Posted on 11/30/2024 9:02:28 AM PST by EBH
Tesla died at the height of World War II. The FBI became quite concerned. Truckloads of Tesla’s papers and other property were impounded by the government, then meticulously inspected by John Trump. You mean that John Trump? I do.
Today in Fortnightly The May issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly was mailed to you yesterday! Jam-packed with 19 thought-provoking articles and columns from our industry's intellectual leaders.
Here's a fun morsel from page 72:
On January 7, 1943, Tesla died in his room at The New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan. He died at the height of World War II, with the Battle of Guadalcanal still raging.
The FBI became quite concerned. Agents based in New York notified FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and even Vice President Henry Wallace. Truckloads of Tesla's papers and other property were impounded by the government, then meticulously inspected by John Trump.
John Trump? You mean that John Trump? I do.
The MIT professor was The Donald's uncle. The loquacious presidential candidate has mentioned his uncle multiple times on the campaign trail.
The government chose John Trump to judge if any of Tesla's things were critical to national security. But, Trump had a longstanding grudge against Tesla.
Five years earlier, Trump built a van derGraaf generator at MIT. It was, as we might say now, huge. A veritable Trump Tower.
Tesla humiliated Trump, however, demonstrating two small coils could deliver the same energy and efficiency. We know Trump's nephew, The Donald, wouldn't have taken kindly to an insult like that.
In his last years, Tesla was working on a death ray, a particle beam weapon called Teleforce. It would have been devastating, it was feared, if plans for a workable death ray fell into enemy hands, and equally valuable if found by our government.
Conspiracy theories about what happened next continue to this day.
Some say Tesla's nephew Sava took the plans before the FBI got to The New Yorker Hotel. Some say that while Trump claimed he discovered nothing of importance to national security, the government sequestered Tesla's property and secretly resumed the research.
Why was Trump, an otherwise obscure civilian, sitting right next to General Eisenhower when Paris was liberated? Why did the top secret military departments, who supposedly reverse-engineered alien UFO technology at Rosewell, use Tesla's papers?
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly
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“Kind of makes you start to realize a few things...”
And we still don’t know the full recorded info about the assassination of JfK, and won’t for a few more years when important records are finally released.
There are many things about the war in Ukraine that will come to be known in the future. Apparently Putin is not even being kept up-to-date on the realities of the war he started. Deap States have been operating for a long time in history.
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Deep State...Fear....It's just not there.;...mere speculation.
Wow! I was an undergraduate at MIT during 4 years of the time when John Trump was a professor!
And I never knew anything about John Trump or the Trump family!
Thanks for posting this; that is pretty amazing stuff for having been written 130+ years ago.
shocking...
And the whole summary of all this is....so what...
Impossible. He’s too tall to fit in Dr Who’s telephone booth..
First nuclear bomb test was in 1943. Trump was born in 1946.
So what Trump said about his uncle passing him Nuclear bombs would be a nothing.
The first Nuclear Bomb Test occurred in the USA in 1943. President Trump was born in 1946. What's to tell??
Stupid article.
Elon Musk has zero to do with Nikola Tesla, other than using the name for his line of EVs.
From the article: “Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.”
Well, you kinda did.
Elon Musk has nothing to do with anything related to Nikolai Tesla except he runs a company named Tesla. He didn’t even name, or start, the company. This is just silly.
And the Donald gaining Nuke info from his uncle...The Donald was born in 1946. First Nuclear Bomb Test was in 1943. And the first USA Nuclear Power Plant was in 1951. Trump and understanding nuclear technology...chances....”0”.
Math can be so inconvenient, right?
I do maybe 50 math problems everyday...engineering related. I love it.
The TARDIS is taller on the inside.
Good to know
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