Tesla’s Death Ray: The Weapon the Government Seized After His Death

<p>Released FBI Vault records on Nikola Tesla point to a real wartime intervention after his death in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel in January 1943. Tesla had spent years publicly promoting Teleforce, a proposed high-voltage particle-beam defensive weapon that newspapers renamed the death ray. After he died, wartime property officials took custody of his papers and possessions while federal investigators worried that his technical material might contain militarily valuable ideas. Doctor John G. Trump, an MIT high-voltage engineer working with the National Defense Research Committee, examined Tesla’s material and concluded that it contained no new practical engineering principles capable of producing the claimed weapon. But questions about inventories, alleged missing notebooks, foreign-interest concerns, and the speed of the review kept the mystery alive.</p><p><br></p><p>This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.</p><p><br></p><p>#ForbiddenKnowledgePodcast #ForbiddenInventionSeizedGovernmentFilesSecretWea #NikolaTesla #TeslaDeathRay #Teleforce</p><p><br></p><p>YES OR NO: Did Tesla’s seized Teleforce papers contain more than officials admitted??????</p>