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Westinghouse had believed in him and had invested in the new AC patents
when others had not had such courage. Therefore, so that Westinghouse
would survive financially and the technology would be developed, Tesla
took a cash settlement and walked away from the millions of future dollars
assigned to him by the per-horsepower deal. He tore up the lucrative
contract in order to help a friend.
Meanwhile, the power monopolists were poised to grab as much
money as possible. When Tesla's inventions made it possible to send electrical
power from huge waterfalls across the states, tycoons prepared to
make fortunes in utility companies. These captains of industry wanted the
60-cycle-per- second AC power system to continue to grow and cover the
earth with power poles, transformers and wires. Transmission towers
would march up and down mountainsides and across deserts. Power companies
would dam rivers for hydro power and make the people pay for
every watt sent over the companies' copper wires. The power magnates
did not want the inventor to uproot this growing forest of money trees.
J. Pierpont Morgan pulled the strings that formed the huge company
General Electric, for example, and had already bought up copper mines
knowing that transmission wires would eventually crisscross every industrialized
continent.
But Tesla was a discoverer, not a business shark. His new plan was
wireless transmission of energy—free energy for anyone who sticks a
tuned receiver into the ground while Tesla's tuned transmitter was resonating
frequencies!
The financiers on Wall Street didn't catch the drift of Tesla's "wireless"
talk right away. The plan was so futuristic that it was literally over everyone's
head. But he was giving enough clues for anyone who had been
ready to catch his vision. In the same year that the lighting of the World's
Fair dazzled society, he talked about "earth resonance" at a lecture to the
prestigious Franklin Institute. Earth resonance was part of his vision for
wireless power. The secret is sending out the correct frequency—speed of
vibration—with electrical pulses. Just as a piano string will vibrate when
another instrument at a distance hits the same note as its tuned frequency,
wireless receivers would resonate with the transmitter frequencies. The
power would be tuned in just like you tune in a radio station. Some Tesla
researchers also believe that he could have resonated the cavity between
the ionosphere and the ground. Just like the cavity within a violin, this
spherical Schumann cavity has its own resonant frequency.
Disregarding the danger of making his own previous inventions obsolete,
in the next few years he thought up the processes necessary for futuristic
wireless transmission. While the business community assumed he
was talking about wireless communications signals only, he had a far