Re: [TCML] Something interesting

[Anthony Etersque <etersque26@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed, Bart

The Smithsonian, specifically, the Archives Center at the National Museum of 
American History, possesses the papers of Kenneth M. Swezey, who was a close 
friend of Tesla's during the last 19 years of Tesla's life. The collection 
consists of about 25 boxes. I've been wanting to gather more rare Tesla 
papers, so I travelled there to see what I could find. It turns out there 
was a lot. I made over 250 photocopies. There were letters from Tesla, 
letters to Tesla (from such people as President Roosevelt), countless Tesla 
news articles, personal manuscripts written by Tesla outlining his 
discoveries, photographs...basically every single thing relating to Tesla 
you could imagine. The guy kept all of the original publications of the 
Tesla Society headed by Leland Anderson, for example. I just got home and 
haven't even looked over any of it because I spent the whole two days 
photocopying non-stop. I now have to sort through it all (and decipher 
Tesla's handwriting). I will definitely scan the picture and send it to 
anyone interested, along with anything else that is interesting.

Anthony
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Phillips" <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Something interesting


I hope this is not considered off-topic. I'm in Washington, DC right now, 
looking at more Tesla papers at the Smithsonian Institution. I thought I'd 
mention something interesting. I found a letter by someone who knew Tesla at 
his laboratory in Shoreham (Wardenclyffe). The letter (dated in the 60s) 
mentioned that the attic of a house neighboring Wardenclyffe was full of old 
Tesla apparati from the laboratory. I wonder if any of this is still around? 
In addition, there were photographs of Wardenclyffe from the 50s, showing 
the laboratory with some of Tesla's stuff still in it.  I'm sure many here 
have seen the picture of the Wardenclyffe lab with Tesla's single terminal 
(pancake) coil hanging on the wall. Well, there was a picture of it from the 
late 50s still hanging on the wall (for all those years)! The wood on which 
it was constructed was all smashed up and the windings were missing. I also 
found the exact address of Tesla's Colorado Springs lab: 1402 E Pikes Peaks 
Ave, according to one of the documents in the collection.


Anthony"

Very interesting indeed and surely "on topic".  I wonder if it would be 
possible to see those photographs?  Also curious as to how you got access to 
the papers - didn't realize the Smithsonian offered that kind of service.

Ed



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