Seite - 60 - in Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech

60 Fig.: Tesla in his laboratory at Colorado Springs (Wikimedia Commons, Welcomeimages.com, CC-By 4.0). In January 1900, Tesla travelled back to New York to raise capital for an even bigger transmitter and receiver to transmit energy wirelessly all over the world. He was able to win over entrepreneur and investor John Pierpont Morgan as financial backer, and managed to persuade him with pictures of his laboratory in Colorado Springs and the idea of a continuous transatlantic data transmission. Wardenclyffe Tower, which Tesla planned to build on Long Island, was about 100 metres high and 30 metres in diameter, and for struc- tural reasons had a foundation 36 metres deep and 57 metres above ground. 100 million volts were to be produced using a Tesla coil. The construction