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Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale
Ziest points us to NY Times piece on the battle over the site of Nicola Tesla's last failed experiment. Tesla's laboratory, called Wardenclyffe, located on Long Island, has been put up for sale by its current owner, Agfa Corp. Local residents and Tesla followers were alarmed by a real estate agent's promise that the land, listed at $1.6 million, could "be delivered fully cleared and level." Preservationists want to create a Tesla museum and education center at Wardenclyffe, anchored by the laboratory designed by Tesla's friend, Stanford White, a celebrated architect. "In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for one and all. It was the inventor's biggest project, and his most audacious. The first tower rose on rural Long Island and, by 1903, stood more than 18 stories tall. ... But the system failed for want of money, and at least partly for scientific viability. Tesla never finished his prototype tower and was forced to abandon its adjoining laboratory."
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Then someone will assume it's a Labrador Retriever, and PETA will get involved.
You really want a site that often covers technical issues to avoid polysyllabic words? Okay, I'll try:
Your post makes me sad.
and use it to figure out how to manufacture a pork samich without a bone in it. i will be rich.
Seriously... Blowing a couple of million bucks on the site, along with perhaps a reconstructed museum and tower, is honestly a good way to waste Federal money. There's a big war bill coming out of the House, and get the New York delegation to stuff some money in there for a national museum, and while we're at it, have the President declare it as a national heritage site.
There will be some dopes at the National Review that will bitch about it, but even hard righties like me love national parks and the story of American industrialization and research. It's a lot better than Woodstock. I'd plug it on my right wing site, for sure.
Come on libs, spend some money and save this place!
This is my sig.
The building's dark interior was littered with beer cans and broken bottles. Flashlights revealed no trace of the original equipment, except for a surprise on the second floor. There in the darkness loomed four enormous tanks, each the size of a small car. Their sides were made of thick metal and their seams heavily riveted, like those of an old destroyer or battleship. The Agfa consultant leading the tour called them giant batteries.
"Look up there," said the consultant, Ralph Passantino, signaling with his flashlight. "There's a hatch up there. It was used to get into the tanks to service them."
Tesla authorities appear to know little of the big tanks, making them potential clues to the inventor's original plans.
Boy are they going to be surprised when they open them and find hundreds of hats, dead cats and human corpses with huge bone claws on their hands crammed in there.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Well, shit! Dr. Evil doesn't even get a say in this kind of real estate market!
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Ah, I love the smell of hipster nihilism in the morning. It smells like... defeat!
It's like microwaving everyone in NY just so you can send a decent power output to Texas from Long Island?
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
The plans indicated many transmitters globally. This would never happen, as it takes the control away from too many huge money making industries. No government would allow it either.
He tried to get it funded by JP Morgan. One day, he got a telegraph:
"No interest in wireless power. Nowhere to put the meter."
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine -- Robert C. Gallagher
Tesla must have been on some shit. Like mushrooms or some other psychotic food additives
Indeed he was. You've heard of "ecstasy"? Well, Tesla was on "imagination".
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The reason it can't be done is found in Maxwell's equations.
That's not the reason it can't be done.
The reason it can't be done is because even if it were possible, it would be impossible to meter.