[Keflavik76]

Are these newly released docs on Tesla? When he died in Jan of 1943 the SIS and FBI scooped up all his papers. They release some of them about seven years later but there are supposed to be 20 trunks still missing.

The media at the time minimized Tesla as some wild eye inventor and even wrote that he didn't invent anything useful. Oh, he just invented a better way to transport electric power while Edison was pushing direct current. Tesla came up with AC power and designed the hydroelectric generators at Niagara falls. He also designed the AC induction motor that is now in every Tesla automobile that's on the road.

Using his Tesla coil he was able to supply wireless power to light bulbs. The big players back then didn't like it, because they could't figure out where to install the power meters. He also designed an aircraft that took off like a helicopter and flew like a airplane. He did this even before they invented helicopters. Yeah, you could say the Boeing V-22 Osprey is taken from his design.

He was smeared in the media and was completely minimized. The man should get his due.

[morphing libertarian]

In the basement of the hotel there was model of something Tesla had invented and when Navy Intelligence or the FBI came to grab his files they took the model also. Tesla was giving it to the hotel as a deposit against his bill.

Tesla told the Navy he could stop ships from invading the country by shutting down their power. the navy said, no thanks. He shopped lot around Europe and no buyers. That is believed to eb the reason Navy intelligence came to NY as soon as Tesla died.

[ichabod1]

I’ve seen video of him reading by the light of a bulb that he’s holding in his hand, it’s kind of creepy, but it’s impressive. The Tesla coil was a real thing.