FBI Finally Releases Nikola Tesla's Documents They Seized 73 Years Ago
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The FBI has just released all of the information about this seizure plus the entire document cache on Nikola Tesla. You can view the recently released FBI files here: https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla
Look here to see the Recently Added documents on the FBI website, and Nikola Tesla is among them: https://vault.fbi.gov/recently-added
The Free Thought Project has just published an article that announces the FBI has finally released the documents that it seized from Nikola Tesla in 1943. The FBI's actions regarding seizing Tesla's intellectual property after his death have long been a source of resentment, especially for those interested in his legacy and scientific contributions. It is true that the FBI seized his personal belongings, but it's not well known that these items were shipped to Belgrade in 1952 under mounting pressure from Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanović. In total, Tesla's belongings fit into 80 trunks that were shipped to Belgrade at that time. Those items are now found in The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade and it houses the largest collection of Tesla's personal belongings.
Part of the outrage concerning the FBI seizing Tesla's property upon his death was the fact that Tesla was a US citizen. So the fact that the Office of Alien Property was the division that carried out this order makes this seizure one that many viewed with suspicion. Also, it was perfect fodder for conspiracy theorists. What's not clear, though, is whether the FBI handed over absolutely everything to Tesla's nephew. Well, it looks like you can now wade through all the documents yourself now to find the missing puzzle pieces.
Source: YouTube video
One of the most notable documents contained in the FBI seizure is that which pertains to Tesla's death ray invention. Some called it the peace ray.
The death ray used these four methods in theory:
An apparatus for producing manifestations of energy in free air instead of in a high vacuum as in the past.
A mechanism for generating tremendous electrical force.
A means of intensifying and amplifying the force developed by the second mechanism.
A new method for producing a tremendous electrical repelling force. This would be the projector, or gun, of the invention -wikipedia
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News of Tesla's death ray first appeared in the New York Times in 1934 and here's an excerpt:
The headline on the front page of "The New York Times" read, "TESLA, AT 78, BARES NEW 'DEATH BEAM.'" The article reported that the new invention "will send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles..." Tesla stated that the death beam would make war impossible by offering every country an "invisible Chinese wall." -Source: http://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/timeline/1934-tesla-moves-hotel-new-yorker
About Tesla's Death
Tesla was found dead on January 8, 1943 by his maid. He was found in his room, #3327, at the Hotel New Yorker in NYC at the time of his death. The medical examiner who did the autopsy concluded that Tesla had died of coronary thrombosis. On January 9th, after the FBI learned of his death, they ordered the US Office of Alien Property to seize all of Tesla's belongings from his hotel room and other places in New York City. These items were then transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under OAP seal.
Many people are only vaguely aware of Tesla's inventions and scientific discoveries. We learn that because the FBI considered him a threat, information about him in mainstream USA was suppressed. This is evidenced by the school system leaving him out of its history books. There are other reasons he has been omitted, too. Is it naive of me to think that now, after the FBI has released its Tesla files to the public, the school system will add him into its history books?
Well, first the teachers will need to be educated. It's hard to teach a subject of which you know nothing about.
And a quote from Tesla to end with:
The memories of my youth and even of earliest childhood are very vivid, and it seems to me that my character began to develop a little sooner than is the case with most people. As a very small boy I was weak and vacillating, and made many childish resolves, only to break them. But when I was eight years old I read “The Son of Aba,” a Serbian translation of a Hungarian writer, Josika, whose lessons are similar to those of Lew Wallace in Ben Hur. This book awakened my will power. I began to practice self-control, subdued many of my wishes, and resolved to keep every promise I ever made, whether to myself or to anyone else. The members of my family were not long in learning that if I promised a thing I would do it. -Tesla Universe
Anyone not wanting to go via FBI for these files can get them here :)
https://gofile.io/?c=jMnBPm
I have not analysed the PDF files, only ever open them sandboxed.
oh thanks.
No worries :)
ha ha!
Very good one hahahaha
This is wicked, it is about time. Thanks a bunch for sharing this precious link and some of its knowledge. Namaste :)
Tesla was crazy. But he was good at what he did.
We know now that some of his dream inventions like free energy and death rays and what not won't work. We know because we can build them.
But the man was still a visionary and an unsung hero of the modern age.
Great work stellabelle!
It's very tricky researching Tesla because the information comes from all different kinds of sources, some good, some not good. This is the case with suppressed information. Even the websites are many times looking sketchy. Tesla Universe is a very good source, maybe one of the best. It has chronological order too......I think many people don't know that Tesla's nephew was given Tesla's property that the FBI seized. That's not a headline that grabs people's attention.....
I didn't really read the document but I did read a few pages of the third and in some of them it's claiming that they aren't ordered chronologically, probably only on these specifical pages.
Oh, I was talking about the Tesla Universe website....
I don't know what you're talking about - Tesla was in my school books. Since I was about 13, I knew him as the guy who battled Edison and ultimately had one really excellent idea: Alternating current. This idea changed the world.
I also distinctly remember a picture of him in a high school physics book, standing inside one of his lightning cages.
It's fun to imagine him a suppressed genius, but my opinion (as an electrical engineer) is that he was probably just a kooky guy who took the money he made off his single good idea and spent the rest of his life tinkering with wild ideas. Of course, I'm open to being proved wrong - but I'm not holding my breath.
Who needs schoolbooks when you have this:
At my school there was no mention of him. And I did a bit of research, and it appears that the majority of schools don't mention him. Maybe it's changing though...what year did you go to high school and was it in the USA?
Interesting. Yeah, it was in the USA, I graduated in 2002.
ah, you are a pup! I'm old enough to be your mom........
Omg @stellabelle check out Ned's pic on trending and Tesla's pic you made. I just noticed they look almost the same. Check it out and let me know what you think!
yes, and did you see my latest meme? I tried to edit my post, and it won't let me, i was going to add your name in it....
Lol that's awesome.
Speaking of tesla, I'm getting an MRI this week to demonstrate how the technology actually works.
We're going to call it "Inside the mind of William Banks" and post it here.
steemit.com/@imaxess
Would love to have you make an "open skull" type photoshop thing for the intro pic!
we need more geniuses like Nikola Tesla
I assume I'm not the only one who thinks Tesla was done away with. The reasoning is simple, Rise of combustion energy and petrodollar.
Well, Tesla had a poor diet especially in his later years, with him drinking milk as his main food source, so it's very likely he died of natural causes at 86...he was extremely thin and frail...
He died in his mid 80's... which is 20+ years over the average life expectancy at the time.. At the end he was a crazy old man that hunted for Ghosts (I doubt many people knew that). Yes, its true. His last portion of life was partialy dedicated to the supernatural.
I doubt the Government cared that much about him during his last years.
Betty White
My father is in his 90's and I am sure there are a few ghosts he would like to chase as well...lol
do you have a proof for his crazyness ?
I personally don't but the internet has plenty of information regarding his experiments and designs that attempted to find "ghosts"
He was the original mastermind behind spiritual containment that ghostbusters ripped off. To be honest, his later part of life was probably the most interesting, even though he was Nuts.
Anyone who knows about tesla knows he was nuts
well, he was OCD. He had to walk around his building a set amount of times after he ate dinner. And he could only stay in hotel room numbers that were divisible by 3. In fact, he had everything divisible by three.....he also had to fold his napkins in certain ways or else he couldn't eat dinner.....
Superb article @stellabelle I love everything that is about Nikola Tesla ! I followed you for more !
Some months ago when I was writing for Interesting Engineering, I was literally obsessed with learning as much as possible about Tesla. He's still an inspiration for anyone who is seeking knowledge.
It is pretty funny that this articles says he belongings were seized by the US office of Alien Property ; i myself for years have maintained Einstein and Tesla were in fact ALIENS ! ! ! ; )
Quite perceptive anyone from outside the country is in fact alien. Neither were natural born citizens.
Yes must be one of the greatest minds ever no?? I mean he totally revolutionized the 20th century and well thinking on it more, this one too !! This guy was a God Particle on two legs, the Mozart of electricity !!
Tesla was a genius, my favorite scientist of all time!