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Tesla's writings have many references to the use of his wireless power
transmission technology as a directed energy weapon. These references
are examined in their relationship to the Tunguska explosion of
1908 which may have been a test firing of Tesla's energy weapon.
This article
was first published in a different form in 1990. The idea of a
Tesla directed energy weapon causing the Tunguska explosion was
incorporated in a fictional biography (1994), by another writer,
and was the subject of a Sightings television program segment.
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The French
ship Iena
blew up in 1907. Electrical experts were sought by the press for
an explanation. Many thought the explosion was caused by an electrical
spark and the discussion was about the origin of the ignition.
Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion vacuum tube adopted by many
radio broadcasters, pointed out that Nikola Tesla had experimented
with a "dirigible torpedo" capable of delivering such
destructive power to a ship through remote control. He noted,
though, Tesla also claimed that the same technology used for remotely
controlling vehicles also could project an electrical
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wave of
"sufficient intensity to cause a spark in a ship's magazine
and explode it." (1)
In the summer of 1913, Signor Giulio Ulivi, blew up a gas meter with
his "F-Ray" device and destroyed his laboratory. Then,
in August of that year, exploded three mines in the port of Trouville
for a number of high ranking French naval officers. The following
November, he travelled to Splezzia, Italy to repeat the experiments
on several old ships and torpedo boats for that country's navy.(2)
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