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How well do you know the history of Colorado Springs?
Sure, you might know that Gen. William Jackson Palmer founded the city and that Pikes Peak was Katharine Lee Bates inspiration for the song America the Beautiful. But how well do you really know the history of the town you live in?
Not surprisingly, there s much more to the region than Garden of the Gods and a statue of a man on a horse that can cause traffic problems. Here are nine historical facts about Colorado Springs you probably didn t know.
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Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
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One of Colorado Spring’s most famous visitors was electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, who in the spring of 1899, set up a laboratory on a small grassy hill in what is now Knob Hill.
Tesla was drawn to Colorado Springs by the same qualities that brought thousands of tuberculosis patients to the mountain city the city’s thin and dry air. But unlike the city’s many residents, Tesla was not looking for a cure.
Tesla believed that electricity could be transmitted across vast distances through the atmosphere without using wires. To test his theories of wireless transfer of electrical energy, Tesla needed a place that was situated in the mountains where the air was thin and easy to ionize, and therefore more conductive to electricity. Tesla found Colorado Springs’s location at six thousand feet favorable for his research. The land was free and sparsely populated which gave him privacy. Also, the dryness of the air minimized l