Nikola Tesla People
Relatives, friends and associates of Nikola Tesla
George Scherff
Mr. Scherff was Nikola Tesla's most trusted and longest working employee. Scherff was instrumental in helping Tesla keep his affairs in order, especially during the Colorado Springs experiments.
Letters
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 4:24 PM
Date (?) The trouble in the new break is that the oil in the base does not stand sufficiently below the highest point the mercury can rise in the hollow shaft. It would be desirable to make an...
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 4:23 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 12, 1899 My dear Mr. Scherff, I shall soon return to the city - with glorious results, but financially - well, let us not speak of it. I hope that I shall find everything in...
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 2:46 PM
Colorado Springs, Nov. 7, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, Inclosed check for bills forwarded $225 on account. Please pay from this to Mr. Czito's wife $50. He will pay my loan off $5 every week beginning from...
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 2:43 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 29, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, With express I have forwarded to-day 4 sets of photographs for my friends. Please look them over and send the first, the white ones to Mr. Hennesey...
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 2:41 PM
10-24-1899 Please forward checkbook- Rec. Oct. 27, 1899, $200.00 This is Tesla note. - Ed.
Letter added September 30, 2023 - 2:32 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 17, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, I am returning some stuff to the laboratory. Among the things is the small oscillator. I found there was a mistake in the condenser, the same being...
Letter added September 29, 2023 - 3:33 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 14, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, Please forward some writings of Prof. Dewar dealing with resistance of metals at low temperatures. You will find them somewhere as I have read them...
Letter added September 29, 2023 - 3:29 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 14, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, I have just received clockwork, but can not tell how it will do. It was an important point to break the current just on the place I indicated in my...
Letter added September 29, 2023 - 2:30 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 14, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, I have expressed to-day some photos illustrating a few of my experiments here. One of them, as you will see is for my friend Mrs. Ledenbury (?) on...
Letter added September 29, 2023 - 2:26 PM
Colorado Springs, Oct. 13, 1899 Dear Mr. Scherff, The inclosed checks for Mr. Unger. Please get me the little book on The Transmission de l'energie electrique sans fil. It is probably some rot, but I...