Nikola Tesla Books
FOREWORD Nikola Tesla does not belong to that group of great theoreticians who develop new frontiers of science, or to the great practitioners who invented many useful things for our lives. He belongs to pioneers who in their original way, open and trace new fields of technology. At the beginning of twentieth century, Tesla believed that he was far ahead of all others in the then developing field of wireless transmission, not only for messages but also energy in a more significant amount for other uses. Inspite of developing a system for intelligence transmission, he did not neglect the transmission of energy on an industrial scale. He had an offer from The Canadian Niagara Power Company to develop such a system and he proposed 'to distribute ten thousand horsepower under a tension of one hundred million volts', which he claimed to be able to produce and handle with safety'. The transmitted power was intended to be used for illumination of isolated homes, with vacuum tubes for driving clocks! Tesla spent the next forty years of his life trying to persuade the world that it would be possible to use the energy of a waterfall to supply light, One of the first prototypes of Tesla's bladeless turbines c. 1910 8
