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424 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
improve on his designs. The Tesla Engine Builders' Association is a cooperative
network of researchers doing just what their name says. This is
perhaps the most practical Tesla invention at this time, and could be extensively
replacing fossil fuel or nuclear power generation.)
From Chicago he moved again, living alternately in Milwaukee and
New York for a few years. During this time he sold a speedometer which
he invented to a watch company. It was installed in the luxury cars of the
day and provided him some income. Among other inventions which earlier
had fleetingly provided income was a fountain which he designed in
1915. He figured out how to power a decorative fountain to get aesthetically-pleasing
effects with little water.
DESPERATELY SEEKING FUNDS
Was Tesla also a would-be defense contractor Tesla had a liaison in
Germany before World War I and in 1916 to 1917 they planned to put the
bladeless turbine in tanks and other war vehicles. This was the reason that
J. P. Morgan, Jr. doled out more than $20,000 to Tesla to develop the turbine,
Seifer notes.
In a recent book, Dr. Seifer chronicles Tesla's "lost years," from 1915
onward, when the inventor tried unsuccessfully to raise money for resurrecting
his wireless project. Seifer encountered correspondence and articles
linking Tesla to such shadowy figures as a Nazi propagandist and a
German munitions manufacturer from whom the desperate inventor was
trying to get funding by selling his death ray concepts. Those attempts
ended when war was declared between their two countries. About Tesla's
links to warlords during the 1930s, Seifer says "There's a whole secret
side here that needs to be explored further. I did the best I could."
Unknown to most Teslaphiles, the inventor was not always based in
New York during those hidden years. For example, around the year 1925
to 1926 he was in Philadelphia working on the turbine design, and in 1931
he was in Massachusetts working with the head of U.S. Steel in an attempt
to put his turbines in the steel mills.
Seifer says a 300 page book was written about Tesla's turbine, but it has
not surfaced since the inventor's death.
CAR RAN ON EREE ENERGY
Tesla kept a much lower profile regarding another invention. The story—
seemingly impossible to document, generations later—is that when he
was around sixty-five, Tesla or his helpers pulled the gasoline engine out
of a new Pierce-Arrow and stuck in an 80 horsepower alternating current
electric motor. But no batteries! Instead, he bought a dozen vacuum tubes,
wires and resistors. Soon he had the parts arranged in a box which sat