IN THE YEAR 1905,a few construction workers gathered in a small New York village to erect a particularly lofty structure, a 187 feet tall tower. Atop this tower was perched a fifty-five ton dome of conductive metals, and beneath it stretched an iron root system that penetrated more than 300 feet deep into the earth. The structure was named “power tower” and its intended purpose was to bring about a global energy revolution.
The idea in the mind of the tower’s inventor was fairly eccentric— he proposed to conduct electricity through the earth and the sky, enabling a wireless transmission of electric power across large areas of land. Lamentably, the tower was never completed as envisioned by its inventor due to shortage of funds. Eventually, the tower was unceremoniously demolished in 1917 for salvage of the debts that accrued through the project.
The name of the inventor was Nikola…
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