Nikola Tesla and his vision of wireless energy at the beginning of the 20th century

That Tesla lived before his time proved his ideas in 1901. He gained $150, 000 from financier J.P. Morgan to build a mushroom-shaped tower for transmitting messages, telephony, and images to ships across the Atlantic. Back then, more than a hundred years ago, he was convinced in wireless energy, believing from his experiments on radio and microwaves that he could transmit millions of volts of electricity through the air. They’d had started work on the structure later called Wardenclyffe Tower, but they abandoned the project in 1906 because Morgan cut off funds before it went off. Some say that the investor Morgan realized that this invention would cripple his other energy-sector holdings. Imagine what our visionary Tesla would do if he only had the money.