Tesla’s Wireless World
In 1900, the first electrical engineers were busy weaving a worldwide web of wires. Wires conducted power to Thomas A. Edison’s incandescent light bulbs. Wires relayed information to Alexander Graham Bell’s telephones and Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraphs. Wires represented cutting-edge technology. But in that same year, one inventor tried to create a virtually wireless world.
The inventor’s name was Nikola Tesla. In some ways, Tesla would have been more at home in the year 2000 than in his own 1900. Our 21st-century satellite dishes, cell phones, and Wi-Fi connections
