12. Microfilm letter, Robert U. Johnson to Tesla, December 30, 1919, Library of Congress.
13. Letter, Katharine Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
CHAPTER 23. PIGEONS
1. Microfilm letter, Tesla to E. M. Herr, president of Westinghouse, November 13, 1920, Library of Congress.
2. Microfilm letter, Westinghouse Electric Company to Tesla, November 28, 1921, Library of Congress.
3. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Westinghouse Electric Company, 1921, Library of Congress.
4. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Westinghouse, January 22, 1922, Library of Congress. Also February 23 and March 11, 1922.
5. Microfilm letter, Tripp to Tesla, early 1922, Library of Congress.
6. “Hundredth Anniversary Nikola Tesla—and Ivan Meštrović,” Enjednicar, Serbian Cultural Society Education, Croatian Serbs, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, April 11, 1956, pp. 1–2.
7. “Secanja na Teslu Kenet Suizia” (“Kenneth Swezey’s Recollections of Nikola Tesla”), Tesla—Belgrade, IV (1957), 38–39, pp. 45–48.
8. K. M. Swezey, “Nikola Tesla,” Psychology, October 1927, p. 60.
9. Nikola Tesla, “A Story of Youth Told by Age,” Smithsonian Institution.
10. O’Neill, Genius, pp. 309–10.
11. Ibid., pp. 311–12.
12. Ibid., pp. 315–17.
13. Jule Eisenbud, “Two Approaches to Spontaneous Case Material,” Journal of American Society for Psychic Research, July 1963.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
CHAPTER 24. TRANSITIONS
1. Detroit Free Press, August 10, 1924, Feature sec., p. 4. See also, Collier’s, “When Woman Is Boss,” January 30, 1926.
2.Collier’s, op. cit.
3. Ibid.
4. Microfilm letter, Johnson to Tesla, April 9, 1925, Library of Congress.
5. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Johnson, June 3, 1925, Library of Congress.
6. Letter, Johnson to Tesla, spring 1926, Butler Library, Columbia University.
7. Letter, Tesla to Johnson, April 6, 1926, Butler Library, Columbia University.
8. Letter, Johnson to Tesla, 1926, Butler Library, Columbia University.
9. Colorado Springs Gazette, May 30, 1924, p. 1.
10. Microfilm letter, Tesla to Johnson, 1929, Library of Congress.
CHAPTER 25. THE BIRTHDAY PARTIES
1. Kaempffert, “Electrical Sorcerer.”
2. “Tesla at 75,” Time, July 20, 1931, pp. 27, 30; New York Times, July 5, 1931, II., p. 1; “Tesla, Electrical Wizard,” Montreal Herald, July 10, 1931; “Father of Radio, 75,” Detroit News, July 10, 1931; Kosta Kulišić, “Sedamdesetpetogodišnjica Nikole Tesle,” Politika, Belgrade, July 11, 20, 21, 1931.
3.Time, July 20, 1931.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Nikola Tesla, “Our Future Motive Power,” Everyday Science and Mechanics, December 1931, p. 26.
9. Letter, Prof. Warren Rice to author, September 5, 1980.
10. Dr. Gustave Kolischer, “Further Consideration of Diathermy and Malignancy,” Archives of Physical Therapy, X-Ray, Radium, Vol. 13 (December 1932), pp. 780–81.
CHAPTER 26. CORKS ON WATER
1. Letter, Tesla to Viereck, April 7, 1934.
2. Letter, Tesla to Viereck, December 17, 1934.
3. Nikola Tesla, “A Machine to End War,” Liberty Magazine, February 1935.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid. See also, New York Sun, “Invents Peace Ray—Tesla Describes Beam of Destructive Energy,” July 10, 1934; New York Times, “Tesla . . . Bares New ‘Death Beam’” July 11, 1934; Time,“Tesla’s Ray,” July 23, 1934; New York Herald Tribune, July 11, 1934; New York World Telegram, July 10, 1937.
7. Letter, Tesla to New York Times, “Tribute to King Alexander,” October 21, 1934, IV, p. 5.
8. Microfilm letter, Tesla to J. P. Morgan, November 29, 1934, Library of Congress.
9. Ibid.
10. Microfilm letter, Kintner to Tesla, April 5, 1934, Library of Congress.
11. Letter, Dr. Albert J. Phillips to author, February 10, 1979.
12. Ibid.
13. Microfilm letter, Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Library of Congress.
14. Microfilm letter, Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Library of Congress.
15. Microfilm letter, Johnson to Tesla, n.d. (mid-1930s), Library of Congress.
16. Microfilm letter, Johnson to Tesla, n.d., Library of Congress.
17. O’Neill, Genius, p. 313.
18. Microfilm letters, Westinghouse Company to Tesla, April 29, 1938, Library of Congress. See also: Nikola Tesla. Spomenica povodom njegove 80 godisnjice. Livre commemoratif a l’occasion de son 80ème anniversaire. Gedenkbuch anlässlich seines 80sten Geburt-stages. Memorandum book on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Belgrade, Priredilo i izdalo Drus`tvo za podizanje Instituta Nikole Tesle; Belgrade, Edition de la Société pour la fondation de l’Institut Nikola Tesla, 136, 519 pp. (tributes in original languages in which written).
CHAPTER 27. COSMIC COMMUNION
1. Nikola Tesla, unpublished paper, 1936, part appears in New York Herald Tribune, July 9, 1937, “Tesla Devises Vacuum Tube Atom-Smasher.” Nikola Tesla, “German Cosmic Ray Theory Questioned,” letter to New York Herald Tribune, March 3, 1935. See also, “Tesla, 79 . . . New Inventions,” New York Times, July 7, 1935, II, p. 4.
2. “Tesla Has Plans to Signal Mars.” New York Sun, July 12, 1937, p. 6; “Sending Messages to Planets,” New York Times, July 11, 1937, II, p. 1; Detroit News, July 11, 1937.
3. Ibid, New York Sun.
4.Science News, April 30, 1977, Vol. III.
5. New York Herald Tribune, July 11, 1937; New York Times, July 11, 1937, II, p. 1.
6. William L. Laurence, New York Times, September 22, 1940, II, p. 7.
CHAPTER 28. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
1. Peter II, King of Yugoslavia, A King’s Heritage (New York, Putnam, 1954). See also, The Balkans, Life World Library (New York, Time, Inc., 1964). Yugoslavia, Background Notes, Department of State Publication 7773, Rev. February 1978, U.S. Government Printing Office. M. Djilas, Memoir of a Revolutionary (New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973).
2. New York Times, January 9, 1945, May 1, 1945, June 7, 1947.
3. Letter, Prof. Bogdan Raditsa to author, February 19, 1979.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Peter II, A King’s Heritage.
7. Ibid.
8. Letter, Professor Raditsa to author.
9. Letters, Charles Hausler to Leland I. Anderson, April 12, July 16, 1979.
10. Report of Death, Office of Medical Examiner of the City of New York, January 8, 1943. See also, New York Times, January 8, 1943, p. 19; New York Herald Tribune, January 8, 1943, p. 18; New York Telegram, January 8, 1943, p. 36; New York World, January 8, 1943, p. 36; New York Sun, January 8, 1943; New York Journal American, January 8, 1943; New York Times, editorial, January 8, 1943, p. 12.
11. New York Herald Tribune, January 11, 1943.
12. Ibid.
CHAPTER 29. THE MISSING PAPERS
1. Formal agreement of International Electrotechnical Commission, Munich, June 29, July 7, 1956. See also Swezey, “Nikola Tesla.”
2. FBI memorandum, New York Agent Foxworth to director, New York Bureau FBI, January 9, 1943.
3. FBI Memorandum, D. M. Ladd to E. A. Tamm, Washington, January 11, 1943.
4. Handwritten notation, Edward A. Tamm to D. M. Ladd, on memo of January 11, 1943.
5. Letter, Headquarters, Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, to author, July 30, 1980.
CHAPTER 30. THE LEGACY
1. Lambert von Ing. Binder, “Portrat eines Technomagiers, Mensch und Schicksal (Mankind and Destiny), January 15, 1952, Wien, Austria, pp. 3–5.
2. Robert Golka, “Project Tesla,” Radio-Electronics, February 1981. See also, Charles Hillinger, “Lightning as Ne
w Energy Source, Los Angeles Times, April 29, 1979; San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner, May 20, 1979; R. K. Golka and R. W. Bass, “Tesla’s Ball Lightning Theory,” presented at Annual Controlled Fusion Theory Conference, May 4–6, 1977, San Diego, California; Reed Blake, “The Wizard of Wendover,” Mountain West, November 1977, pp. 26–29.
3. P. L. Kapitza, “High Power Electronics,” Russian periodical, Uspekhi Fizicheskikh. Nauk, Vol. 78 (November 2, 1962), pp. 181–265; Life magazine, June 16, 1961. See also, Jerzy R. Konieczny, “New Weapon ‘X’—Ball Shaped Thunders (Globular Fireballs),” Polish periodical, Wojskowy Przeglad Lotniczy, November 2, 1963, pp. 72–75.
4. New York Times, October 10, 1975, p. 40 L. See also, Peter E. Glaser, “Solar Power from Satellites,” Physics Today, February 1977, p. 30–37.
5. “Tesla Coil Almost Ready,” St. Cloud (Minnesota) Daily Times, August 19, 1977, pp. 1, 19, 20. See also, R. J. Schadewald, “Power Could Be Dirt Cheap,” Minneapolis Star, June 6, 1978; Yvonne Baskin, “Power from Earth,” San Diego Union, July 23, 1980, pp. A-1, A-12.
6. Letter, James R. Wait to author, November 14, 1979.
7. James R. Wait, IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 16, No. 8 (August 1979), Book Reviews, p. 72.
8. Nikola Tesla, “Breaking Up Tomadoes,” Everyday Science and Mechanics, December 1933, pp. 870–922. See also, Nikola Tesla, Minutes of Edison Medal Meeting, AIEE, May 26, 1917, Smithsonian Institution, p. 29.
9. Frederic Jueneman, “Innovative Notebook,” Industrial Research, February 1974.
10. Letter, Lambert Dolphin to author, September 15, 1980.
11. Ibid.
POSTSCRIPT:
END OF A PAPER CHASE
Since the foregoing chapters were written and the proofs read and corrected, the disposition of Tesla’s “missing” scientific papers, originally held by the Office of Alien Property, has become known to me.
I have learned that a substantial classified Tesla file is contained in the third of three libraries at a well-known defense research agency. One library is open to the public, the second is semi-restricted, and the third contains material seen only by members of the intelligence community. Tesla’s ideas contained in the research papers so urgently requisitioned by military intelligence in 1947 have indeed continued to be of great interest.
When the Tesla Museum in Belgrade published The Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900, in 1978, intelligence officers at the said U.S. defense research agency at once made a careful comparison of both the Serbo-Croat and English editions against their classified files for that period in Tesla’s life. What they found, I am reliably told, is that the Slavs had omitted mainly practical Teslian ideas that might prove patentable. His fundamental research in wave propagation, radio and power transmission, and ball lighting, however, was found to be substantially the same in the Notes as in the U.S. intelligence file.
But the file apparently contains much more than the Notes. It almost certainly contains the complete papers from which the Trump abstract, portions of which were quoted earlier, was derived. It undoubtedly contains the papers that the two young American engineers pored over night after night in a hotel room in the weeks just before Tesla’s death. It probably contains the work papers which John J. O’Neill said were removed from his home by federal agents and which he was subsequently unable to trace.
What else may be in that intriguing file, I do not know. Nor do I withhold the name of the research agency possessing it merely to tantalize the reader; my only reason for doing so is that the U.S. government has deemed the material important to national security and has been at great pains to conceal its existence.
Today applications of scientific knowledge are being made at a dizzying rate. Shall we meet Nikola Tesla once again when we are farther down the road? I am sure of it.
INDEX
Abafi (book), 30
AC, see Alternating current Acupuncture, 125
Adamić, Louis, 325–26
Adams, Edward Dean, 68, 130, 132, 144, 171
Aerospace “Harrier,” 252
Air conditioning, 253
Air Technical Service Command, 338–40
Aircraft
automated, 167
small motor for, 272
Tesla’s design for, 247–48, 250–53
Wright’s, 249–50
Aircraft industry, Tesla’s prediction of, 120
Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron
Company, 254
Albert, Prince (later King of the Belgians), 157, 238
Alexander I (King of Yugoslavia), 242–43, 303
Alexanderson. E. F. W., 16, 226, 326
Alley, Dickenson V. (photographer), 194
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 247
Alsace, 46–47
Alternating current (AC), 40, 44–47, 53, 54, 59, 60–74, 87, 308
at Columbian Exposition, 98, 99–101, 103
“war” between DC and, 61–75, 78, 100, 119, 120
Westinghouse buys Tesla’s patents for, 63, 66
Westinghouse wants system of converting of, to DC, 156
Westinghouse’s original system of, 45, 61
Alternators, 87–88, 226, 241
Aluminum Company of America, 120
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 240
American & British Manufacturing Company, 273
American Electrician (periodical) 139
American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), 75, 120, 293, 329
Edison Medal of, 266–72, 281, 332, 334
Elliott-Cresson Medal of, 120
Tesla’s lectures to, 44, 62, 77, 85n
American Smelting and Refining Company, 305–06
Ames, Joseph S., 233
AND circuits, 169
Anderson, Leland, 13–17, 168–69, 221, 222, 227, 228, 351–52
Antaeus, 80
Anthony, Susan B., 143
Anthony, William A., 62, 69
Arago, François, 66, 189
Arbus, Muriel, 15, 110, 232, 234, 281
Arc lights, 162
Tesla’s, 59
Archimedes, 45
Arco, Count von, 294
Aristotle, 189
Armstrong, Edwin H., 86, 97, 227–28, 326
Army Air Force, U.S., 338–41, 352
Arthritis, 102
Astor, John Jacob, 111, 160, 170, 171–72, 178, 197
Atlantic Communication Company, 225, 227, 242
Atom-smasher, see Cyclotron Atomic energy, Tesla on, 261–62, 296, 310–11
Audion, 77, 122, 222
Aura, human, 125–26
Aurora borealis, 82
Austrian Polytechnic School, 39
Automation, see Robots Automobile speedometer, 239, 272
Bacon, Sir Francis, 279
Baily, Walter, 66
Ball lighting, 189–90, 195, 343–46, 346n
See also Lighting
Balloons for Colorado Springs experiments, 178
Bardeen, John, 169
Barker (professor), 206
Barron, Clarence W., 70
Barton, W. H., 326
Baruch, Bernard, 107
Bass, Robert W., 344
Batchelor, Charles, 47–48, 52, 53, 68
Baumgartner, Walter, 248
Bayles, Thomas R., 217
Bazelon, David L., 340
Beans, see Death rays
Beckhard, Arthur, biography by, 14
Becquerel, Henri, 82, 85
Behrend, B. A., 62, 121, 266, 267–70, 294
Belgium, Tesla turbine in, 238
Belgrade (Yugoslavia), 316
Tesla in, 94
Tesla Museum and Institute in, 13, 253, 278, 295, 308, 319, 330, 332, 342
Beneš, Edvard, 312, 315
Benson, Allan L., 151
Bernhardt, Sarah, 50, 87
Bersin, Richard L., 345n
Billiards, 40, 46
Blindness, X rays as supposed cure for, 135
Boats, remote-controlled, 160–62, 166
–69, 203, 208, 217, 227, 240
Bohr, Niels, 189
Boldt, George C., 218
“Boodle,” 71
Boundary layer propagation of waves, 348–49
Bradley, Charles S., 66
Bragg, W. L., 245
Bragg, Sir William Henry, 17, 245, 262, 294
Brant Rock (Mass.), 226
Brattain, Walter H., 169
Braun, Carl F., 219, 221
Breit, Gregory, 85
Brentano, I. C. M., 17
Bridgeport (Conn.), Tesla laboratory in, 273
Brisbane, Arthur, 108
British Marconi Company, 197
British Postal Telegraph System, 131
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 193, 348
Brooklyn Dodgers, 56
Brooklyn Eagle, 212, 218
Broughton, H. P., 96
Broughton, William G., 96
Brown, A. K., 60, 63, 130
Brown, Harold P. “Professor,” 69, 78
Brown, William C., 347
Bryce, James, 158
Budapest (Hungary), 42
Budd, E. G., Manufacturing Company, 248
Buddhism, 143, 301
Buffalo, (N.Y.), 119, 145
Busch, Noel F., 134
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 320
Camphor, Tesla’s aversion to, 29
Canadian Power Commission, 290
Carbon-button lamp, 81–86
Carmen, James D., 59
Carnegie, Andrew, 160, 197–98
Carnegie Institution, 85
Cars, automated, 167
Cataract Construction Company, 68, 130
Century magazine, 143, 166, 194, 195, 196, 212, 224, 240n, 259
Cervera y Topete, Pascual, 163–64
Charged particle beams, 303, 305, 346, 352–53
See also Death Rays
Chester, Franklin, 108
Chicago
Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair;1893), 67, 79, 98–101, 119, 329
Museum of Science and Industry, 329
Tesla in (1917), 266, 272
Christofilos, N., 350
Churchill, Marguerite, 289
Churchill, Winston, 320, 321
Cisneros, Miss, 158
Clark, George, 333
Cleveland, Grover, 99
Tesla: Man Out of Time Page 40