Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 181

Ĉ Exhibit An agreement dated April 20, 1935, between Nikola Tesla and the atorg Trading Corporation, in which Teala agreed to supply plans, specifications, and complete information on a method and apparatus for producing high voltages up to fifty million molts, for producing very small particles in a tube open to air, or increasing the charge of the particles to the full voltage of the high potential terminal, and for projecting the particles to distances of a hundred miles or more. The maximum speed of the particles was specified as not less than 350 miles per second. The receipt of $25,000 fee for this disclosure was acknowledged in this agreement, which was signed by Nikola Tesls and by AXBartanian of the Antorg Trading Corporation. The method referred to in this agreement is apparently that described in Exhibit F, above. It is probable that Exhibit D, above, is an effort by Tesla to clear up the questions raised by Soviet engineers after the subject disclosure had been made. There is no evidence that the inventions and information referred to in this agreement are other than those described in a number of Tesla's papers and published articles. It should therefore be expected, and it is substantiated by Exhibit D, that this disclosure subsequently proved unworkable. 3. in examination of several items of scientific apparatus among the Tesla efforts at the Manhattan Tarehouse and in a deposit box at the Governor Clinton Hotel showed those to be standard electrical measuring instruments in common use several decades ago. JOT/G Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass., Jammary 30, 1943. 000012 JOHN G. TRUMP, Technical Aide, Division 14, MIRC. 181