The Tesla Experimental Station is a Colorado Springs laboratory built in 1899 by its inventor Nikola Tesla and uses that year for his studies on the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity in wireless power transmission.
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Location
The Experimental Station is located on a vacant lot at the highest local point (Knob Hill) between the Colorado School of 1876 for Deaf and Blind and Union Printers Home, where Tesla conducts research described in Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900. Some papers of the time listed Tesla lab as about 200 feet East of Deaf and Blind School and 200 feet North Pikes Peak Ave. It puts it on a hill at E. Kiowa St. and N. Foote Ave (facing West); as documented by the Pikes Peak Library District.
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Description
In Colorado Springs, in May 1899, Tesla, some of his assistants, and a local contractor started the construction of Tesla's lab shortly after arriving in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a highland location where it would have more space than in downtown New York. City laboratory for high frequency high-voltage experiments. Tesla moved there to study the conductive properties of low-pressure air, part of his research into wireless power transmission. It has the largest Tesla coil ever constructed, with a diameter of 49.25 feet (15 m), which is a preliminary version of the magnifying transmitter planned for installation at the Wardenclyffe Tower. Upon his arrival, he told reporters that he planned to conduct a wireless telegraphy experiment, sending signals from Pikes Peak to Paris.
He produced an artificial lightning, with a dump consisting of millions of volts and a length of up to 135 feet (41 m). Thunder from the released energy sounded 15 miles (24 km) in Cripple Creek, Colorado. People walking along the road observed splashes that jumped between their feet and the ground. Sparks sprang from the tap water when touched. Light bulbs within 100 feet (30 m) of the lab glow even when switched off. The horses in thick cages ran away from their stalls after receiving shocks through their metal shoes. Butterflies swirled in electricity, spinning in a circle of blue circles of fire. Elmo around their wings.
While experimenting, Tesla accidentally blamed the generator, causing a power outage. In August 1917, Tesla explained what happened at The Electrical Experimenter: "As an example of what has been done with several hundred kilowatts of high-frequency energy released, it is found that the dynamo in a 6-mile powerhouse (10 km) goes repeatedly on fire, due to the strong high-frequency currents installed in it, and which causes large sparks to leap over the scroll and destroy insulation! "
During his time in the laboratory, Tesla observes the unusual signal from the receiver that he concludes possible communication from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia North American on December 8, 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about the possibility of discovery in the new century to the Red Cross Society in which he referred to the message "from another world" which reads "1.. 2... 3... ". Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the conclusion Tesla hears signals from Mars. He broadened the signal he heard in the weekly article of February 9, 1901, Collier "Talking With Planets" in which he said it was not clear to him that he had heard "intelligently controlled signals" and that signals could come from Mars, Venus. , or another planet. It has been hypothesized that he might have intercepted Marconi's experiment in Europe in July 1899 - Marconi may have sent the letter S (dot/dot/dot) in a naval demonstration, the same three impulses that Tesla indicated in Colorado hearing - or signals from other experiments in wireless transmission.
On January 7, 1900 Tesla made his last entry in the journal while in Colorado Springs. In 1900 Tesla was granted a patent for "electrical energy transmission systems" and "power transmitters." When Guglielmo Marconi made his first famous transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, Tesla insinuated that it was done with 17 Tesla patents, although there was little to support this claim.
In 1904, Tesla was sued for indebtedness in Colorado Springs. The laboratory was demolished in 1904, and its contents were sold two years later at an auction in the courthouse to satisfy its debts.
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