[Thursday] Tesla's Galena (More on the subject

[Len Arzoomanian]

I found this, believe it or not, on the museum website from none other than Fred on a talking tour with Bob himself.

Locally, there is an amusing incident to me, because this is the museum of wireless and steam, and the George Corliss Steam Engine Company was in pretty hard shape at the beginning of this century, in fact, they were essentially out of business…nobody was buying steam engines anymore…at least of the Corliss type…and so they tried to diversify into the radio business, and they changed the name of the company to the American-British Company, and experimented with wireless. And according to the father of one of our early volunteers here, the American British Company hired Tesla to come up here and experiment on radio, and that hunk of galena back in the corner…there’s a picture of it here…supposedly was acquired by Tesla to carry on his experimentation. Fred – “Were they successful?” No, the American British failed very quickly.

Len

From: Len Arzoomanian 
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:45 AM
To: thursday at newsm.org 
Subject: Tesla's Galena

This is in the detector window in the wireless building.
I have been looking for a connection between Massie and Tesla due to Tesla’s Special article in the Massie and Underhill book, “Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony”", 1908.

The card with this enormous Galena shows a connection between Providence and Tesla.

Then tonight I found a book,  “Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla” which stated:

“Throughout 1909 and 1910 the inventor (Tesla) shuffled back and forth between Providence, Bridgeport, and New York City, where he had installed various renditions of his turbines.”

Who else in Rhode Island would Tesla meet when he was here other than Massie?

Len

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