist - he was not, he was an engineer who held unscientific beliefs. Tesla coils do transmit power, they're just horribly inefficient.

Tesla, our Forgotten Genius.

So is brilliant as he was he did make mistakes I don't think that would have ever been viable technology, Elon Musk seems to really admire him em.

whats a steel cupolaR? I've never heard of Nikola TeslaR, is he related to Tesla?