Tue 10 May 94  9:50
By: Phil Hansford
To: David Arnold
Re: Light With No Apparent Source
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 >  DA> would you list some of the myths that need to be
 >  DA> debunked and explain the truth about them?

 > There are a lot of them...Of the top of my head, let's see...

 > That Tesla communicated with extra-terrestrials.

 DA> heehee

 > That Tesla was murdered by the US government to suppress his
 > inventions.

 DA> how DID Tesla die?  just for the record here.

He died of natural causes at an old age in his sleep.  Hmmm, gotta go
look it up (be right back, grin)...

According to Margaret Cheney's, 'Tesla: Man Out of Time" (the definitive
book on Tesla, IMHO)...

'On the fourth of January, the inventor, although very weak, went to his
office to make an experiment that George Sherff was interested in.  Sherff
dropped in to help him prepare for it.  The work was interrupted, however, when
Tesla felt a recurrence of some sharp pains in his chest.

'Refusing medical aid, he returned to his hotel.  Next day a maid came in and
cleaned.  As she left, he asked her to put the *Do Not Disturb* sign
on is door to keep visitors away, and not to bother cleaning.  The sign
remained there the following day and the one after that.

'Early on the morning of January 8, Alice Monaghan, a maid, ignored the sign
and entered the apartment to find the inventor dead in his bed.  His sunken,
emanciated face composed.  Asistant Medical Examiner H.W. Wembly examined the
body, placed the time of death at 10:30 P.M. on January 7, 1943, and gave his
opinion that the cause of death had been coronary thrombosis.  Tesla had died
in his sleep, and the examiner noted that he had found "No suspicious
circumstances."  The inventor was eighty-six years of age.'

//Phil//

 * Origin: Mysteria Point (1:102/943.1)
