ATDDTA(11) "Aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ..."** [322:25]

[Keith]

[322:25] "A trusswork tower"

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"Cloudborne Electric Wavelets To Encircle the Globe:
  This Is Nicola Tesla's Latest Dream, and the Long Island Hamlet of  
Wardenclyffe Marvels Thereat"
   --The New York Times (27 March, 1904)

"Tesla's "Magnifying Transmitter", at Wardenclyffe, Shoreham, LI (New  
York). The transmitting station is an octagonal tower, pyramidal in  
shape, and some 187 feet in height. It consists of huge wooden  
stilts, heavily braced, and reinforced, and surmounted by a cupola of  
interlaced steel wires, bent so as to form an arc. In the cupola  
there is a wooden platform occupying its entire width. Mr. Tesla  
began work on his transmitting station about eighteen months ago.

When he first came there, and it was understood that J. Pierpont  
Morgan had become interested in his odd enterprise and furnished him  
with financial assistance, a thrill of vague expectancy ran through  
the little settlement, The Wardenclyffe Land Company, which owns  
practically all the available ground in the vicinity, gave the  
inventor a free grant of some 175 acres of fine land, and then  
settled down to wait for the day when Wardenclyffe would become the  
centre of the universe.

Some of the farmers who come to Wardenclyffe to send their products  
to this city look at Mr. Tesla's tower, which is situated directly  
opposite the railroad station, and shake their heads sadly. They are  
inclined to take a skeptical view regarding the feasibility of the  
wireless "world telegraphy" idea, but yet Tesla's transmitting tower  
as it stands in lonely grandeur and boldly silhouetted against the  
sky on a wide clearing on the concession is a source or great  
satisfaction and of some mystification to them all."
   http://www.rexresearch.com/teslamt/tmagxmtr.htm#nytimes

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[EXCERPT]

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
by Nikola Tesla
Chapter 6:  The Magnifying Transmitter

No subject to which I have ever devoted myself has called for such  
concentration of mind, and strained to so dangerous a degree the  
finest fibbers of my brain, as the systems of which the Magnifying  
Transmitter is the foundation. I put all the intensity and vigor of  
youth in the development of the rotating field discoveries, but those  
early labours were of a different character. Although strenuous in  
the extreme, they did not involve that keen and exhausting  
discernment which had to be exercised in attacking the many problems  
of the wireless.

Despite my rare physical endurance at that period, the abused nerves  
finally rebelled and I suffered a complete collapse, just as the  
consummation of the long and difficult task was almost in sight.  
Without doubt I would have paid a greater penalty later, and very  
likely my career would have been prematurely terminated, had not  
providence equipped me with a safety device, which seemed to improve  
with advancing years and unfailingly comes to play when my forces are  
at an end. So long as it operates I am safe from danger, due to  
overwork, which threatens other inventors, and incidentally, I need  
no vacations which are indispensable to most people. When I am all  
but used up, I simply do as the darkies who "naturally fall asleep  
while white folks worry."

[...]

The terrible conflict is still uppermost in the minds and perhaps the  
greatest importance will be attached to the Magnifying Transmitter as  
a machine for attack and defense, more particularly in connection  
with Telautomatics. This invention is a logical outcome of  
observations begun in my boyhood and continued throughout my life.  
When the first results were published, the Electrical Review stated  
editorially that it would become one of the "most potent factors in  
the advance of civilization of mankind." The time is not distant when  
this prediction will be fulfilled. In 1898 and 1900, it was offered  
by me to the Government and might have been adopted, were I one of  
those who would go to Alexander's shepherd when they want a favor  
from Alexander! At that time I really thought that it would abolish  
war, because of its unlimited destructiveness and exclusion of the  
personal element of combat. But while I have not lost faith in its  
potentialities, my views have changed since. War can not be avoided  
until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in  
the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.  
Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the  
conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and  
transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day,  
insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is  
closer contact and better understanding between individuals and  
communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic  
devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is  
always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.  
No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a  
calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the  
mercy of the strong.

I have expressed myself in this regard fourteen years ago, when a  
combination of a few leading governments, a sort of Holy alliance,  
was advocated by the late Andrew Carnegie, who may be fairly  
considered as the father of this idea, having given to it more  
publicity and impetus than anybody else prior to the efforts of the  
President. While it can not be denied that such aspects might be of  
material advantage to some less fortunate peoples, it can not attain  
the chief objective sought. Peace can only come as a natural  
consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we  
are still far from this blissful realization, because few indeed,  
will admit the reality that God made man in His image in which case  
all earth men are alike. There is in fact but one race, of many  
colors. Christ is but one person, yet he is of all people, so why do  
some people think themselves better than some other people? [...]
   http://www.rexresearch.com/teslamt/tmagxmtr.htm#myinv6

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