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RATIONALISATIONS Footnotes: Given Tesla's general pacifist nature it is hard to understand —_!. "Tells Death Power of ‘Diabolical Rays", The New York Times, 21 May why he would carry out a test harmful to both animals and the !924,p.1. . . A 2. Ibid. people who herded the animals, even when he was in the grip of 3" “Suggests Russia Has A 'Ray", The New York Times, 28 May 1924, p. 25. financial desperation. The answer is that he probably intended NO 4, "Tesla Discovered ‘Death Ray’ In Experiments Made Here”, Colorado harm, but was aiming for a publicity coup and, literally, missed his Springs Gazette, 30 May 1924, p. 1. target. 5. Tesla, Nikola, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, with Special At the end of 1908, the whole world was following the daring Retitenoe tthe Elsen of the Sun's Energy", The Century Illustrated attempt of Peary to reach the North Pole which he claimed in the agazine, June 17. , . oy spring of 1909. If Tesla wanted the attention of the international feces Oliver, "Nikola Tesla's Later Energy Generation Designs’, press, few things would have been more impressive than the Peary 7. American Examiner, 1911 (issue number unknown). expedition sending out word of a cataclysmic explosion on the ice —_8. Tesla, Nikola, "How to Signal Mars", The New York Times, 23 May 1909, p. near or at the North Pole.” Tesla, then, if he could not be hailed as —_—‘10. Tesla claims to have sent “a current around the globe" in the order of the master creator that he was, could be seen as the master of a "15,000,000" horsepower or 11 billion watts. ; ; mysterious new force of 9. Secor, H. Winfield, "The Tesla High destruction N. TESLA. Frequency Oscillator", The Electrical - APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRICAL ENERGY. Experimenter, March 1916, p. 615. The test, it seems, was not a APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1902. RENEWED MAY 4, 1907. 10. Wait, James R., “Propagation of complete success. It must | 1,119,732. . Patented Dec. 1, 1914. | ELF Electromagnetic Waves and Pr ‘Project Sanguine/Seafarer™", Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE, vol. OE-2, no. 2, April 1977, pp. 161-172. 1]. Marincic, Aleksandar, Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes 1899- 1900, Nikola Tesla Museum, published by Nolit, Beograd, Yugoslavia, p. 19. 12. Corum, James F. and Kenneth L. Corum, “Disclosures Concerning the Operation of an ELF Oscillator", Tesla ‘84—Prroceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium (Dr Elizabeth Rauscher and Mr Toby Grotz, editors), International Tesla Society, Inc., Colorado Springs, USA, 1985, pp. 41- 49. 13. Tesla, Nikola, "Famous Scientific Illusions”, The Electrical Experimenter, February 1919, p. 732. 14. Ibid. 15. Nichelson, Oliver, "Tesla’s Wireless Transmission Method", 1992. 16. Tesla, Nikola, “Tesla's Wireless Torpedo”, The New York Times, 20 March 1907, p. 8. 17. Tesla, Nikola, "Mr Tesla's Vision", The New York Times, 21 April 1908, p. have been difficult controlling the vast amount of power in the transmitter to the exact spot Tesla intended. The North Pole lies close to a great-circle line connecting Shoreham, Long Island and the Tunguska region. That path passes close by Alert on Ellesmere Island where Peary spent the winter. The unin- habited region between Alert and the North Pole might have been the intended target for a test-firing of the wireless transmission system. However, “the accepted terrestrial mea- surements" of that day were not precise enough for the task. The destructive electrical wave overshot its target. Whoever was privy to Tesla's energy weapon demon- stration must have been dis- mayed either because it missed the intended target and would be a threat to inhabited regions BANe Dakets fate * 5. 18. Seifer, Marc J., "Nikola Tesla: The Lost Wizard", Tesla '84—Proceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium, op. 1 ue cit., pp. 31-40. of the planet, or because it A. ans an Havent fenkee 19. Cheney, Margaret, Tesla, Man out worked too well in devastating Pegaso thet fey pes thee of Time, Dell Publishing Co., New such a large area at the mere ~— York, USA, 1983, p. 187. throwing of a switch thousands of miles away. Whatever was the 20. Tesla, Nikola, "Tesla's New Device Like Bolts of Thor", The New York . : < Times, 8 December 1915, p. 8. case, Tesla never received the notoriety he sought for his power 21. Baxter, John and Thomas Atkins, The Fire Came By, Wamer Books, New transmitter. The evidence is only circumstantial. Perhaps Tesla never did xo crea p27. achieve wireless power transmission through the Earth. Maybe he —_23. Spenser Russell, quoted in Baxter and Atkins, The Fire Came By, p. 28, made a mistake in interpreting the results of his radio tests in from the Royal Meteorological Society Quarterly, 1930. Colorado Springs and really saw a low-frequency phenomenon, 24. Baxter and Atkins (see Footnote 21). ‘lati 5 _ 25. The carliest mention of lighting the ocean appears to have been in 1911 ina Schumann oscillations, and not an effect engineers believe a scien New York American article by Marcel Roland, dated 3rd September. See tific impossibil ity. Perhaps the mental stress he suffered caused Ratzlaff, John and Leland Anderson, Dr Nikola Tesla Bibliography, Ragusan him to retreat into a fantasy world from which he would send out press, 1979, p. 93. preposterous claims to reporters who gathered for his yearly pro- 26. "Tesla Light to Rob Oceans of Every Danger", American, New York, 7 nouncements on his birthday. Maybe the atomic bomb-size explo- _ December 1914. sion in Siberia near the turn of the century was the result of a 27. Tesla suggested a similar test of his power transmission system aimed at the meteorite nobody saw fall Moon where everyone could see "the splash and volatization of matter". See Or, perhaps, Nikola Tesla did shake the world in a way that has Fe0tote 19 p. 255. T, perhaps, Nikola lesla shake the world in a way ‘aS_-28. Bayshore, Long Island, is at 40 N 43, 73 W 13; Alert, Canada (Elsmere been kept secret for over 80 years. co sland) is at 82 N 31, 62 W 05; and Tunguska is at 60 N 55, 101 E57. StvenGlg t fevkew, fey pes oe ¥ NEXUS ¢ 43 oye 4 vr eo Plake ts Feat AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995