“The greatest good will comes from technical improvements tending to unification
and harmony, and my wireless transmitter is preeminently such. By its means the
human voice and likeness will be reproduced everywhere and factories driven
thousands of miles from waterfalls furnishing the power; aerial machines will be
propelled around the earth without a stop and the sun's energy controlled to create
lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile
land. Its introduction for telegraphic, telephonic and similar uses will automatically
cut out the statics and all other interferences which at present impose narrow
limits to the application of the wireless. . . ."
-My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; Chapter 5, The Magnifying Transmitter