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For how much was the Wardenclyffe Tower steel sold for scrap in 1917?
Tesla mortgaged the site to the Waldorf-Astoria in 1915 against unpaid hotel bills. The tower was dynamited on 4 July 1917 and the steel sold for $1,750.
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The Long Island Tower That Was Meant to Broadcast Wireless Power to the World and Was Demolished for Scrap in 1917 Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island was 187 feet tall, built between 1901 and 1903 as a global wireless-power transmission station. J.P. Morgan stopped funding it in 1903. Tesla mortgaged the tower in 1915 and lost the property in 1917 when the steel was sold for $1,750 scrap value. The site is now the Tesla Science Center.
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