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Sep 24, 2016 · According to “Tesla – Master of Lightning” this is the last photograph taken of Tesla before his death. By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, the famous physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room.
May 3, 2018 · At the time, the FBI pointed to Dr. Trump’s report as evidence that Tesla’s vaunted “Death Ray” particle beam weapon didn’t exist, outside of rumors and speculation.
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- Robin Williams, 63, 1951-2014. This photo of Robin Williams with his monkey, Crystal, was posted by to his Instagram on his birthday, 20 days before he died.
- Freddie Mercury, 45, 1946-1991. This is one of the last photos of the lead singer of Queen, taken in 1991. Until the very end, Freddie denied rumours about having AIDS, preferring to avoid the inevitable media circus and concentrate on his career as best he could.
- Carrie Fisher, 60, 1956-2016. This photo of Carrie Fisher was taken by a fan in London the day before she boarded a flight to Los Angeles. On board the flight she suffered a heart attack and passed away in hospital four days later.
- Nikola Tesla, 86, 1856 - 1943. This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. The inventor, physicist, and futurist was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Jun 23, 2023 · Nikola Tesla was found dead in his hotel room bed by hotel staff on January 8th, 1943. It was later established that he’d died at approximately 10:45 pm on the 7th. The maid in question, Alice...
- Teleforce – Aka, The “Death Ray”
- The Papers Bandit
- Fact Or Fiction?
- Project Nick
- Soviet Access
- Ronald Reagan and ‘Star Wars’
- Releasing The Trunks – But Not All?
Nikola Tesla was not a fan of warfare. The inspiration behind Teleforce, better known as the Death Ray, was the hope of putting an end to it. The device was said to have the ability to create an invisible wall of energy that would protect a country from invasion and could shoot down an airplane from 250 miles away. It would harness a beam of metal ...
By 1943, Tesla was 86 years old, poor, and generally unwell. He hopped between New York hotels, only staying until he could no longer afford the bill. He typically holed himself up in his room and kept a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door. One morning, when a cleaning woman entered to do her job, she found Tesla dead on the floor, wearing nothing bu...
John G. Trump, an electrical engineer with the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, was asked to investigate the papers confiscated by the OAP. The US government hoped to use the blueprints for the Death Ray to their advantage and gave Trump three days to analyze Tesla’s work. Unfortunately, his ...
Following World War II, there was a renewed interest in beam weaponry. Under the command of Brig. Gen. Laurence Cardee Craigie, “Project Nick” was established to test the feasibility of Tesla’s invention. The project was heavily funded and provided copies of Tesla’s blueprints to operate. Ultimately, Project Nick was abandoned. The details of the e...
After the failed Project Nick, the FBIagreed to release some of Tesla’s papers back to his nephew, who had them placed in a museum in his uncle’s honor in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Under President Josip Broz Tito’s strict Communist regime, it became extremely difficult for Western scholars to gain access to the papers, and oftentimes that access with l...
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan created the Strategic Defense Initiative – nicknamed “Star Wars” – inspired by the concept of Tesla’s Death Ray and particle beam weaponry. Many believe the US government’s continued interest in Tesla’s theories may explain why some of his papers are still missing to this day (see below). Over the course of ...
In 2016, approximately 250 pages of Tesla-related documents were declassified and released back to the Nikola Tesla Museumin Belgrade. When the OAP originally emptied his hotel room, they confiscated 80 trunks worth of belongings. When giving the museum back his belongings, the FBI only returned 60. More from us: Book Delves Into Gruesome Crimes of...
Jun 27, 2018 · Nikola Tesla files Photo by FBI. The Bureau scorned the idea of a death ray in public, but as it turns out they were trying to retain it in the U.S. Tesla was a phenomenal individual but he also had a photographic memory, relying on his mind’s eye as much as plans and documents.
Oct 1, 2023 · Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. He was 86 and had been living in small hotel rooms like this for decades. His cause of death was coronary thrombosis. By then, much of the excitement around Tesla’s inventions had faded.
