New
York Times
- December
8, 1915
Nikola
Tesla, the
inventor,
has filed
patent
applications
on the
essential
parts of a
machine
the
possibilities
of which
test a
layman's
imagination
and
promise a
parallel
of Thor's
shooting
thunderbolts
from the
sky to
punish
those who
had
angered
the gods.
Suffice it
to say
that the
invention
will go
through
space with
a speed of
300 Miles
Per
Second, a
manless
ship
without
propelling
engine or
wings,
sent by
electricity
to any
desired
point on
the globe
on its
errand of
destruction,
if
destruction
its
manipulator
wishes to
effect.
[That
is 18,000
miles per
minute
which is
around our
globe in
under a
minute and
a half -
or aimed
directly
through
the globe
- as most
of
Testla's
patents
were
claimed to
do - in 27
seconds.
beth]
"'It
is not a
time,'
said Dr.
Tesla
yesterday,
'to go
into the
details of
this
thing. It
is founded
upon a
principle
that means
great
things in
peace; it
can be
used for
great
things in
war. But I
repeat,
this is no
time to
talk of
such
things.'
'It is
perfectly
practicable
to
transmit
electrical
energy
without
wires and
produce
destructive
effects at
a
distance.
I have
already
constructed
a wireless
transmitter
which
makes this
possible,
and have
described
it in my
technical
publications,
among
which /
refer to
my patent
number 1,1
19,732
recently
granted.
With a
transmitter
of this
kind we
are
enabled to
project
electrical
energy in
any amount
to any
distance [HAARP's
output is
a full
gigawatt,
b] and
apply it
for
innumerable
purposes,
both in
war and
peace.
Through
the
universal
adoption
of this
system,
ideal
conditions
for the
maintenance
of law and
order will
be
realized,
for then
the energy
necessary
to the
enforcement
of right
and
justice
will be
normally
productive,
yet
potential,
and in any
moment
available,
for attack
and
defense.
The power
transmitted
need not
be
necessarily
destructive,
for, if
distance
is made to
depend
upon it,
its
withdrawal
or supply
will bring
about the
same
results as
those now
accomplished
by force
of arms.
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New
York Time
-
September
22, 1940:
Nikola
Tesla, one
of the
truly
great
inventors
who
celebrated
his
eighty-fourth
birthday
on July
10, tells
the writer
that he
stands
ready to
divulge to
the United
States
Government
the secret
of his
"teleforce,"
with
which, he
said,
airplane
motors
would be
melted at
a distance
of 250
miles, so
that an
invisible
Chinese
Wall of
Defense
would be
built
around the
country.
This
teleforce,
he said,
is based
on an
entirely
new
principle
of physics
that 'no
one has
ever
dreamed
about,'
different
from the
principle
embodied
in his
inventions
relating
to the
transmission
of
electrical
power from
a
distance,
for which
he has
received a
number of
basic
patents.
This new
type of
force, Mr.
Tesla
said,
would
operate
through a
beam one
hundred-millionth
of a
square
centimeter
in
diameter,
and could
be
generated
from s
special
plant that
would cost
no more
than
$2,000,000
and would
take only
about
three
months to
construct.
The
beam, he
states,
involves
four new
inventions,
two of
which
already
have been
tested.
One of
these is a
method of
apparatus
for
producing
rays 'and
other
manifestations
or energy'
in free
air,
eliminating
the
necessity
for a high
vacuum; a
second is
a method
and
process
for
producing
'very
great
electrical
force';
the third
is a
method for
amplifying
this
force, and
the fourth
is a new
method for
producing
'a
tremendous
electrical
repelling
force.'
This would
be the
projector,
or gun, of
the
system.
The
voltage
for
propelling
the beam
to its
objective,
according
to the
inventor,
will
attain a
potential
of
50,000,000
volts.
With
this
enormous
voltage,
he said,
microscopic
electrical
particles
of matter
will be
catapulted
on their
mission of
defensive
destruction.
He has
been
working on
this
invention,
he added,
for many
years and
has
recently
made a
number of
improvements
in
it."
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