Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (80 page)

34. Jeffery Hayes,
Boundary-Layer Breakthrough
(Security, Colo.: High Energy Enterprise, 1990).

35. Interview with L. Anderson, July 29, 1988, Colorado Springs, Colo., as told to him and Inez Hunt. Also see James Caufield, “Radioed Light, Heat and Power Perfected by Tesla,”
Harrisburg Telegraph,
March 22, 1924, Radio Sec., pp. 1-2: “The war was upon him and the gov’t requested that [Wardenclyffe] come down. After the war Prof. Tesla again started to prove his theory, but this time he chose Colorado Springs as the location of his laboratory. It was while at the ‘Springs’ that he first demonstrated power transmission without the aid of wires.”

1. Tesla quote as told to John O’Neill and Bill Lawrence, O’Neill, pp. 316-17.

2. D. Wallechensky, November 1928, quoted in C. Cerf and V. Navasky,
The Experts Speak
(New York: Pantheon, 1984), p. 259.

3. NT to Hugo Gernsback, November 30, 1921 [KSP].

4. NT. “Views on Thought Transference,”
Electrical Experimenter,
May 1911, p. 12.

5. Nikola Tesla v. George C. Bold Jr. Suffolk County Supreme Court, April 1921 [LA].

6. KJ to NT, April 24, 1920 [NTM].

7. Introduction compiled mostly from C. Daniel, ed.,
Chronicle of the 20th Century
(Mt. Kisco, N.Y.: Chronicle, 1987); W. Langer, ed.,
New Illustrated Encyclopedia of World History
(New York: Harry Abrams, 1975).

8. RUJ to NT, October 15, 1925 [LC].

9. W. Jolly, pp. 258-60.

10. Nancy Rubin, p. 25.

11. Dragislav Petkovich, “A Visit to Nikola Tesla,”
Politika,
April 27, 1927, p. 6.

12. Adrian Potter, FBI report on Friends of Soviet Russia, 1921-1923 [FOIA].

13. George Seldes,
Witness to a Century
(New York: Ballantine, 1987), pp. 181-83.

14. Ronald Kline, “Professionalism and the Corporate Engineer: Charles P. Steinmetz,”
IEEE Transactions,
August 1980, pp. 144-50.

15. L. Fischer,
The Life of Lenin
(New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 630.

16. There is a famous photo taken on April 3, 1921, during a trans-Atlantic wireless broadcast for RCA, GE, and AT&T. In a number of sources (M. Cheney,
Tesla: Man Out of Time
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981); M. Seifer, “The Inventor and the Corporation: Tesla, Armstrong & Jobs,”
1986 Tesla Symposium Proceedings;
R. G. Williams,
Introducing Nikola Tesla Through Some of His Achievements
(Mokelumne Hill, Calif.: Health Research, 1970) it has been suggested that the man standing between Albert Einstein and Charles Steinmetz was Nikola Tesla. Other people in the photo include Irving Langmuir and David Sarnoff. After reviewing the original caption and conferring with Tesla expert Leland Anderson, it has been ascertained that the man is not Tesla at all, but rather John Carson of AT&T. Coincidentally, this photo has been used by the GE public relations people on numerous occasions with all people but Einstein and Steinmetz airbrushed out. See
Life Magazine,
1965 and B. Gorowitz, ed.,
The Steinmetz Era: 1892-1923: The GE Story
(Schenectady, N.Y.: Schenectady Elfun Society, 1977), p. 39.

17. [KSP].

18. “Judgment [of $3,299] Filed Against Tesla by St. Regis,”
New York Times,
May 25, 1924, 14:1.

19. “At Night and in Secret Nikola Tesla Lavishes Money and Love on Pigeons,”
New York World,
Metropolitan Sec., November 21, 1926, 1:2-5.

20. M. Cheney, p. 84. Original source, Kenneth Swezey.

21. A. Nenadovic, “100 Years Since the Birth of Nikola Tesla,”
Politika,
July 8, 1956 [KSP].

22. K. Swezey, “How Tesla Evolved Epoch-Making Discoveries,”
Brooklyn Eagle,
April 4, 1926, pp. 8-9.

23. A. Nenadovic, July 8, 1956.

24. John B. Kennedy, “When Woman Is Boss,”
Collier’s,
January 30, 1926, pp. 17, 34.

25. Anne Morgan to NT, April 26, 1928 [NTM].

26. “At Night and in Secret Nikola Tesla Lavishes Money and Love on Pigeons,”
New York World,
Metropolitan sec., November 21, 1926, p. 1. Other sick birds that he could not care for, Tesla took to animal hospitals.

27. C. Hedetniemi to OAP, January 29, 1943 [FOIA].

28. “Dr. Tesla Picks Tunney,”
New York Herald Tribune,
September 27, 1927, 2:3.

29. Ginzelda Hull Hobson to K. Swezey, February 14, 1956 [KSP].

30. Petkovich, p. 4.

31. According to L. Anderson, Swezey said that the O’Neill stories of Tesla wiping his plates at the dinner table were untrue, the proof beign the pigeon link. “Meticulous,” Tesla was clearly obsessed with avoiding contaminated water, phobic and fearful of germs, and so it seems likely to this researcher that he did, indeed, clean off his silverware and plates with napkins at eating establishments. Caring for pigeons, even in one’s apartment (probably in a separate room where he kept a lab), is quite different than eating from unclean dishes.

32. NT to JPM Jr., November 21, 1924 [LC].

1. NT, 1960; translated from German by Edwin Gora.

2. NT to Flowers, 1917-1925 [NTM].

3. John B. Flowers, “Nikola Tesla’s Wireless Power System and Its Application to the Propulsion of Airplanes,” August 8, 1925 [Archives, Toby Grotz, Colorado Springs, Colo].

4. NT, “World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy,”
Telegraph & Telephone Age,
October 16, 1927, pp. 457-60; in
Nikola Tesla,
1981, pp. 83-86.

5. “In a solar eclipse the moon comes between the sun and the earth…At a given moment, the shadow will just touch at a mathematical point, the earth, assuming it to be a sphere…Owing to the enormous radius of the earth, [it] is nearly a plane. [Thus,] that point where the shadow falls will immediately, on the slightest motion of the shadow downward, enlarge the circle at a terrific rate, and it can be shown mathematically that this rate is infinite” (NT,
On His Work with AC,
pp. 137-39).

6. NT to Mrs. A. Trbojevic, November 20, 1928 [Wm. Terbo archives]; NT to Nikola Trbojevich, September 13, 1928, October 3, 1928; January 28, 1929; May 29, 1929, in
Correspondence with Relatives,
pp. 128, 135.

7. W. Terbo, Opening remarks, in S. Elswick, ed.,
Proceedings of the 1988 Tesla Symposium,
Colorado Springs, Colo., 1988, pp. 8-11.

8. Myron Taylor, memorandum, September 28, 1931 [Archives, US Steel, USX Corp., Pittsburgh, PA]; Sava Kosanovic, August 30, 1952 [KSP].

9. Derek Ahlers, interview with Peter Savo, September 16, 1967 [Archives, Ralph Bergstresser].

10. “Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles, Tesla’s Claim on 78th Birthday,”
New York Herald
Tribune,
July 11, 1934, 1:15; in
Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets,
pp. 100-12.

11. Ronald Clark,
Einstein: The Life & Times
(New York: World Publishing—Times/Mirror, 1971).

12. Fritzof Capra,
The Tao of Physics
(Colo.: Shambhala, 1975), pp. 64, 208.

13. NT, New York paper on various theories, circa 1936 [KSP].

14. “Tesla Coil Used in Atom Splitting Machines,”
N.Y. American,
November 3, 1929; O’Neill to NT, August 1, 1935 [NTM].

15. NT, “Tesla ‘Harnesses’ Cosmic Energy,”
Philadelphia Public Ledger,
November 2, 1933; in
Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets,
pp. 104-5.

16. “Tesla at 75,”
Time,
July 20, 1931, pp. 27-28.

17. [KSP].

18. “Tesla, 79, Promises to Transmit Force,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1935, 23:8.

19. “Sending Messages to Planets Predicted by Dr. Tesla on Birthday,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1937, 13:2; in NT,
Solutions…
, pp. 132-34.

20. Nancy Czito, private corresp., Washington, D.C., 1983.

21. Patent numbers 685,957; 685,958, in NT,
Lectures, Patents, Articles,
1956, pp. P-343-51.Robert Millikan coined the term “cosmic rays” in the mid-1920s. Tesla originally referred to the rays as a form of radiant energy. Dr. James Corum suggested that even if the rays did not travel faster than lightspeed, these statements by Tesla must have been based upon some real effect that had occurred (interview, 1992, Colorado Springs).

22. NT, “Dr. Tesla Writes of Various Phases of His Discovery,”
New York Times,
February 6, 1932, 16:2; in
Tesla Said,
p. 237.

23. John O’Neill, “Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor,”
Brooklyn Eagle,
July 10, 1932, in NT,
Solutions…,
pp. 95-96.This may be the description of a solar energy machine.

24. Carol Bird, “Tremendous New Power Soon to Be Unleashed,”
Kansas City Journal-Post,
September 10, 1933; in
Solutions…,
pp. 101-2.

25. NT, “Tesla, 79, Promises…,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1935, 23:8.

26. NT, “Expanding Sun Will Explode Some Day Tesla Predicts,”
New York Herald Tribune,
August 18, 1935; in NT,
Solutions…,
pp. 130-32.

27. Joseph Alsop, “Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles, Tesla’s Claim,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1934, pp. 1, 15; in
Solutions,
pp. 110-12; Walter Russell,
The Russell Cosmology: A New Concept of Light, Matter and Energy
(Waynesboro, Va.: The W. R. Foundation, 1953).

28. NT, “Expanding Sun,” August 18, 1935.

29. NT, “Tesla, 79, Promises,” July 11, 1935.

30. “Tesla at 78 Bares New ‘Death-Beam’,”
New York Times,
July 11, 1934, 18:1, 2.

31. H. Grindell-Mathews, “The Death Power of Diabolical Rays,”
New York Times,
May 21, 1924, 1:2; 3:4, 5.

32. H. Grindell-Mathews, “Diabolical Rays,”
Popular Radio,
August 8, 1924, pp. 149-54.

33. H. Gernsback, “The Diabolic Ray,”
Practical Electrics,
August 1924, pp. 554-55, 601.

34. H. Grindell-Mathews, “Three Nations Seek Diabolical Ray,”
New York Times,
May 28, 1924, 25:1,2.

35. Helen Welshimer, “Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft in War,”
Everyday Week Magazine,
October 21, 1934, p. 3; in NT,
Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets,
pp. 116-18.

36. L. Anderson,
NT’s Residences, Labs & Offices
(Denver, Colo.: 1990). (Original source, a Dr. Watson of New York.)

37. Titus deBobula, Tesla tower blueprints, circa 1934 [NTM]; FBI archives [FOIA].

1. Hugo Gernsback, “NT and His Inventions,”
Electrical Experimenter,
January 1919, p. 614.

2. NT to GS, July 11, 1935 [LC].

3. Branning, 1981, p. A-3.

4. NT to Carl Laemmle, July 15, 1937, Profiles in History Archives, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Neal Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
(New York: Anchor Books, 1988), pp. 58, 205-6.

5. Mark Siegel,
Hugo Gernsback: Father of Modern Science Fiction
(San Bernardino, Calif.: The Borgo Press, 1988).

6. Lawrence Lessing,
Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong
(New York: Lippincott, 1956).

7. “Tesla Is Provider of Pigeon Relief” [KSP].

8. Leland Anderson, “Nikola Tesla’s Patron Saint,”
American Srbobran,
August 14, 1991, p. 4; L. Anderson,
NT’s Residences, Labs and Offices,
1990.

9. OAP files [FOIA].

10. NT to GW Co. circa Jan-July, 1930, written from the Hotel Pennsylvania [KSP]; $2,000 debt, OAP files [FOIA].

11. O’Neill, p. 274.

12. Hugo Gernsback, Westinghouse recollections [KSP].

13. NT to GW Co., January 29, 1930; February 1, 1930; February 14, 1930; February 17, 1930; February 18, 1930; April 18, 1930 [LC].

14. A. W. Robertson,
About George Westinghouse and the Polyphase Electric Current
(New York: Newcomen Society, 1939), p. 28.

15. “Nikola Tesla,”
Scientific Progress,
September 1934.

16. TdB to NT, November 1897; December 10, 1897 [NTM].

17. Ibid., July 26, 1901.

18. FBI deBobula files [FOIA].

19. TdB to NT, May 29, 1911; NT to TdB, May 31, 1911 [NTM].

20. Telephone interview with Robert Hessen, author of
The Steel Titan: The Life Story of Charles Schwab
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1975)—teaching at Stanford University; “Schwab Answers Suit of deBobula,”
New York Times,
August 7, 1919, 15:6.

21. TdB to NT, July 11, 1935 [NTM].

22. NT to GS, June 17, 1937 [LC].

23. TdB to NT, November 25, 1935; July 6, 1936 [NTM].

24. deBobula FBI files, circa 1936-1949 [FOIA].

25. FBI deBobula files [FOIA]; “Tauscher Accuses Munitions Partner,”
New York Times,
July 25, 1934, 36:4.

26. OAP NT files [FOIA].

27. Hugo Gernsback, Westinghouse recollections [KSP].

28. GW Co. to NT, January 2, 1934 [LC].

29. Mildred McDonald, December 1, 1952 [GWA].

1. Elmer Gertz,
Odyssey of a Barbarian: The Biography of G. S. Viereck
(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1978).

2. M. Pupin to K. Swezey, May 29, 1931 [KSP].

3. D. Dunlap,
Radio’s 100 Men of Science
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), p. 124.

4. M. Pupin,
From Immigrant to Inventor
(New York: Scribners, 1930). Tesla is mentioned once on p. 285 within the phrase, “Tesla’s AC motor and Bradley’s rotary transformer…” (see chapter 10).

5. “Dr. Pupin Inspired,”
New York Times,
1927 [KSP].

6. Stanko Stoilkovic, “Portrait of a Person, a Creator and a Friend,”
The Tesla Journal,
nos 4, 5, 1986/87, pp. 26-29.

7. NT to RUJ, circa 1929-1937 [LC]; Grizelda Hull Hobson to K. Swezey, February 14, 1955; Richmond P. Hobson Jr., in “Books of the Times,”
New York Times,
Decemer 21, 1955 [KSP].

8. A brief excerpt from “The Haunted House” by G. S. Viereck, circa 1907, from Gertz, 1978.

9. Niel Johnson,
G. S. Viereck: German/American Propagandist
(Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972), p. 143.