Magnifying transmitter

The magnifying transmitter, also referred to as Tesla magnifier, was about 1899 an electro- technical design of Nikola Tesla in his laboratory in Colorado Springs for the generation of high frequency, high voltage by means of resonant peak. He is essentially a form of the Tesla transformer represents the name goes on records in Tesla's diary to his work in Colorado Springs back.

At the time, about 1899 Tesla had come to believe to have found a working " world's energy system". In December 1899 several recordings were made in the laboratory and in the vicinity of his Magnifying Transmitter for promotional purposes, made ​​by chief photographer of the then renowned Century Magazines Dickenson V. Alley. Tesla moved on January 7, 1900 to New York and let the lab as it was. Tesla paid neither the open electricity bills to the local electricity company nor the lack can pay his workers, which is why it five years later indicted for this debt and the facilities and materials of the Magnifying Transmitter sold as a building material.

1901 Tesla began with financial support from JP Morgan to build the Wardenclyffe Tower in Long Iceland, even more complex with identem operating principle, which, however, was not completed.