According to Nikola's nephew, Sava Kosanović, who wrote to me, two days after Nikola passed away, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Nikola's belongings, although he was an American citizen.
Nikola's entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker was transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under the Office of Alien Property and sealed.
John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the items in OAP custody.
After a three-day investigation, Trump's report concluded that there was nothing which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands, stating:
"Tesla's thoughts and efforts during at least the past 15 years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character often concerned with the production and wireless transmission of power; but did not include new, sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results."
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Non-FictionThis novel is based on a true story. The true story about the light bulb! Let me tell you about the love of my heart. A hero by most people's standards. The world should have loved him as much as I do. But they didn't. He deserved it.
