Engineering & invention
John G. Trump
Electrical engineer examining Tesla’s papers
Also known as John Trump
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
John G. Trump was the electrical engineer credited in PBS’s Tesla history with examining Tesla’s papers after his death in 1943. The account quotes Trump’s assessment of the material in government custody. His place here is as a technical reviewer in the documentary history surrounding Tesla’s legacy, rather than evidence of a successful secret technology.
He appears through the reported official examination of Tesla’s papers.
Selected contributions
- Examined Tesla’s papers in the 1943 government review as recounted by PBS.Source ↗
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- The missing papers ↗PBS: Tesla, Master of Lightning
Portrait credit
MIT Photo Service (photographer unknown). Public domain in the United States (Commons file-specific declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain in the United States (Commons file-specific declaration) ↗
