The wireless transfer of electrical energy was the dream of physicist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. After tireless experimentation he finally obtained his first patent for the wireless transmission of energy in 1900. It is recognised today as the first patented radio technology, although the inventor had intended to use it for the transmission of energy for lighting. He was convinced of the possibility of running electrical lights and machines at considerable distances, without a physical link to a power source. He envisioned a world with just a handful of radio transmitters from which any required power could be harnessed via antennae. The absorbed “space energy” could be converted into electrical energy. In 1901 construction of his 57 metre high Wardenclyffe Tower began. Disguised as a radio mast, its real function was to wirelessly transmit energy through the ionosphere. Tesla was convinced that he had discovered an operational “world energy system”, which could provide everyone with free energy. When the project financiers learnt of this, construction was halted.

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