Tesla microfilm letters

[Ernst]

The thread continues....

Thanks Michel!

Ernst.

[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0026-0027-0028-0029-0030

RU Johnson (2) 0026

Room 411.
70 Fifth Ave., New York.
February 10, 1916.


Dear Tesla:

Will you be my guest at the Author's Club, Carnegie Hall, 56th St., entrance, February 17th, at 8:15 P.M. sharp.? There is to be demonstration of Trans-continental Telephony in conjunction with Bohemian Club of San Francisco with supper afterwards. Each guest is to have a telephone receiver.

Faithfully thine,

R. U. Johnson's

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RU Johnson (2) 0027

Waldorf, February 11, 1916


My dear Luka:

I am very much obliged to you for the hospitality preferred but to my regret it will be impossible for me to come for reasons which hardly need explained.

At this moment I am busier than ever before and, besides, I have very little interest in the experimental demonstration.

Yours sincerely,


R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Ave.,
City.

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RU Johnson (2) 0028

Room 411.
70 Fifth Ave., New York.
March 1, 1916.


Dear Tesla:

When that Nobel prize comes, remember that I am holding on to my house by the skin of my teeth and desperately in need of cash!

No apology for mentioning the matter.

Yours faithfully,

R.U.J.

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RU Johnson (2) 0029


April 2, 1916

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.

Dear Nikola:

I have been in Washington nearly two weeks and I should have written you before to say that I am sorry I wrote you my last note I did not know how strenuous things were with you. Dont think me unfeeling, and I shall let my own troubles go hang, ratter then thank you again on the subject. We can sympathize with each others at least.

If you see any poignant …

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RU Johnson (2) 0030


… story of the Serbian horror do let me see it with to write of your race and its heroism.

My new book will have to go to press next week, I mean this week without anything about Serbia in my Poem of the Great War.

Believe me my dear fellow, always faithfully thine,

Luka J

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[Michelinho]

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RU Johnson (2) 0031


Monday Nov. 27, 1916.

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.


Dear Nikola:

We want you to drive with us Thanksgiving and Christmas evenings as in the old days. Will you not come?

It is a great sorrow that we see nothing of you whom we dearly love and who are so much to us. Surely our affection and confidence and sympathy cannot be matter of indifference to you, and we greatly need yours.

Private: I have an --- --- …

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RU Johnson (2) 0032


… --- operation which I am trying to stave off till --- return from France in January, and I wish to have a happy celebration of the Holidays for the sake of the young folk. In itself the operation is not dangerous I am told but at my age any chopping up is more serious than at yours – for one news --- what treason is lurking inside the fort.

Little Robby is with us and he is showing great interest in mechanical things. He is an adorable child and my imagination pictures a great future for him. I should like him to carry a vivid impression of you in his manners …

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RU Johnson (2) 0033


… of you in his manners.

Be good and come to us at seven o'clock on Thursday. Send me a line.

Affectionately thine,

Luka.

To Nikola Tesla from his old friend R. U. Johnson.

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RU Johnson (2) 0034

The Waldorf-Astoria. (Logo)

New York, Dec. 19th, 1916

Dear Nikola:

We will let you off from the thanksgiving dinner but may we not depend on you for Christmas?

Did you see my poem in the Times of Dec. 15 on “The New Slavery”?

I much wish to see you. Awaiting your response,

Faithfully R. Luka Johnson

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RU Johnson (2) 0035


December 21, 1917.

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.


Dear Nikola:

We want you to come to Christmas dinner at 7 o'clock to meet on the family including a lonely young lady.

Come back to 327 Lexington Avenue and all will be forgiven.

Some of us will be dead …

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[Jeff Pearson]

Wow Michel you are a Saint or something..... I don't have time to do this right now.....I am back to building my Earthship and doing construction for neighbors to keep my own projects going.... I won't have time to do this again till late Fall/Winter........THANK YOU!!!!!

[Michelinho]

Hi jeff,

Thanks for the kind words. I was quite busy during the last few months with the grand kids home for the summer but it's back to normal with school starting soon so I have some time to dedicate to the project.

This was my first year at bee-keeping with a Flow Hive and so far got 38 lb of pure honey and hope to reach about 45-50 lb by the end of the season. I enjoyed working with the bees but was careful as it is now populated with around 40,000 bees. So far only 2 stings and the good thing is that I am not allergic.

Wish you the best on your Earthship project.

Take care,

Michel

P.S.: Ernst, how are you doing with the Tesla project?

[Ernst]

Busy as your bees:

renovation 1
renovation 2

renovation 3
renovation 4
renovation 5
renovation 6
Down scaling 1
Down scaling 2
Down scaling 3
Down scaling 4
Down scaling 5
Generator 1
Generator 2
Generator 3
Generator 4
Generator 5
Generator 6
Generator 7
Generator 8 now reconfigured to give 2 phase 220V instead of 3 phase.

Also found a book from Snezana Sarboh, The unresolved patents of Nikola Tesla. Some more info never before published. But I haven't read it yet (just arrived yesterday).


Ernst

[Michelinho]

A few questions.

Hi Ernst,

Impressive work done there and a very nice generator. I have a few questions if you have time to address them.

Did Tesla ever used an Oudin coil to transmit power?

When do you think you will start testing and how will you tap in to test the power transmission? Can we help?

Are you planning to test the transmission over a great distance?

How deep is your ground tap? (Down to water table depth?)

Tesla used scale type plates in the dome of the transmitting tower, would it be more efficient at creating the ionization needed in the surrounding fluid (term used by Tesla in his flying machine patent)

This part is from far off memories. The Earth ground resistance is about 300 Ohm?, how much current would that setup push through it?

Take care,

Michel

[Ernst]

First and foremost: Thanks for your continuous work on this thread!

Did Tesla ever used an Oudin coil to transmit power?

I do not believe he did? Why would he? I don't believe it would even be possible in the quantities that Tesla was thinking of.

When do you think you will start testing and how will you tap in to test the power transmission? Can we help?

Are you planning to test the transmission over a great distance?

The first tests will concern power generation rather than transmission.
But when we'll test transmission, we'll pick it up where we left it (at 50 m) and take it from there. We can test a few 100 Km, about 10,000 Km and perhaps the boys from Brazil can help test almost 20,000 Km. It is funny to see that many people offer help on this particular point. Maybe at some point, if our tests are successful I can publish details on how to build a receiver and do a worldwide test. But I do not expect that anytime soon.

How deep is your ground tap? (Down to water table depth?)

I have two 15 m and two 17 m deep. Ground water is at 10 m.

Tesla used scale type plates in the dome of the transmitting tower, would it be more efficient at creating the ionization needed in the surrounding fluid (term used by Tesla in his flying machine patent)

There are many points on which my system could be improved, we just want a proof of concept for now.

This part is from far off memories. The Earth ground resistance is about 300 Ohm?, how much current would that setup push through it?

As much as we can. I have no figures on that yet.


Ernst.

[Michelinho]

Thanks Ernst,

I did not want to mess your other thread with my questions. As for this thread, I'm happy to help as I can read R. U. Johnson hand written letters, but the Tesla 's one, can't make head or tail. Thanks Jeff Pearson for his hard work at deciphering them.

I tried a few jpg to txt, doc and pdf converters for the typed letters but it did not give good results, that would have speeded up the transcriptions. As they say:"Tough luck".

Take care,

Michel

[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0036-0037-0038-0039-0040

RU Johnson (2) 0036


… before long. Before that time let's hold on the few friends we have. They are dying off rapidly.

I'd much rather spend an old fashioned evening with you now than have you write to your friend --- newspaper after I am gone a beautifully worded letter saying what a devil of a fellow I was.

Come on be human. …

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RU Johnson (2) 0037


… Come on be human. May we not expect you?

Yours, to be sure,

R. U. J. Fillipov

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RU Johnson (2) 0038


New York, November 6, 1918.

Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue.
New York City, N.Y.

My dear Luka:

Inclosed please find check for $500. as promised day before yesterday.

When you acquired the shares the actual cost was over $5,000 and there was an excellent prospect that you might make in the transaction something like $50,000. Unfortunately all my friends deserted me and unscrupulous promoters were permitted to exploit my wireless inventions which have since been universally adopted and serve as the only means of flashing messages across the seas.

Under the circumstances I shall endeavour to refund to you the $2000 with the interest to date as quickly as possible and this check is a payment on account.

Yours sincerely,

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RU Johnson (2) 0039


New York, November 6, 1918.

Received from Nikola Tesla the sum of five hundred dollars on account of his not to me.

R. U. Johnson's


Personal Receipt – 1918

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RU Johnson (2) 0040

November 7, 1918.

THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION
7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET

Dear Tesla:

I received and receipted for your letter inclosing your check of $500, which you may --- most welcome. I thank you for it with all my heart. I inclose a formal receipt, with my blessing.

Owen expects to sail …

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0041-0042-0043-0044-0045

RU Johnson (2) 0041


… very soon possibly day after tomorrow. I don't know why he was unable to meet you the other day.

You have done a timely service and I appreciate it.

With old-time regard faithfully yours.

R. U. Johnson

I have been --- over, --- with engagements and work today.

Receipt filed
with personal receipt

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RU Johnson (2) 0042

327 Lexington Ave.
New York,
Nov. 24, 1918.

Dear Tesla:

Owen is in Paris. He was very sorry to miss seeing you. This address is Morgan Harjes Co.

My fixed charges that press upon me are:

Nov. 1 Interest 300.
Nov. 27 Taxes 342
Dec. 3 Interest 325
$967.

So if you can carry out your obliging intention it will save the day for yours , with old-time friendship,

R. U. J. Filipov

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RU Johnson (2) 0043

Up to – Nov. 26 ---

New York, November 26, 1918.

Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue.
New York City, New York.

My dear Luka:

In confirmation of my telephone message of yesterday I am forwarding check for $500. under inclosure.

I am sorry to know that your financial returns are not commensurate with the many invaluable services you have rendered to the world.

Believe me, as ever

Sincerely yours,

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RU Johnson (2) 0044

New York Nov. 27, 1918.

Received of Nikola Tesla today five hundred dollars on ---

Robert U. Johnson's

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RU Johnson (2) 0045

Nov. 27, 1918.


THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION
7 WEST FORTY-THIRD STREET


Dear Nikola:

--- for you!

And thanks for your second $500. check, it will help immensely. I can scrape up enough to arrange for two of the payments and get extension on the third! Alas! …

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0046-0047-0048-0049-0050

RU Johnson (2) 0046


… if those use all. I hope to die interfase! I like to be even with the world at any given moment.

Again thanks, my dear fellow.

Do come to see us. I 'm sorry you cant come tomorrow as of ---.

Yours, to be sure,

R. U. Johnson's

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RU Johnson (2) 0047


December 30, 1918

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE

Dear Tesla:

A Happy New Year to you from us both!

We were much pleased to read what the Evening Post reported you as --- about “static”. In one you could read where you have some!

Owens children are here and we are --- to …

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RU Johnson (2) 0048


… be mother and father to them. I wish you could see them. The girls are tall and handsome and ---. Robby is adorable – he lives with us this winter. The girls are at boarding school.

Mrs Filipov is to be at home Wednesday (New Years Day) after 4 to her friends. Come and get a cup of tea and a warm welcome.

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___________________________

You remember I said my immediate need was for $1500 by January 1. I have paid three of my four fixed charges and am incurring interest on interest in the case of the fourth, my bank balance today …

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RU Johnson (2) 0049


... am incurring interest on interest in the case of the fourth, my bank balance today is $19.49. So if you could send me another $500. I should invoke the --- blessing of Mercury, god of commerce whom your fortune during the 1919 which everybody says is to be so prosperous!

Faithfully as always, yours to be sure.

R. U. Johnson's
P.S. I am sure you know
that I only write about this
from sheer necessity. I have nothing
in sight --- I do not already owe, I am working in several directions to get out of my hole.

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RU Johnson (2) 0050


Up to Dec. 31 - $1500.

New York, December 31, 1918.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 LEXINGTON Avenue,
New York City, N.Y.

My dear Luka:

I am glad that I was able to solve your problem and am sending check for $500. under inclosure.

Hoping that your affairs will turn for the better and wishing you a happy New Year. I remain

Very sincerely yours,

Inc.

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0051-0052-0053-0054-0055

RU Johnson (2) 0051


ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON
347 MADISON Avenue
Room 1412

January 2, 1919

Dear Tesla:

Blessings on you for the third check of $500 – that is in all $1500 “on account”. You will never know how much this has done for me.

Mrs. Filipov is sending you the extract from the Evening Post.

I think you do not realize how much you are missed at 327 Lexington Ave. Some time I may be run over by a yellow mule & then you'll be sorry!

We heard today --- that Owen has just received the Legion d'Honneur, which makes me very happy.

Faithfully yours,

R. U. Johnson

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RU Johnson (2) 0052


327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.

Dear Tesla:

As April and May – the dates of “fixed charges” - draw near my thoughts turn hopefully to you. Verbum sap.

When N. T. talks of communication with the planets he is thought to be addled: When Marconi repeats the idea…

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RU Johnson (2) 0053


… it is no longer laughed at Moval: Better be second than first in some things.

Here's a secret – for the present: Egan and Van Dyke and Bertron and Plympton & others are recommending your humble servant to succeed Tom Page at Rome. Being in an unusual sense persona grata to Italians there and here I believe I might be of use but I am not hustling for the place and shall be disappointed if nothing comes of it all. …

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RU Johnson (2) 0054


… ed if nothing comes of it all. But wouldn't it be strange if that automobile would have to be delivered in the Eternal City!

Yours to be sure (in both sense of the phrase),

R. Filipov Johnson.

March 19, 1919.

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RU Johnson (2) 0055


New York, March 20th, 1919.

Robert U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
New York City. N.Y.

My dear Johnson:

Please excuse me for this formal reply to your letter just received. I have never been busier in my life.

As matters now stand I fear that it will not be possible for me to do anything. But I have excellent prospects and you will undoubtedly hear from me favourably within three months from now.

It seems that you have got me and that Italian promoter mixed. The fact is just the opposite but my friends do not see it so.

With best hopes for the realisation of your ambitions

Yours sincerely.

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0056-0057-0058-0059-0060

RU Johnson (2) 0056


April 10, 1919.

327 LEXINGTON AVENUE.

Dear Tesla:

Thank you for your sympathetic but disappointing letter.

I have already discounted a payment due me July 1 and used up the money for fixed charges. I must get $500. by May 1 for interests on the --- & mortgage on this house. I can get extension on the second mortgage and, by paying penalty on my taxes. So if you can possibly …


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RU Johnson (2) 0057


… let me have $500 this month the other $1000. can wait till July1.

You know that nothing but dire necessity would entice me to make a point of this with you.

The Italian thing will not be determined one way or the other for some time, I feel sure as lots of my friends have interested themselves to promote it. In a matter of honors I simply cannot hustle – with best wishes and unchanged affection. …



RU Johnson (2) 0058



...
Yours faithfully,

R. U. Johnson's


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RU Johnson (2) 0059


Up to present $1500. --- to R. U. J.

8W. 40 St., New York, 4/11/19

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
City.

My dear Johnson:

I am very sorry to say, in reply to yours yesterday, that there has been no change in the situation, on the contrary, unwelcome delays have occurred.

It seems to me that some of your close friends, as Messrs Anthony, Bertrand or Thorne would be very glad to assist you temporarily if you merely express the wish. These gentlemen deal in large affairs, are very wealthy, and any one of them could take over your mortgages and, in addition, provide you with money you need now.

The only suggestion I can make is that you call on Mr. Richard Peters, an old friend of mine, to whom I advanced …


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RU Johnson (2) 0060


… money some years ago and who might be in the position to refund it at this time. He is a very charming man and if you can collect a couple of thousand dollars from him you may have them.

I am anxious for your advancement but hope that you will remain among your friends who are devoted to you and know your worth instead of passing your old days in an environment of cunning and deceit.

Yours sincerely,

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[Michelinho]

RU Johnson (2) 0061-0062-0063-0064-0065

RU Johnson (2) 0061


8 W. 40 St., New York, Nov. 20, 1919

Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
City.

My dear Luka:

I have received your appeal “Now for Italy” with which I would be in sympathy had it been forward with due observance of the lofty principles of which you are an ardent exponent. But the vulgar promoters who are exploiting the public would defile a more snored cause than that of Charity.

I am afraid that what you lack in judgement is vastly in excess of that possessed by Salomon and if you are not careful in fathering such schemes your reputation will share the fate of the German Mark.

However, you always mean to do well and may Heaven bless you.

Yours sincerely,


Enclosure
Excerpt May article” --- --- --- “ El. Exp.
page 61.

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RU Johnson (2) 0062


ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON
347 Madison Avenue
New York City
Room 1412

November 26, 1919

Dear Tesla:

Do you think it is impossible that some time a football game at Cambridge should be reproduced on the screen in New York simultaneously with the activity? Of course the principle of photographic motion has been established. Has there been established the principle of transmitting a portrait by telegraph?If so, are these not all the principles that would be involved,- the rest being adjustment and detail? If you will invent the process we can share the results and both be millionaires, for it can be adapted to other things.

Faithfully yours,

R. U. Johnson

Nikola Tesla, Esq.,
Waldorf Astoria,
New York.

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RU Johnson (2) 0063


8 West 40th Street,
New York, Nov. 29th, 1919

Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq.,
327 Lexington Avenue,
City.

My dear Johnson:

Replying to your letter of the 26th inst I am expecting to become a multi-millionaire without going into the show business. But if your inclinations are in that direction I shall be glad to assist you in every possible way in the attainment of the object of your desire.

In the present state of the art the best suggestion I can make to this end is to employ nine flying machines (wing- and propeller-less) of my invention capable of a speed of 500 miles per hour or more, to take the negatives of an innings, develop the films in transit and then reel them off as fast as they arrive. I mention nine machines because I anticipate that you do not care for the expense, otherwise you might get along with small number. This would …

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RU Johnson (2) 0064


… involve a delay of three-quarters of an hour but you could gain on this by innocently juggling the difference between the eastern and western time.

The above is offered merely on the principle that something is better than nothing. The simultaneously transmission is a hard nut to crack. It calls for an invention to which I have devoted twenty years of careful study and which I hope I will ultimately realize, that is, television, making possible to see at distance through a wire. I agree with you that if successfully caried out it could be “adapted to other things: - of which you do not seem to have thought. I am glad however, to know that you thought. I am glad however, to know that you are a genuine American, baseball ueber alles.

Yours faithfully,

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RU Johnson (2) 0065

RUJ (letterhead)

8 West 40th Street,
New York, Nov. 29th, 1919.

R. U. Johnson, Esq.,
347 Madison Avenue,
New York City, N.Y.

My dear Johnson:

Replying to your letter of the 26th inst I am expecting to become a multi-millionaire without going into the show business. But if your inclinations are in that direction I shall be glad to assist you in every possible way in the attainment of the object of your desire.

In the present state of the art the best suggestion I can make to this end is to employ nine flying machines (wing- and propeller-less) of my invention capable of a speed of 500 miles an hour or more, to take the negatives of an inning, develop the films in transit and then reel them off as fast as they arrive. I mention nine machines because I anticipate that you do not care for the expense, otherwise you might get along with small number. This would …

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