From Feed Line No. 5

A BLAST FROM THE PAST

As you probably know, in the 1890's unsung electrical genius Nikola Tesla developed a unique method of wireless transmission. Unlike the less experienced Marconi, Dr. Tesla knew he that could send more than weak dots and dashes of Morse code without the use of wire. With his special system, he believed it was possible to transmit strong signals of electrical energy, wirelessly, that would reach around the entire globe. It was in 1899, from a 60 x 70 foot tar paper structure built near Colorado Springs that Tesla first demonstrated his "Air/Ground" wireless system on a limited scale. A year later, financed by J.P. Morgan, he began building an even more powerful version of his radio transmitter on Long Island, New York. This was to be a system specifically intended for commercial wireless transatlantic communications.

In December of 1901 Mr. Marconi laid claim to having received signals sent from across the Atlantic and the public's attention was drawn away from the promise of Tesla's work. Subsiquent cost overruns compounded by an economic down-turn slowed the construction of Tesla's Long Island laboratory and by 1904 he was entering into financial trouble. In order to regain greater notice of his project Tesla announced to the press in 1906, 1907 and 1908 that, if need be, his wireless transmission system could be used for defensive purposes by electrically projecting explosive "wave-energy".

Meanwhile nearly halfway around the world, on June 30, 1908, an explosion estimated as having a force equivalent of 10-15 megatons of TNT flattened 500,000 remote acres near the Stony Tunguska River in central Siberia. Several explanations have been given for the Tunguska event. The officially accepted version is that a 100,000 ton fragment of Encke's Comet, composed of dust and ice, exploded over the earth's surface creating a fireball and shock wave but no crater.

Writing some years later, Nikola Tesla acknowledged that his powerful transmitter could cause destructive effects at a distance and, as a last resort, it might be used as a weapon. Did the great 19th century inventor of alternating current power wirelessly send the force of a nuclear device thousands of miles? In an effort to answer this question these and other related facts, plus many other unknown aspects of the inventor's later work, are investigated in detail in Tesla's Fuelless Generator and Wireless Method.