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beside him in the front seat of the car. One account says the mysterious
box was two feet long, a foot wide and six inches high, with two rods
sticking out of it. From the driver's side, Tesla reached over and pushed
the rods in, and the car took off at up to 80 miles per hour. He is reported
to have test-driven the loaned Pierce-Arrow for a week. If this story is
true, the secret of his power source died with him.
There are clues that indicate he could well have driven a car on "free
energy." For example, Tesla wrote to his friend Robert Johnson, editor of
Century magazine, that he had invented an electrical generator that didn't
need an outside source of power. In the early 1930s, Tesla announced that
he had, more than twenty-five years earlier, harnessed cosmic rays and
made them operate a moving device.
Trying to discover what he had been talking about, today's researchers
comb through his patents, such as "Apparatus for the Utilization of
Radiant Energy," U.S. Patent No. 658,957, 1901. The research indicates
Tesla was working on his "free energy" generator before he hammered out
a major article for Robert Johnson's June 1900 issue of Century, in which
he describes sending power wirelessly. He writes that a device for getting
energy directly from the sun would not be very profitable and therefore
would not be the best solution. Researchers such as scientist Oliver
Nichelson of Utah read this to mean that Tesla had learned that a "free
energy" device would never be allowed to reach the market, but a system
in which someone could still profit by selling power delivered wirelessly
had more of a chance of being allowed by the financial tycoons.
Today's creative-edge physicists may be vindicating Tesla's so-called
free energy invention with their theories about the possibility of tapping
incredibly abundant—estimated to be the energy equivalent of 10-to-the-
94th-power grams per cubic centimeter —supply of energy from the vacuum
of space that Adam Trombly spoke about.
GOVERNMENT AGENTS TAKE HIS PAPERS
According to his biographers, Tesla died in genteel poverty in a hotel
room in 1943 at age eighty-seven. His memory was honored in a funeral
service at St. John's cathedral, attended by more than two thousand people
including the elite of the day.
Although Tesla had become a United States citizen in 1899 and valued
his citizenship highly for the next fifty-nine years, he was strangely treated
like a recent immigrant at the end of his life. After his death the public
was told that his papers had been shipped back to Yugoslavia, and that
authorities in Washington had sent in the Custodian of Alien Property to
deal with his belongings. U.S. government agents reportedly had first
crack at his safe and other papers. Later a Tesla museum was built in