The Long Island Tower That Was Meant to Broadcast Wireless Power to the World and Was Demolished for Scrap in 1917
Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island was 187 feet tall, built between 1901 and 1903 as a global wireless-power transmission station. J.P. Morgan stopped funding it in 1903. Tesla mortgaged the tower in 1915 and lost the property in 1917 when the steel was sold for $1,750 scrap value. The site is now the Tesla Science Center.
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