- We recently received a new booklet edited
by George Trinkaus entitled, Tesla - The True Wireless which is a reprint
of Nikola Tesla's June, 1919 article in the Electrical Experimenter. The
article is an extension of Tesla's previous work of that year entitled
"Famous Scientific Illusions" (reprinted in Borderlands, Vol.
44, No. 1, January-February 1988) in which Tesla outlines the differences
between his wireless technology and that of academic convention. We would
in most cases have simply listed this booklet with the rest of the reviews
but we felt it necessary to highlight the work for several reasons. "The
True Wireless" is one of the most important of Tesla's articles in
that he explains in great detail HIS system of wireless. Also, this document,
in his own words, smashes currently held beliefs about so-called "Tesla
Technology".
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- Written some years after his Wardencliff
Project, Tesla explains the inefficiency and limitations of the Hertzian
method of electromagnetic propagation (through the air) with great clarity
" and that his system of wireless which was vastly more effective,
utilised the ground itself for propagation. Tesla states, "Properly
constructed, my system [of wireless] is safe against static and other interference,
and the amount of energy which may be transmitted is billions of times
greater than with the Hertzian which has none of these virtues..."
He explains in particular, with several analogs in diagrammatic representation,
his single-wire-without-return system " the heart of Tesla's radio
and wireless power systems.
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- While this article is probably the most
compendious of all of Tesla's attempts to publicly describe his wireless
system, it also contains statements which radically challenge the orthodoxy
of radio " a system of radio that has gone unchallenged as such to
the present day. These particular statements made by Tesla virtually destroy
many currently held beliefs " that certain new technologies (usually
purported to be sinister in nature) were developed from Tesla technology
itself. Let us quote one of the more significant statements made by Tesla
in this article:
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- "In Fig. 13 a transmitter is shown
radiating space waves of considerable frequency. It is generally believed
that these waves pass along the earth's surface and thus affect the receivers.
I can hardly think of anything more improbable than this "gliding
wave" theory and the conception of the "guided wireless"
which are contrary to all laws of action and reaction. Why should these
disturbances cling to a conductor where they are counteracted by induced
currents, when they can propagate in all other directions unimpeded?
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- The fact is that the radiations of the
transmitter passing along the earth's surface are soon extinguished, the
height of the inactive zone indicated in the diagram, being some function
of the wavelength, the bulk of the waves traversing freely in the atmosphere.
Terrestrial phenomena which I have noted conclusively show that there is
no Heaviside layer, or, if it exists, it is of no effect."
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- He then goes on to demonstrate the electrical
inefficiency of the antenna through simple formulæ, and details several
experiments between Hertzian oscillators and his grounded transmitting
circuit. The key here with respect to the current belief that many new
technologies are Tesla derived, is that he says, "...there is no Heaviside
layer, or, if it exists, it is of no effect." We know the Heaviside
layer, later called the ionosphere, is the radio-reflective layer assumed
to exist within the upper atmosphere, and is presumed responsible for radio
propagation over great distances, i.e. "skip".
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- Enter HAARP. The assumed notion that
the project known as HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project)
is descended from Tesla's work, is something of an absurdity with reference
to Tesla's previous affirmation. Since the HAARP Project's exclusive purpose
relies on the existence and function of the ionosphere, and has nothing
to do with the grounded circuits of Tesla " it is clearly NOT Tesla
technology. This really should have been quite obvious to any researcher
or author if they had simply read any of Tesla's work concerning his wireless
" even without the bold statements of this 1919 article, but, alas,
due the popularity of Tesla, and the recently published books and videos
about HAARP, this bogus association between Tesla and HAARP has become
"matter of fact" to the misled and uninformed.
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- Why would these authors writing about
the HAARP Project make such gross mistakes - mistakes which destroy the
credibility of any other statements they have made concerning the technology?
One might suggest that because these people are journalists and movie makers,
and not radio technicians or electrical engineers, that we are supposed
to forgive their glaring errors. But a good journalist is expected to present
the truth as clearly and as disinterested as is possible. And, a good (ethical)
journalist would not overlook the facts, in favor of a sensational presentation.
Most of the associations today concerning Tesla and sinister military technologies
come from later statements made by Tesla " long after his direct involvement
in experiment with wireless. Speculations and predictions by Tesla such
as microwaves, TV, beam ray technologies (the Tesla Death Ray), cosmic-ray
motors, interplanetary communications, and wave-interference devices (the
"Tesla Howitzer" and the "Tesla Shield") have been
given authority over the actual physical experiments by Tesla. Most of
these conjectures were revealed by Tesla in his aging years at "birthday
press conferences" as he was shut out by the daily media sometime
after 1920. But, these are the statements that so capture the attentions
of readers and viewers, and are the ones which the so-called "underground
media" gleefully disseminate. Gloom and Doom is the status quo here,
and while the truth may be stranger than fiction, it is apparently quite
boring.
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- Many thanks to George Trinkaus for bringing
Tesla's article back in print. I might add that the introduction by Mr.
Trinkaus is quite good with references and diagrams of his own experiments
which prove the Teslian wireless system. I don't know if Mr. Trinkaus was
aware that the aforementioned statements by Tesla would with no uncertainty
disassemble many fabrications about Tesla technology, but then again he
did preface the title of the new booklet with the astute phrase, "Everything
You Know is Wrong".
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- Tesla - The True Wireless by George Trinkhaus
is available from Borderland Sciences for $6.00. Order HERE or call toll
free 1-888-825-2773.
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- http://www.borderlands.com/newstuff/research/teslahaa.htm:
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