The quest for Nikola Tesla’s wireless power technology

Nikola Tesla’s biggest dream was a worldwide network of wireless power transmission. He built a lab and a massive prototype transmission tower...that never worked. But, a century later, engineers are chasing the same dreams of wireless power and making some tantalizing headway. So was Tesla onto something?

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[VergeScience]

What do you think Tesla’s biggest contribution was?

[barriewright]

A man before his time, a visonary a genius.

[fkmui]

_I dont care that they stole my idea_
_I care that they dont have any of their own_

- *TESLA* -

[jakep]

Tesla's biggest problem was he let the word"free" be uttered.

[borisdorofeev]

Of course Nikola Tesla was on to something. He was always on to something.

[AllenHanPR]

I'm no genius, I was merely born a century too early.

-Tesla

[lancelovecraft]

The fact that I am watching this video on my mobile phone instantaneously from across the world is amazing and no small feat

[golatificon]

Interviewer. How does it feel to be the smartest man alive?'
Einstein: 'I don't know, you'll have to ask Nikola Tesla.

[samarthsuthar]

Strange How Last breath of Edison is preserved and Tesla's Laboratory is a ruin.

[mnli]

Tesla was ahead of his Time. When I was in my undergrad doing engineering, we use to have his name/ pic mentioned in almost all of the books. My 3rd year project was based on wireless tech. He is an inspiring figure. Feel sorry for the brilliant mind who at his time were not given the due respect and financial support.

[lorensims]

A true visionary.
When he was a child he saw a picture of Niagara Falls and wondered if such power could be harnessed somehow.
Eventually he helped George Westinghouse build the very first hydroelectric generator plant at Niagara Falls where it is still operating.

[abayyoo]

Im so sorry for nikola tesla. The elites in that time who founded him was cruel

[randomgaming]

Just stop for a moment and imagine the things Tesla would do with today's advancements in technology and material science...

[patrickschroeder]

He lit up a bank of 200 bulbs from 10 km away I think he understood his invention more than anyone today could

[tanmaym]

Then imagine the things we don't know yet and people in future will look back on... And say the same.

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[EduDworzecki]

The final chapter of his life is just gut-wrenching... A brilliant human being who created so much of the world we live in today who was boycotted because he was so damn selfless that greed had to trump him out of existence...

[extraterrestrial]

"He didn't know that he didn't know"
It's so important to quantify what you don't know

[RchamTV]

"Thomas Edison wants to know your location"

[muhammadhasansiddiqui]

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla
He wasn't just building towers to spread electricity throughout the world, he was trying to harness the electricity and the energy that earth creates around it, which means infinite energy for the whole world

[__dane__]

I just realized why that one weapon in Destiny 2 is named “Wardcliff Coil”