Wardenclyffe Tower full view, 4 June 1904

Wardenclyffe tower wireless power station built by serbian american inventor nikola tesla in shoreham, new york 1901-1904. This was intended to be both a transatlantic wireless telegraphy (radio) station, and to transmit power without wires. This view shows the tower itself which stood behind a powerhouse. Essentially a huge tesla coil, it consisted of a 187 foot wooden tower topped by a hemispherical 68 ft. Copper capacitive electrode. By 1904 tesla's investors had pulled out and the facility was never finished. It was torn down in 1916 caption: "tesla central power plant and transmitting tower for world telegraphy, at wardenclyffe, long island, n. Y. (the tower is a pyramid having eight sides; smallest dimension across base 96 feet; height, 154 feed; total height from ground to top 187 feet; cupola on top, 65 feet in diameter)". Date: 4 June 1904.