Mark Megahan
The mystery of Nikola Tesla’s hijacked research papers has been raging since his death on January 7, 1943. He was 86 at the time. The following day, his nephew discovered technical files and “a black notebook containing notes on some kind of government work” had vanished. Half the world is still looking for them.
Tesla’s missing papers
Most of Nikola Tesla’s papers have been recovered and accounted for but not all of them. At the time of his demise, the Serbian-American inventor was working on a way to beam power with focused precision – hundreds of miles away.
Because it could take out an enemy bomber just as easily as powering a city without all those messy high-tension transmission wires, the Pentagon was drooling over it.
The experts are all convinced that Tesla was still dreaming but aren’t real sure how close to the big breakthrough he might have been. The missing papers could mean a whole lot to the right engineer.
Since we don’t have death ray weapons today, America never found the guy to figure it out. They don’t want the Chinese getting to take a crack at it, so those records are expected to stay buried deep.
If anyone could come up with a way to beam power around it would be Tesla. He’s the one who designed the whole electrical grid we’re using today.
He set up the first hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls to fire it up. The things he could do with a Tesla coil would make your hair stand on end. Those missing papers are worth their weight in plutonium.
Records released in 2016
The FBI finally released redacted files regarding Tesla in 2016. The world learned then that the day after his uncle’s death in 1943, Sava Kosanović raided Tesla’s safe looking for his will. He took out a book and three photos, that’s all, he swears.
After that, all the papers and Tesla’s other belongings became the property of the Office of Alien Property Custodian. That was illegal because Tesla had been naturalized but they grabbed his stash anyway. They used the excuse of national security.
Mostly, they didn’t trust Tesla’s nephew. He happened to serve as the Yugoslavian ambassador to the U.S. The FBI was paranoid he might turn over “such coveted information” to the Russians. They hauled off two truckloads of Tesla’s belongings.
Part of that haul were the papers on his “teleforce” beam which he described as something which would “operate through a beam one-hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in diameter, and could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than $2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct.” We still don’t have one and neither do the Russians. The Chinese might be coming close.
Another dream of Tesla which his papers suggested was close to coming true was his plan to “collect and harness what he called ‘cosmic energy‘ that he theorized existed in the atmosphere.” Virtually free power would really be bad for oil company profits.
Just like the light bulb invented by Tesla’s arch-rival Edison, which never burns out, (just pump em full of Nitrogen) everyone who studies Tesla thinks he “succeeded in creating a way to generate this free, unlimited energy, but that the government suppressed the information as it would have upended the industry and revolutionized society.” It’s in a box next to the stuff they raided from the crashed alien spaceship.
