SRC — Tesla
Folder: 05 - SOURCE MATERIAL Supporting: Nikola Tesla & Suppressed Science
Primary Documents
FBI Declassified Files on Nikola Tesla Released: September 21, 2016 (250 pages) + March 2018 (64 pages) Access: https://vault.fbi.gov — search “Nikola Tesla” Contains: Office of Alien Property seizure records · VP Henry Wallace memo on Tesla’s death ray · John G. Trump evaluation report
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. v. United States — 320 U.S. 1 (1943) US Supreme Court. Decided June 21, 1943. Full text: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/320/1/ Key finding: Marconi’s broad radio patent invalid. Tesla’s Patent #645,576 (filed 1897) anticipated it. Court did NOT declare Tesla sole inventor of radio.
Tesla’s Mechanical Oscillator Patents US Patent #514,169 and #517,900 — Filed 1893 Documents the steam-powered resonance generator referenced in the Houston Street incident.
Tesla’s Radio Patents US Patent #645,576 — Filed September 2, 1897. Granted March 20, 1900. US Patent #649,621 These are the patents cited in the 1943 Supreme Court case.
JP Morgan Refusal Letter — July 14, 1903 “I should not feel disposed at present to make any further advances.” Original held at: The Morgan Library and Archive, New York
NY World-Telegram — July 11, 1935 Article: “Nikola Tesla, at 79, Uses Earth to Transmit Signals” Tesla’s own account of the 1898 Houston Street oscillator incident. Primary source for direct quotes used in the main note.
Secondary Sources
“The Mystery of Nikola Tesla’s Missing Files” — HISTORY.com https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-fbi-files Covers FBI files, Trump review, Wallace memo. Sourced to declassified documents.
“Misreading the Supreme Court: A Puzzling Chapter in the History of Radio” — Mercurians.org Critical and careful reading of the 1943 case. Important corrective to the oversimplified “Tesla invented radio” claim.
Wardenclyffe Tower — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower Well-sourced overview with primary references to Morgan correspondence and demolition timeline.
Tesla’s Oscillator — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%27s_oscillator Documents the oscillator experiments, the Houston Street incident, and the MythBusters test (Episode 60, 2006 — results inconclusive, not debunked).
Still To Source — Do Not Cite Until Found
- Full text of Tesla–Morgan correspondence (Morgan Library and Archive)
- Complete inventory of Office of Alien Property seizure — not yet public
- Primary source for the 3-6-9 quote — unverified, do not cite
- Tesla’s Colorado Springs signal logs — original notebooks
- HAARP connection to Tesla’s ionospheric resonance work — needs primary documents investigate