Knob Hill is a neighborhood in central Colorado Springs, Colorado, one mile (1.6 km) east of downtown, extending east from South Union Blvd to South Circle Drive, and from East Willamette Ave south to Airport Rd. It is most famous for its connection with Nikola Tesla, and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.
Coordinates: 38°50′17.628″N 104°46′55.956″W / 38.83823°N 104.78221°W / 38.83823; -104.78221
At this location, in 1899, Tesla, several of his assistants, and a local contractor commenced the construction of Tesla's laboratory shortly after arriving in Colorado Springs. The lab's primary purpose was to conduct experiments with high frequency electricity and other phenomena. Its secondary purpose was for research into wireless transmission of electrical power. The lab possessed the largest Tesla Coil ever built, fifty-two feet (16 m) in diameter, which was a preliminary version of the magnifying transmitter. This coil reproduced the effects of lightning and its accompanying thunder for the first time in history. On January 7, 1900, Tesla's lab here was torn down, broken up, and its contents sold to pay debts when Tesla left Colorado Springs.
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“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)