Despite his growing eccentricity, he was still flooded with amazing ideas and at the beginning of World War I he described yet another idea that was too far ahead of its time. A system that would used high-frequency radio waves and reflect of the hulls of vessels in the area that could be read off a florescent screen. We know know this system as radar. He was also the first to warn of an era of flying vehicles without wings that would be remotely controlled to land with an explosive device on an unexpected enemy, also known as a torpedo.
Tesla suggested war be converted into, “a mere spectacle of machines,” he had gained a hatred for warfare and hoped with his abilities to end it all together. In 1931 Tesla announced that he was on the verge of developing an entirely new source of energy. Meanwhile, Europe was under a dark cloud of war once again. July 11, 1934 the New York Times boasted “Tesla, at 78 Bares New Death Beam.” Tesla declared war would be impossible as every country would have their own “invisible Chinese wall,” the new invention would send energy through concentrated particle beams over 200 miles and could destroy thousands of enemy planes.
Tesla once again contacted his friend J.P. Morgan but was unable to convince him to invest in his ideas. He contacted other worldly figures such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain but he soon resigned after being out-maneuvered by Hitler. Tesla eventually gave up on his anti-war weapon, frustrated and having no funding he sent a highly technical paper to a number of allied nations titled, “New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media.” The paper described in detail what would become a charged particle beam weapon later developed by both the Soviet Union and the United States.
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