the first thing -- when he -- he works out with leonard curtis -- so curtis provided him all the needed in his lab. he was interested in testing out his theories on wireless telegraph. basically being able to send messages without using wires. you have to understand the context of that time that if you wanted to send a message to someone in another city, there had to be a wire. so you either use the telephone or a telegraph, but by that point, tesla understood scientifically that we could sign things -- send things without using wires. his phrase when he gave his first talk here was that he wanted to send a message from pike's peak to paris and he he could use wireless wireless method to -- and distances of, say, 50 feet. that and little to have but he needed a transmitter that had far more power. that is one of the things he is in his laboratory that oped this transmitter created 10,000,000 v in order send messages or whatever long distances. and he also had developed receivers that would connect properly with that transmitter. so, the big -- the pictures we have seen of him at his lab

the first thing, when he arrives here, is he works out with leonard curtis the agreement that he would have some space to build a laboratory and also that curtis was on the board of the power company in colorado springs, so curtis provided him all the electricity he needed in his lab. he was interested in testing out his theories on wireless teleography, being able to send messages or photographs or music without using wires. we have to understand the context of that time, that if you wanted to send a message to someone in another city, there had to be a wire. so you either used a telephone or a telegraph. but by that point, tesla understood scientifically that we could send things without using wires. but he wanted to test his theories. his phrase, when he gave his first talk here, was he wanted to send a message from pikes peak to paris. he knew he could use a wireless method in distances of, say, 50 feet. he had done that on little boats on a pool, with electronics, able to control those. but he needed to have a transmitter that had far more power. and that's one of the things he di