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Nikola Tesla Dreams of Electricity

WSHU | By Davis Dunavin
Published August 23, 2019 at 9:52 AM EDT
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Nikola Tesla’s wireless transmission tower in Shoreham, NY";
Popular Electricity Magazine / Public Domain
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Jackson Souter demonstrates a Tesla coil at Nikola Tesla’s birthday celebration. ";
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: In the foreground: a statue of Nikola Tesla. In the background: Engineer Greg Leyh’s 40-foot replica Tesla coil stands in the spot the scientist built his wireless transmission tower.";
Davis Dunavin / WSHU Public Radio

Nikola Tesla spent years obsessed with a dream to bring wireless communication to the world. He built a laboratory and a huge tower to harness the earth’s energy — but he eventually lost it all — in the village of Shoreham, on Long Island.

 

Narration of Nikola Tesla by Colin Palmer, of Riverhead, Long Island.
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Davis Dunavin
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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