Eric Dollard
Eric Dollard is an American electrical engineer, inventor, and researcher known for his experimental replication of Nikola Tesla's longitudinal wave transmission and his work on advanced electromagnetic theory that mainstream academia has not adopted. He is regarded in suppressed-technology research communities as one of the few individuals to have empirically reproduced Tesla's wireless power transmission experiments, and his work is referenced by researchers investigating the suppression of free energy and scalar wave technologies. Within the broader research community investigating the suppression of alternative energy and propulsion technologies, Dollard occupies a unique position as a practitioner with direct hands-on experience of Tesla-era hardware and methods.
Biography
Career and experimental work
Dollard's experimental work centers on Tesla's longitudinal or "scalar" electromagnetic waves, which differ fundamentally from the transverse waves described in standard Hertzian electromagnetic theory. He claims to have built functioning analogue systems demonstrating energy transmission without conventional conductors, using methods derived directly from Tesla's unpublished notes and patents. His primary focus has been on demonstrating that Tesla's non-Hertzian wave propagation — often described as "longitudinal electricity" or "scalar wave" transmission — is a physically real and reproducible phenomenon, not a theoretical speculation or artifact of Tesla's unconventional notation.
Dollard's work is rooted in both practical electrical engineering and a deep engagement with the mathematical formalism of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Tesla's contemporary and the mathematician who formalized alternating current theory for the General Electric corporation. Dollard emphasizes Steinmetz as foundational to understanding the electrical principles underlying Tesla's suppressed discoveries, arguing that Steinmetz's formal treatment of reactive power and complex electrical quantities pointed toward the same phenomena that Tesla was working on experimentally.
Tesla legacy
Dollard represents himself as a direct inheritor of the Tesla experimental tradition — not through organizational affiliation or academic lineage, but through hands-on reconstruction of Tesla's apparatus from primary sources. He describes working directly with Tesla-era hardware, including portions of equipment that passed through various Tesla research organizations, and using Tesla's own notebooks and published work as engineering specifications rather than theoretical documents.
Among researchers exploring advanced propulsion and energy physics, Dollard is cited as having directly handled Tesla-era hardware and reproduced Tesla's experiments with longitudinal wave transmission. Salvatore Pais, the U.S. Navy physicist associated with patents for high-energy electromagnetic field-based propulsion, has been noted as familiar with Dollard's work through shared researchers in the Tesla tradition.
Disclosure and public activities
Suppression claims
Dollard's research has been conducted largely outside institutional settings, and he has described systematic efforts — including the destruction of his laboratory equipment — that he attributes to suppression by interests opposed to open energy research. He has described several instances in which laboratory facilities where he conducted work were lost, destroyed, or seized under circumstances he considers non-coincidental.
Dollard is a recurring figure in the community of researchers who argue that Tesla's most significant energy discoveries were deliberately buried after Tesla's death and the seizure of his papers by US government agents. In this framework, Tesla's work on wireless power transmission, longitudinal wave propagation, and the Tesla coil as a vehicle for broadcast power are described not as failed or incomplete projects but as suppressed technologies that worked. The alleged motivation for suppression is the incompatibility of broadcast free energy with metered electricity revenue models.
Connection to free energy and exotic propulsion research
In the broader research community focused on exotic propulsion — including electrogravitics, antigravity, and alien reproduction vehicle propulsion — the Tesla longitudinal wave tradition that Dollard represents is frequently cited as the theoretical and experimental foundation for claimed classified propulsion achievements. Tom Valone, a former US Patent Office engineer who researched suppressed electrotherapy and exotic propulsion technologies, described Tesla's coil and alternating current work as foundational to both healing and propulsion applications, linking directly to the research lineage that Dollard represents.
Tesla's coil discoveries "became a very popular medical field of endeavor right after 1895," and the subsequent suppression of electrotherapy by regulatory agencies fits the same pattern of suppression affecting energy and propulsion technologies — a pattern consistent with Dollard's own reported experiences of laboratory destruction and institutional obstruction.
Mark McCandlish, the defense industry conceptual artist and ARV researcher, independently described the same Tesla coil and longitudinal wave phenomena in the context of alien reproduction vehicle propulsion, stating that "every time you hit those capacitors and the electrons with a pulse of electricity from the Tesla coil, you create longitudinal waves, the same scalar waves we talked about" — a direct confirmation that the Tesla longitudinal wave tradition Dollard represents is foundational to the physics underlying classified propulsion systems.
Steinmetz connection
Dollard's emphasis on Charles Proteus Steinmetz — described by Dollard as the key mathematical interpreter of Tesla's discoveries — is a distinctive feature of his work. The Homopolar Generator — the subject of Tom Valone's master's degree — was also an area Tesla had published in, illustrating the deep interconnection between Steinmetz's formalizations and Tesla's experimental program. Steinmetz's complex power and reactive power formalism provides the mathematical basis for understanding Tesla's non-Hertzian electromagnetic propagation, and the deliberate exclusion of Steinmetz's more advanced electrical theory from academic curricula is part of the same suppression apparatus that buried Tesla's primary discoveries.