I couldn't remember the details of how it came down; fortunately, there is a web page with details: During the last week of July 1903, residents around the Shoreham site experienced what was to be the only testing of Tesla’s equipment at this facility. Several days after these tests, his dream was destroyed when creditors from Westinghouse confiscated his heavier equipment for nonpayment for services rendered. In addition, James Warden sued Tesla for nonpayment of back taxes. In 1917, the 187-foot tower was destroyed by dynamite explosion as ordered by the U.S. government. It was demolished the same year by the Smiley Steel Company.
Apparently the Tower was to serve a twofold purpose: (1.) A Radio Transmitter for long range communications and (2.) A Collector of Ionospheric Electrical Energy to be converted into AC for distribution into a local system of Free Energy. I agree with McCanney regarding the disinfo campaign which claims that Tesla intended to distribute Free Energy through the air or through the ground to distant locations. Tesla talked about harnessing the energy of the Sun to produce Free Electricity which probably is one of the outcomes of his work at Colorado Springs earlier. Tesla knew about, and possibly even discovered, the Ionospheric Capacitor which is charged by the Sun to exceedingly high levels of electrical energy. He was able to tap into some of that energy at Colorado Springs with spectacular results. Whether Tesla's Tower would have worked the way that he intended remains a mystery. His work was stopped before he could complete his testing.
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