March 12, 2004 Kwantlen College
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser
University
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Wireless demonstrations: 1893
nAt the Spring meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis, Tesla gave his first public demonstration of the wireless transmission of electrical energy.
nTransmitter:
ntuned circuit with a bank of Leyden jar capacitors and a coil
nspark gap
n5 kVA power-distribution transformer
nantenna extending from the coil to the ceiling.