Some notes on transmission line representations of Tesla’s transmitters

In this paper, we present a transmission line representation of various Tesla’s oscillating transmitters and of propagation based on “true conduction”, a Tesla’s concept of non-Hertzian wireless transmission. We follow bits of Tesla’s papers, mainly “The True Wireless”, from which is obvious that his theory is in essence compatible to the transmission line theory, and compare results obtained by the model and those given by Tesla, as well as predict some theoretical characteristics of his resonating coils. Although his conception of a more efficient radio transmission by “non-Hertzian waves” has never been recognized exactly what he claimed it to be, his concept of radio apparatus prevailed as they were the first patented true radio systems.