Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 134

3 (5) (6)(1) involvement in the seizing of Nikola Tesla's research papers and other documents and scientific instruments after his death on January 7, 1943. CI SE ET 1856 They both explained that Tesla was à scientific genius and experimenter, who was born in Yugoslavia of Serbian parents on 7/10/56, went to school later in Gratz, Austria. Prague, Czechoslovakia and Paris, France. He immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1880's, worked for Thomas Edison's laborator for a couple of years, then started his own lab after being paid $1 million dollars for rights to his patents on his polyphase systems of alternating current dynamos, which lead to the harnessing of Niagra Falls for producing electricity and then the power system of the whole country. He was naturalize in 1889. He predicted wireless communication (radio). His later experiments in Colorado and elsewhere led to his producing artificial lightning in the millions of volts. He also had patents on the concept of neon and flourescent lights, but he later made little money on his later inventions, although he continued to do experiments leading to devices of great potential worth, which he never patented. He became more reclusive in his later years, living in various hotels in New York City. In the 1930's he claimed he had developed the concept and method of building a "death ray", which could destroy planes at many miles distant, for defending America. Also, there are report of resonance machines or devices whereby he could shake one or many large city buildings from some distance away. and ... Both aid that Tesla donated "some" of his papers (or copies thereof) to the Tesla Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; set up in the 1930'a in his honor by their government. Biographies on Tesla claim that either the custodian of Alien Property and/or the FBI seized his papers and other personal effects, including a safe or safes, and other property immediately after his death in 1943. This is elaborated on in the enclosed copies of certain pages of Margaret Cheney's book, Tesla: Man Out of Time". -2said that after World War II Tesla's papers were shipped to the Tesla Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who had become Tito Ambassador to the U.S. There were reports that some microfilming of Tesla's papers by government agents while they were still in storage in New York under Kosanovic's custody. SE ET 3134