The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers Page 463

Details of the Trump Report. The following is a synopsis of the entire Trump report with brief discussions of individual findings where applicable.

Exhibit A: Tesla's article on the Van de Graff generator entitled "Electro-Static Generators" (Scientific American, March, 1934, pp. 132-133; 164-165). It is interesting to note that Tesla said that this kind of static electricity generator was highly inefficient. Trump probably looked at the original manuscript and he called it "an undated article probably written about 1934."

Exhibits B, E and K: These contained an article entitled "Reactive Forces of Glycerine and Dynamite," including calculations of their explosive power. Exhibit E also contained a discussion of how power could be transmitted along the earth's crust by resonant frequencies set up by an electromechanical device bolted to some rocky protuberance. The invention called telegeodynamics, which was unsuccessfully offered to the Westinghouse Company, was based upon his 1893 invention of the mechanical oscillator. Tesla had told O'Neill (1944) in the 1930's that by setting up vibrations in the earth, not only could power be transmitted, but ore deposits could be identified and submarines could be located (p. 164).

Exhibit C: A process of degassifying, refining and purifying metals. Cheney (1981) notes that Tesla actually sold the idea to the American Smelting and Refining Company in the early 1930's. Dr. A. J. Phillips, superintendent at the time, stated that $25,000 was invested in the project, although the results were unsatisfactory (pp. 248-249).

Exhibit G: A biographical article on Tesla.

Exhibit H: Attempts by Tesla on 8/25/1936; 10/26/1937; 12/15/1937; 4/5/1938 to sell his death ray to the British government so that they could protect themselves from aerial invasion and the rejection of the offer by England on 1/7/1938.

Exhibit I: Theories on gravity and Tesla's disbelief in the soundness of mid-1930's theories on atomic or nuclear energy.

Exhibit J: A handwritten discription of a laser-like apparatus.

Exhibit L: A 20-page treatise on the Tesla turbine.

Exhibit M: An article by Tesla on various ways to generate and derive energy from the earth via waterfalls, ocean tides, wind, sun, etc. Also, there was a criticism of atomic physics. This appears to be the article "Our Future Motive Power" published in Everyday Science and Mechanics, (12/1931, pp. 26-28, 78-81, 96, and discussed elsewhere in this paper. e.g., Chap. 37).