March 12, 2004    Kwantlen College
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University
31
Vision of wireless communications
n"As soon as [the Wardenclyffe plant is] completed, it will be possible for
na business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them
ninstantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be
nable to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on
nthe globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment.
nAn inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable
nits bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech
nof a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or
nthe sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place,
nhowever distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing,
nor print can be transferred from one to another place ..."
n
nNikola Tesla, “The Future of the Wireless Art,” Wireless Telegraphy &
nTelephony, 1908, pp. 67-71.