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Wardenclyffe Tower

As soon as [the Wardenclyffe facility is] completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place …” – Nikola Tesla, “The Future of the Wireless Art”, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, 1908, pg. 67-71.

Via Wikipedia :

Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower (1901 – 1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless aerial tower intended to demonstrate the ability to send and receive information and power without interconnecting wires. The core facility was never fully operational and was not completed due to economic problems.

The tower was named after James S. Warden, a western lawyer and banker who had purchased land in Shoreham, Long Island, about sixty miles from Manhattan. Here he built a resort community known as Wardenclyffe-On-Sound. Warden believed that with the implementation of Tesla’s World System a “Radio City” would arise in the area, and offered Tesla 200 acres (81 hectares) of land close to a railway line on which to build his wireless telecommunications tower and laboratory facility.

After Wardenclyffe, Tesla built the Telefunken Wireless on the South Shore of Long Island. It has since been abandoned and subsequently dismantled. This site documents the state of the grounds today.