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"I have made recent discoveries of inestimable value which are referred in the marked passage of the clipping enclosed ... . The flying machine has completely demoralized the world, so much that in some cities, as London and Paris, people are in mortal fear from aerial bombing. The new means I have perfected afford absolute protection against this and other forms of attack." - Nikola Tesla (letter to J. P. Morgan, Jr. on November 29, 1934)
Teleforce refers to Nikola Tesla's macroscopic particle beam projector, first mentioned in the New York Sun, July 10, 1934. This system Tesla mentioned was a method to ultilize a specialized particle-beam type projector (an invention that Tesla intended to be used as an instrument of national defense mainly). As can be seen from Tesla's words written in a letter to J. P. Morgan, Jr., Teleforce ststems were primarily intended for use in national defense. Tesla stated that nations, when detecting invading armies, could destroy thier opponent's military units and reduce incoming ariel craft as far as 200 miles away. Teleforce can, reportedly, be used alternatively for communication and in techniques for the location of subterranean mineral deposits.
Since Tesla's 78th birthday, specific details over the device have been scare. The concepts of teleforce is reasonable founded on the alternating current polyphase wireless transmission systems developed by Telsa and is related on general mechanical energy principles. It ultilized the theory of "telegeodynamics (i.e., Tesla's mechanical earth-resonance theory). Inaddition, the principles of wirelessly transcieving high potentials (in the millions of volts) and transmitting high tension currents on narrow radiant energy ultraviolet ionizing beams by means of conductive rarefied gasous mediums (similar to the means of artifically creating auroral displays) are incorporated.
The device, reportedly from some sources, is based upon a large Van de Graaff generator of unique design and a special type of open-ended vacuum tube, comprising a system for the acceleration of very small charged metallic particles to prodigiously high velocity (about 48 times the speed of sound, according to Tesla). The particles were projected out of the tube by means of electrostatic repulsion. The tubes are to be designed to project a single row of highly charged particles, and there would be no dispersion whatever even at great distance (according to Tesla). Since the cross section of the wave carriers might be reduced to almost microscopic dimensions, an immense concentration of energy, practically irrespective of distance, could be attained.
Teleforce's mechanical power transmission system (and the associated telegeodynamics) is based, reportedly from some sources, primarily Tesla's reciprocating engine Tesla patented in 1894. The reciprocating engine patent provides a means for engines, which under the applied forces such as elastic tension of steam or gas under pressure, will yield constant oscillatory movements (in wide limits). It also functions at a constant irrespective of the loads on the system, frictional losses, or other negative factors (which degrade other engines). Primarily the enegine converts "pressure" into mechanical power. This type of system was first described in record of his time in Colorado Springs. The principles of operation in the mechanical oscillators of Tesla are well understood, the underground detection is not.
References
- "On Roentgen Rays". Electrical Review, New York, March 11, 1896. (DOC format)
- "Possibilities of Electro-Static Generators". Scientific American, March, 1934. (DOC format)
- "Tesla Invents Peace Ray". New York Sun, July 10, 1934.
- "Death-Ray Machine Described", New York Sun, July 11, 1934.
- "Tesla, at 78, Bares New 'Death-Beam"', New York Times, July 11, 1934.
- "Tesla's Ray". Time, July 23, 1934.
- Viereck, George Sylvester, "A Machine To End War" (by Nikola Tesla). Liberty, February, 1935.
- "'Death Ray' for Planes". New York Times, September 22, 1940.
- "Nikola Tesla's Teleforce & Telegeodynamics Proposals". Twenty First Century Books, November 14, 1998. 124 pgs. ISBN 0963601288
This article or an earlier version based on text from Twenty First Century Books' Tesla FAQ, submitted to this encyclopedia by the original author.