March 12, 2004 Kwantlen College
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser
University
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Colorado Springs: 1899-1900
nTesla received a request from the U.S. Government to
develop a wireless
communications system.
nTesla moved to high
plateau near Colorado Springs.
nThere, he constructed a
large experimental radio station unlike anything the world had ever seen before.
nHis plan was to study
the characteristics of high voltage, high frequency alternating electrical currents.
nThe goal was to test "the laws of propagation of currents through the earth and the
atmosphere."
nHis first task was to
develop an extremely powerful transmitter and perfect a method to channel, “individualize,” the transmitted
energy.