![]() What had been a landmark laboratory full of fabulous Tesla inventions has now become a vacant testament to his most ambitious idea. The project ran into financial difficulties before it was completed, and in 1917 the unfinished tower was finally demolished for scrap to satisfy Tesla’s debts. Tesla’s grand vision for Wardenclyffe exceeded his resources and his patrons’ patience. Wardenclyffe was to be the prototype station for what he imagined as a grid of towers spanning the globe, realizing his dream of worldwide wireless power. Secret experiments Tesla conducted at his Colorado Springs laboratory in 1899 had convinced him that it would be possible to transmit electrical power through the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Tesla saw that the world around us is brimming with “free” energy, and was adamant about finding a way to harness it for the betterment of humanity. Tesla’s dream was to not only revolutionize telecommunications by creating a system for relaying information wirelessly, but also to create a viable method for transferring power currents around the globe by capturing the Earth's natural energy. He had already proved that high-frequency signals could be transmitted without wired connections using his own “Tesla coil” transformers, and this led to what would become a lifelong obsession: the wireless transmission of energy. But Tesla had an even more ambitious purpose in mind for the massive Wardenclyffe tower.
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