Internet and GPS would have been available in 1902, had Tesla completed his Wardenclyffe project.
Well, not internet as we know it because there were no computers back then. But it would have given us a worldwide communication network without wires.
The Art of Individualization
That is what Tesla called his method of using different combinations of frequencies to trigger specific receivers. He mentions it in many articles,
- June, 1900, “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy”
- March 5th, 1904, “The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires”
- Jan. 7th, 1905, “The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for
Furthering Peace” - March 3rd, 1907, “Tesla's Tidal Wave to Make War impossible”
Just to mention a few, which again shows that the “Where do I put the meter”-story that I mentioned at the end of part 4 is unlikely to be true.
In 1898 Tesla demonstrated this principle by showing the worlds first remote controlled device, a boat in Madison Square Garden. Afterwards Tesla was asked to open the boat to show that there wasn’t anyone, or some trained animal inside. This boat is fully described in his patent 613,809.
Many lines
In his 25th Oct, 1907 article “Tesla on Wireless”, Tesla elaborates:
Just to illustrate what can be done, suppose that only four vibrations were isolated on each transmitter. let those on one side be respectively a, b, c, and d. Then the following individualized lines would be ab, ac, ad, bc, bd, cd, abc, abd, acd, bcd and abcd. The same article on the other side will give similar combinations, and both together twenty-two lines, which can be simultaneously operated.
He calls the different combinations “lines”, because they can be used in a similar manner. You can use them to control a light or a rudder, but you can also send voices over such a “line”.
Although Tesla had worked out this mechanism in sufficient detail and even proven it to work, it appears as if this was not yet fully incorporated in his TMT. I say this because in his Long Island Notes you can find numerous different designs to make the TMT have more than one frequency.
For example on June 13th, 1901 he is considering, among others, these 4 designs:
Also in the four diagrams that we got through Leland Anderson (can be found in my earlier posts Part 1 and Part 3), the second diagram uses two different secondary transformers possibly to create different frequencies, and the third diagram is much like diagram d here above.
It appears as if he had not yet decided how to build this into the TMT even though he had sold this project to JP Morgan as a communication tower.
Global Positioning System
Because the wave that the TMT produces in the Earth travels over the surface in a very peculiar way it becomes possible to determine in what direction the TMT is to be found and how far. More precisely suppose the TMT was at the North Pole, then by measuring the impulses you can determine your latitude (say 52 degrees) but you do not know whether you are on the northern or southern hemisphere. So with just one TMT you can draw 2 circles on the globe knowing that you must be somewhere on one of those circles. With two TMT’s at different locations two more circles can be drawn and you know that you are on one of the four intersections. With three TMT’s your location can (in most cases) be determined.
This is a system that Tesla explains in some articles but there is no record of him having done any experiment to this extent. One obvious reason is that there have never been 3 operational TMT’s.
This concludes my series on Tesla’s Magnifying Transmitter. I hope you have enjoyed reading it. If you would like a file with my collected Tesla articles or patents feel free to download them here.
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