Tesla 123 - A drawing of a tower with a red top
Summary
A model of Wardenclyffe Tower, the high voltage wireless station built by Nikola Tesla in 1901-1902. Designed as a transatlantic radiotelegraphy and wireless power transmitter, it was never completed, and was torn down 1916. A 187 ft wooden tower containing a Tesla coil oscillator, topped by a 68 ft diameter hemispherical metal capacitive electrode, in this model the shape of the top load has been changed to a toroidal shape.
Date
1916
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Copyright info
public domain