When Tesla was going to die, U.S. authorities had to deal with the problem how to seize his property. It was understood that the stuff was valuable, regarding Tesla’s repeated reports of particle beam weapons and death-ray machines. A trick was found. Authorities declared Tesla’s belongings as alien property so it could be seized by the Office of Alien Property. This made it possible to get a hold of the stuff immediately after Tesla’s death. But it also meant that now that it was alien, Sava Kosanovic, Tesla’s nephew, could put his hands on Tesla’s heritage in the end. So, with a little clever trick, the U.S. deprived herself of the physical heritage of Tesla. But still, his concepts, visions and ideas are still for free.
