A wizard's vision of a wireless world.(Nikola Tesla)(Brief article)(Biography)

Odyssey | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

In 1900, wires were cutting-edge technology. The first electrical engineers were busy weaving a worldwide web of wires. Wires conducted power to Edison's incandescent light bulbs. Wires relayed information to Bell's telephones and Morse's telegraphs. The globe was agog with wires. So it's no small wonder that in that same year, one wizardly inventor tried to create a virtually wireless world.

The inventor's name was Nikola Tesla. In some ways, Tesla would have been more at home in the year 2000 than in his own 1900. Our twenty-first century satellite dishes, cell ...

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