*Can we stop and appreciate just the level of detail Nikola used to describe his 'theoretical' technologies?* I mean jeez, it was spot on.

Nikola was at least 50 years ahead of his time. An absolute genius.

I didn't invent anything, I discovered what was already there. "Nikola Tesla"

I really love how knowledgable this guy is about esoteric “alt science”, he’s the only guy I’ve seen actually bring up the longitudinal waves thing as it pertains to Tesla’s plan

I went to the wardenclyffe lab recently and saw a tesla coil in action. Honestly the most beautiful thing ive seen. He was a genius. A magician. He is the reason we can communicate throughout the entire world. It's incredible. Gives me chills!

I was *NOT* expecting that music genre.

" I don’t care that they stole my idea … I care that they don’t have any of their own." Nikola Tesla

I love how this guy knows what he is talking about. Tesla wanted to put his Towner in the ionosphere and a WELL BUILT GROUND connection to send wireless power around the globe.

Can we appreciate this guy he actually pulls off videos with interests every other day massive respect man

Tesla is a legend, that's why I'm studying electrical engineering

"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world" Nikola Tesla

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” Nikola Tesla!

That prediction's accuracy gave me goosebumps. I don't know about you, But somehow I think Tesla would have made this tower work.

"No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market" Nikola Tesla

I don’t simply understand why his final work was destroyed. Loving that his name is going strong and now everybody knows who Tesla was.

Imaging bringing him back to life in the modern day with the technology we have today.

Can't wait for DJs to start scratching with Tesla coils and kitchen knives..

THIS VIDEO WAS SO INFORMATIVE MY HEAD STARTED TO WIGGLE *BACK* And *Forth*

The 'longitudinal wave" was only one theory. Wardenclyffe was also set to demonstrate the use of the upper atmosphere as one plate of a capacitor, to charge it against the earth, and draw that charge back down anywhere using a suitable tower/resonant circuit. I seem to remember hearing that he did manage to demonstrate this theory successfully, lighting up a bank of lightglobes at some distance from the tower - much further than could be accounted for by near field effect.

I'm a kid, and i still lisent to this. I want to make some useful inventions like Tesla.

That first circuit you showed is called a "tank circuit" and can go forever (theoretically) with superconductivity. Put next to another inductor would make a very efficient transformer. Being fed from a natural resource (earth) at a resonant frequency, that would be absolutely brilliant if it worked. The source of a tank circuit is DC voltage, but turns into AC voltage, which is far more efficient when it comes to transference. If you could get a solid and reliable source of DC voltage by simply tapping into the ground (seems odd, but look at potato batteries) then it seems absolutely plausible to make possible what Tesla set out to do.

*Tesla brought back to life in 2018* "Wow! It's just how I envisioned it....wait...what's that?" "Oh, those are wires that carry electricity to homes" "You're all idiots..."

The thing I like about this video is that you seem to approach deconstructing the Wardenclyffe Tower without bias, a lot of people want wireless energy to be true so badly they ignore any possible flaws in the tower

4:11 the skin effect at high voltages is pretty interesting stuff, I work with it quite often in amateur radio antennas. Something else that's pretty wild about skin effect is the incredibly "thick" power transmission cables carrying ultra high voltages coming from large hydroelectric power plants ETC usually aren't a "solid" cable with a bunch of strands inside, instead they're hollow! Made up of several interlocking spiral wound strips, kind of like how laminate wood flooring snaps together but in a circle. That way the power lines cost less because they use a fraction of the copper or aluminum, but also are many times stronger, more rigid and sag less because they're a fraction of the weight too.

At first I thought you were just some dude that owned a vacuum chamber and a hydraulic press and made entertaining videos. Lately I’ve seen that you REALLY know your stuff! You deserve every subscriber you’ve got.

Hey vsauce! Action lab here.

The amount of "back and forth" in this video is fascinating

I noticed you said " what tesla was trying to do?" He did do it! It's recorded in his autobiography that he would drive around in a car with a huge long antenna .

By the way, as I understand it, Tesla was trying to induce the other component of the dielectric field. One half is magnetic, which expands (like two like poles put together, and the other half is dielectric, or counter spacial, like the pressure hole that developes when you put two opposite poles of two magnets together. They don’t attract towards each other, they sink towards the dielectric field’s point between. So... Tesla’s longitudinal wave would not be like a slinky compressing, it would be like a solid stick or bar, being pushed on one side, and the other side moving away. This effect (according to Tesla, would travel much faster than the transverse wave we use today.) Like how a coaxial cable transmits energy, and contains the standing waves by a resonant impedance value between the center conductor and outer shield (return consuctor).

Nikola Tesla was the greatest genius of all time.

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." Nikola Tesla

the sparks playing the music was one of the coolest most incredible things i've ever seen, i did a report on him in middle school and didn't know some of this stuff very very cool. guy was an absolute genius and visionary.

I am really loving that "Back and Forth & Back and Forth"

you taught me SOO many things about science thanks man

One thing is for sure, there's a lot of back and forth going on in this video!

This was the most complete, and easy to understand, explanation of Tesla’s work that I have seen on KZfaq.

10:39 So if Tesla's dream came true, we would have really fast internet with no lag regardless of location?

Honestly one of the best Channels I found, its right on par with the BackyardScientist. They both have a special way of making scientific things and tidbits interesting, fun and understandable. Huge respect for both!

The words that go back and forth are still stuck in my head all the time.🤯

You have a gift for making this stuff understandable!!! A real gift! 😊

This is one of your best science Video's. I was realy interested with this video it's realy cool how you described wireless power. Great Job Action Lab

This totally blew my mind. Thank you so much, James, for this video. You are awesome.

Tesla was exceptional being, no one can understand about his concept of Tesla coil magnetizer transformer for wireless electricity. He knew well what he was doing.

Thank you for teaching us all about this. Very simply explained.

The amount of times he said back and forth is amazing

*50 Thomas Edison supporters disliked this.* 😂

Thank you for explaining it in simple terms. You are a good teacher :)

Thank you for explaining the tower. I’ve seen several documentaries and non explained it as well as you did.

my theory is that Egyptians knew about wireless energy before anyone if you read about the pyramids one of them seems to be more of a power plant rather then just a tomb.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says back and forth

FINALLY! A lucid explanation of Tesla's wireless power idea. THANK YOU!!

I always wanted to understand this concept you explain so well 👍

... also Tesla said repeatedly his system was non electromagnetic, it was dielectric electrostatic. simply monopolar standing wave

Great video! I know virtually nothing about electricity, but I didn’t feel lost. Very interesting stuff.

After watching _many_ tesla-coil-videos, this is the one that explains the resonance-thing so I can understand it.... Thx!

No cap the bit around 5:25 was dope as shit man the fact that could be used as a speaker is mindblowing

0:38 "the force is strong in you my young padawan"

this game me chills. The fact that people like nikola tesla exist is amazing and makes me feel so unbelievably small and humbled.

That was an excellent presentation. I spent 25 years in Alarms also I like your Sponsor. I have been retired a long time. I just subscribed

Thanks for the clear and concise explanations.

Okay - I'm not one of "those guys" - but I have seen a few videos on here that talk about the pyramids doing this exact same thing - using the underground chamber with liquids to create a pulse and channeling it through the top and such - and Obelisks working as the pins (Like in the diagram) - I'm asking the Action Lab (as someone who seems impartial) if you were to watch any of these videos - would that have been possible?

My favorite scientist is Nicole Tesla and my you tube favourite scientist is you

I appreciate your balanced take on this. Tesla was burned too many times and tragically we never got to see his notes after he died. If we had possiblity could find that the tower could harness the waves using different mechanics.

I've waited since I was a teenager to have someone explain the Tesla coil to the extent you just did. I'm 62 Thank you

Tesla wanted to disperse energy through the atmosphere, not the ground. He had successful trial runs, powering 200 light bulbs from 26 miles away from his laboratory.

Variable alternating Tesla arc discharge in the core so coils in a arc emitted enough if there’s enough power

Thank you for an amazing video. Please continue this work in any way you can.

Great work sir. A great way to explain.

*More videos on Nikola Tesla, Please*

This actually is a huge help explaining the basic principles of wireless energy! I'm honestly kind of tired of listening to people talk about how Tesla "Figured out" wireless electricity. When in actuality, he basically ran into a dead-end. I've always been curious what he was doing with Wardenclyffe Tower, but I could never get a straight answer. This was informative!!

Great video man. Thanks for teaching me a few things

you have to have a inverse frequency transmitting through the ground from the one being transmitted through the air it amps up the range drastically and you'll need a collection antenna one part of it stuck in the ground the other up in the air

I love Nicola Tesla, raise my hand if you do it too

BEST SCIENCE RELATED CHANNEL EVER!!! Btw Have you done PhD in Science? You are so genius.

Thank you for this

Great job explaininG wardenclyffe ☝🏽

Also another question I have; since there can be longitudinal waves that already exist in the earth, is it possible to use another means to create longitudinal waves. If I remember correctly, Tesla was also working on an "earthquake" machine which supposedly destroyed a building that proceeded to match the resonance wave of the building. I wonder if this was his backup means of transportation of wireless electricity through the Earth.

6:18 its also because the light bulb is changing the resonating frequency of the secondary to the enviroment, and thus making it "out of tune", and it reduces the output power

Great explanation of how Tesla himself envisioned this. Everything is coming together and his studies regarding frequencies and resonance are starting to make even more sense.

9:45 rectify: in free-space or other uniform isotropic dielectrics, electro-magnetic waves are strictly transverse. However electromagnetic waves can display a longitudinal component in the electric and/or magnetic fields when traversing birefringent materials, or inhomogeneous materials especially at interfaces (surface waves for instance) such as Zenneck waves.

i recomend Nikola Teslas autobyografy "my inventions"

He was taping into the ether, our earth is a giant coil.

This was really well explained and illustrated. Thank you.

1926 quote? Gosh. In 1986 a manager asked what I wanted, as some annual cash was available. "I want everyone to know what I'm thinking within 20 minutes". Their reply, "You're off your trolley.. " still amuses me :)

I had this video muted at 0:05 and wondered why he was showing a picture his great grandfather or something. Turns out, you look similar to Nikola Tesla.

My favourite part was when he said "back and forth"

You have so much knowledge

Thank you for such a nice breakdown.

Hope the action lab can give me a heart again!!!!

Nikola Tesla was the true genius but among fools. So the fools thought that Tesla was a fool. XD!

Well explained. Good job.

Thank you for your explanation...😁😀

wow an new way to play music and light lights? We can call you disk jockey James :)

Hmmm the tower u said was about revieving messages and being able to see the other from distance, he needed it to make radiowaves to get in connect. The actual thing about wireless electricity was only a idea he had and they didnt let him do it, he may have completed it as idea, but he didnt want to share his secrets (Tesla fan)

Good video, appreciate it 👍

this guy explains better than most school teachers, easy to understand

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Hello, I realize I have commented on this video before. I have more to say now that might help people out, including Action Lab. "It" was not intended for wireless power as much as it was intended for single-wire (single-conductor) power transmission through the ground alone. The other possibility that would make this wireless power was the implementation of [alternating] electrostatic induction or capacitively coupled power transfer to a flying craft between the transmitter and the ionosphere Both of these realizations operated in some way on the principle of resonant power transfer. There is more to Tesla's tech than this, but I think I describe most of it in clear terms. The final component was the wireless transfer of DC, but I really don't understand it too well at this point. Maybe it was supposed to be a variant of "Teleforce"? It takes a lot of digging to find food fringe science info, and Tesla information is (believe it or not) still being suppressed or at least buried under junk results in search engines. Not only tesla tech, but other alternative thinkers and their inventions have disappeared from the web. The man who made the electrostatic "vent" which was an ion-fan, a speaker, and an antenna as far as I remember, is not possible to find anymore, even for people who know what they are looking for. One thing people negate when thinking about Tesla tech is the extreme potentials he desired to use to transmit the power with almost no current, but still move enormous amounts of power, and with ease. for some single-wire info see: amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h-BhYLV6yNCVeI0.html (Resonance Single Wire Power Transmission) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMlggcqExpzcenk.html (One Wire Transmission Powering a Laptop) for some radiant-energy related info: amasci.com/tesla/nearfld1.html free-energy-info.co.uk/Chapter7.pdf (Patrick J. Kelly's A Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices Chapter 7: Aerial Systems) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j86Fh5Cpv9GzaaM.html (TheOldScientist's Tesla Radiant Energy) information I am un-certain of labeling: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_electricity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_atmospheric_electrical_circuit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser (relevant to the transmission of single-wire power through a plasma-channel_virtual-conductor) www.tuks.nl/pdf/Eric_Dollard_Document_Collection/Theory%20of%20Wireless%20Power%20by%20Eric%20Dollard_OCR.pdf kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oa5jeLeFyZzGgH0.html (Eric Dollard - Longitudinal Energy (Scalar Waves - Mutual Induction - Wireless Transmission of DC)) Just a side note that Tesla was wanting to use his transmitter in conjunction to the sun-ionosphere-earth electrical circuit to create a type of un-confined plasma antenna to capture the vast amounts of radiant energy flowing from the sun, that forms most of the energy in earth's electric circuit. I have suspicions that he was intending to make a vacuum plasma by using extreme potentials to cause breakdown of the space, as suggested after N. Tesla by T. T. Brown, and I believe is somewhat related to the ideas in the Quantum vacuum thruster; You will need to do more research before the connection I just presented begins to make more sense. I will provide a video link of Eric Dollard explaining this aspect of Tesla's 'World Energy and Information System': kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htGirbuG3ty3dJs.html (Preview of Theory Calculation & Operation of the Colorado Springs Tesla Transformer by Eric Dollard) It has been a long time since I researched the subject, and I am sorry that I do not have any single complete source, as well as the fact that my sources together only tell a part of the story. Perhaps the Action Lab could explain single-conductor_single-wire as I have also requested of ElectroBOOM. These experiments need to be able to disprove the existence of a significant capacitive coupling between the toploads of the transmitter and the receiver, or in other words, disprove a wireless variant of SWER is at play, and instead that the potential of earth is being alternated to resonate it and display this power at an arbitrarily distant co-resonant receiver as long as it is at an anti-node in the geometry of the transmitted power. P.S. I am not a representative of anyone except myself, but I have done research on this field and figured I should share information that could help others. Toodleoo.

Awesome, explained very nicely

I'm watching this video at the end of 2020, thank you so much for your information.