1889 because the altitude was suitable. We close out todays cspan cities tour of Colorado Springs with nikola tesla, his scientific breakthroughs, and his rivalry with thomas edison. Richard nikola tesla became with this new creation going on in the world of electricity. Country, he to this started working right away with thomas edison, but there was some conflict there, because what developed as the current was because edison committed to using directcurrent, and tesla understood that alternating economical ande more effective and could be transferred over great distances at a far, far less cost, but in a lot ofrest other areas of physics and eventually, hed. Omes to colorado in 1899 jessica this exhibition explores some of the ideas that tesla was exploring during his career, through some Historical Information and reproduction photographs, and that also that mayrtist projects be had some of the same scientific or creative territory. One of the things we found interesting to explore the exhibition is the artistic process,nd scientific and trying to explore the creative aspects of science. There is sort of this misconception that science is thatly straightforward, the process of trial and error intuition orlve and i think that has really been proven untrue, that there is this very creative, intuitive piece to science, and we wanted to sort of make that more transparent. Thinking about tesla and his process, where his ideas seem to cases from nowhere. The trajectory from where he started to where he ended up was a little unclear, and taking a look at that process, what does that mean for a scientist to make intuitive leaps or to think intuitively . The next piece is by an artist, bradshaw, in collaboration with an engineer, robert bishop, and it is called tesla radio log. Part of an ongoing exhibition where she explores the resident capacity of rocks to transmit radio signals, and one of the tesla was exploring when he was here in Colorado Springs was even strive to understand whether the earth had enough resident capacity that it could transmit electricity and radio signal directly through the earth to get a transmission to the other side of the globe instantaneously of radio or of power, and that was one of things he was exploring here. He left Colorado Springs thinking of the possibility because he did find some resident capacity of the earth. Unfortunately, it is not enough to do what he hoped it would do, and then the intergalactic signal. What he experienced while he was here. He heard some very mathematically precise and repeated radio bursts when he was working with his large the onlynd felt conclusion he could come to was that it was originating from mars and that it was a sign of intelligent life because of the regularity, and scientists later on came back and replicated through the experiments he was doing and found that what he was radio burstswas which isters moon io very regular, mathematical, predictable bursts, so we hear that space noise transmitted through the rock. Tesla was friends with a man named Leonard Curtis, and he knew some of the experiments that tesla wanted to conduct, so he invited him to come here, and he said if you want to test the upper atmosphere in new york, basically youre at sea level or 10 feet above sea level, but if you come here, youre at 6000 feet, so that made a lot of sense to tesla, so he arrived of 1899 and was here then for the next seven months. The first thing when he arrives withis he works out Leonard Curtis the agreement that he would have some space to build a laboratory and also that of thewas on the board Power Company in Colorado Springs, so curtis provided him all of the electricity he needed in his lab. He was interested in testing out , mainlyries on wireless being able to send photographs or music without using wires. You have to understand the context of that time, if you wanted to send a message to the someone in another city, there has to be a wire, so you would either use a telephone or a telegraph, but by that point, tesla understood scientifically that we can send things without using wires, but he wanted to test that. His phrase when he gave his first talk was if you wanted to send a message from pikes peak to paris, and he knew that he inld use a wireless method distances of, say, 50 feet. He had done that with little with and a pool and electronics being able to control those, but he needed to have a transmitter that had far more power, and that is one of the things that he did at his laboratory, is developed this created 10 that million volts in order to send longges or whatever distances, and he also had to receivers that would connect properly with that transmitter, so the pictures that we have seen from his feet tall, about 222 what would beout known as the tesla coil. Basically having the room, because the tesla coil takes and increases the frequency to a point where there is an enormous amount of voltage. The great story or one of the popular stories that came out of his experiments here was that he and his assistant were working one night and testing this for the first time, and he told the assistant to throw the switch, and all of a sudden, there was electricity filling his lab. It was creating thunder. It went out the top, and then in about five or six seconds, it went off. Tesla asked his assistant, why did you shut that off . And he said, i didnt. Is hewhat had happened had blown out be power plant in town, but in terms of the practical things that came out of his work here, it certainly laid the basis for xrays, for the resident, and a number of things that we have today, and he was one of a number of scientists at that time that made a major contribution to the technological age we have today. Announcer tomorrow, the cspan citys port stays in Colorado Springs or the literary life of the city. That begins at 6 00 p. M. Here on cspan. Cspan is marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week with special programming. Tomorrow night, scenes from new orleans one year after the storm, and then tore hurricane damage and speaking with those on the ground. Here is some of what you will see tomorrow night. Not really for us to say should it be rebuilt or not rebuilt. I think it is reasonable to ask that we have a flood Protection System that is going to work. When you see this, and we just a few blocks up the road, there is holy cross, with all of that vacant housing, you would things first. Irst maybe get people to higher ground, because that house cannot be rebuilt. It is not possible. That. U can still smell you will notice it later when somebody tells you you smell bad, because you end up smelling bad after you have been here