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Tesla archives for sale
From: Sulaiman Abdullah[SMTP:sulabd-at-hotmail-dot-com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 4:12 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Tesla archives for sale
Hi, for anyone interrested in Tesla memorabilia, check out;
http://www.ieee-dot-org/history_center/general_info/newsletters/past_issues/issue_42.html#article20
Tesla Archives
A unique opportunity for museums and repositories of electrical history
has recently emerged. The firm Boyle and Anderson of Denver, Colorado,
which own a an archive on Nikola Tesla believed to be the largest
collection in private ownership in the world, has opened their
collection for bid acquisition.
The archive is in three parts:
Twenty four lots of Nikola Tesla correspondence, manuscripts, and
documents, ranging in date from February 21, 1894 through October 31,
1942. Some of the most significant and colorful items in his career are
represented, including a letter in French to a woman admirer, and a
46-line poem entirely in his own hand, "Fragments of Olympian Gossip",
humorously 'observing' a number of past scientists and philosophers such
as Archimedes, Fermat, Newton, and Kelvin.
Sixty bills and receipts for supplies provided to Tesla from various
vendors, addressed to both his Houston Street laboratory in New York
City and his experimental station in Colorado Springs.
A collection of more than 750 photographs of and about Nikola Tesla and
his work. The images concern Tesla's life and career, laboratories,
apparatus, celebrations, and commemorative events following his death.
Captioning and supplemental historical notes are included. The photos
are contained in six 28 cm by 28 cm binders, plus one additional binder
that measures 33 cm by 38 cm. (all having transparent envelope-pockets)
weighing just over 18 kilograms and occupying 76 cm. of shelf space.
Asking price for the archive is $17,000 and bids will be accepted in
writing up to December 15, 1996. Appointments are encouraged for
examination of the material. For more information, contact Leland
Anderson, Boyle & Anderson, 2525 South Meade St., Denver, CO 80219.
bye ... Sulaiman