TESLA'S WORLD WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

By the plan I had conceived, if it was realizable, it was just as easy to telegraph or telephone across the entire globe as it is across this room.
– Nikola Tesla, 1916
 

Tesla is well known for his pioneering development of the 3-phase AC electrical power system and the reworking of his predecessor’s primitive radio-frequency power supplies, ultimately providing mankind with its first practical radio telecommunications system.  This presentation describes the development of some original electrical apparatus; from an early electric arc lighting system to his advanced global wireless telecommunications system.  A small-scale wireless transmission-reception system constructed after Tesla's original design is demonstrated.  Three different theories are proposed to explain its operation.

At this time of accelerating hazardous circumstances, such as global climate change and the depletion of petroleum reserves, a set of clearly defined comprehensive solutions is needed to overcome the present impasse of world-opposed thinkers and ideological dogmas.  Planners, architects, and engineers must assume responsibility for our future well-being.  We must go to work and, above all, co-operate.  Do not hold back nor seek personal gain at the expense of others.  Always heed the infinitely accommodative synergetic laws of the “intellectual integrity governing universe.” [Buckminster Fuller]

Tesla stood on the shoulders of those who preceded him, improving upon what had been done before and developing completely new and original ideas.  We too must continually add to the existing accumulation of perpetual knowledge.  This is the way to increase human energy.

And be mindful of Tesla's words about how to reduce the forces retarding societal advancement.

"The force which retards the onward movement of man is partly frictional and partly negative. . . . ignorance, stupidity, and imbecility as some of the purely frictional forces, or resistances . . . visionariness, insanity, self-destructive tendency, religious fanaticism, and the like, are all forces of a negative character. . . . One can take preventive measures, can enlighten, convince, and, possibly direct him, turn his vice into virtue. . . . A negative force always implies some quality, not infrequently a high one, though badly directed, which it is possible to turn to good advantage. . . . Evidently, then, the first and general answer to the above question is: turn all negative force in the right direction and reduce all frictional force." [THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING HUMAN ENERGY, June, 1900]

Tesla also spoke of a,

"fundamental law of motion, which commands acceleration and increase of momentum or accumulation of energy under the action of a continuously acting force and tendency, and is the more true as every advance weakens the elements tending to produce friction and retardation." [ON ELECTRICITY, January 27, 1897]

This phenomenon of an increase in electrical activity in a helical resonator over time by the periodic application of transient primary impulses, which is employed by Tesla-coil hobbyists to produce big sparks, is key to the performance of the Tesla wireless system as well.