Scope and arrangement
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer. The collection consists of brief letters, three to Stanford White (1901) touching on the construction of Tesla’s transmission tower and building (known as Wardenclyffe); three to Benjamin F. Miessner (1915) concerning Miessner’s forthcoming book on radio dynamics and Tesla’s own work developing remote-controlled and self-propelled devices; and two thank-you letters. Also present are four Library call slips signed by Tesla.