Realization of Tesla's Scientific Dreams

Nikola Tesla's first great contribution to electrical science was his discovery and patenting in 1888 of the rotating magnetic field, which led to the poly-phase induction motor. and the poly-phase system for the generation and distribution of electric current, now in almost universal use.

In the early '90s he turned his attention to the production of current of high voltage and high frequency — inventing the Tesla coil, high frequency generators, tuned circuits — in fact, almost all the apparatus which was later. used for radio transmission. In 1897 he was granted a patent for the first radio controlled ship.

Two years later, at Colorado Springs, Tesia produced sparks over 100 feet long, succeeded in lighting lamps at a distance and in producing stationary waves on the earth. 

From the beginning of the present century — interrupted by circumstances beyond his control — he has worked on a plan for transmitting electric power without wires, by means of what he calls a “magnifying transmitter.” In 1913 he secured a patent on a radical steam or gas turbine, having perfectly smooth rotor blades and developing greater power a unit weight than any other prime mover.

Today he is developing means for obtaining a new source of universal power, the exact nature of which has not been divulged.