The U.S. and russian governments, including the FBI, took Tesla's "folklore" very seriously. Go to the patent office database and look up all of Tesla's "folklore" which was patented and very real.
Fire up your GN. How did it fire up? He invented the ignition system as it's used today. Shut it down and go into your house and turn on the light. How did that happen? AC power, which Tesla made happen, which Edison fought to keep away from America since he had so much money invested in DC power already. He used to electrocute elephants at shows using AC power to smear Tesla's invention. Not folklore. Ive seen the film footage.
Any flourescent bulbs in your house? Tesla.
Make a phone call on your cell phone. How did that happen? Tesla.
Go heat up your dinner in the microwave. Where did that come from? Tesla.
Turn on your TV. How did that happen? The tesla coil inside.
Scalar EM weapons- Tesla.
From:
http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html
4 HOW DO SCALAR WEAPONS WORK?
Particles which are unorganized in hyperspace (potentials) can be harnessed into recreating multiple frequencies of scalar waves and these can now be manufactured artificially and can include frequencies between infrared and ultraviolet. If a transmitter is at a higher reference 'potential' than the interference zone of 2 crossed scalar beams, energy emerges into the plasma 'bottle' which materializes physically and this is called 'exothermic' mode. This can cause explosions and can be 'nuclear like' if set at a high frequency. Even though no electromagnetic energy has flown through space between the transmitters and the target, and because it has bypassed physical space, the energy can suddenly appear faster than the speed of light and destroy something without warning. It is only as a locked in artificial potential that is a directed 'river of force' in hyperspace and it is entirely undetectable with conventional scientific equipment, which is where the danger lies. Nobody can ever know what the enemy is planning or who their enemies are and because it never gets any press normal military personnel without this knowledge would never know what hit them, especially if it is scalar mind control. To extract energy back to the transmitters from the energy bottle of 2 crossed scalar beams the potential must be set at a lower mode and this is called 'endothermic' mode and as energy is extracted out of the 'bottle' area, a freezing will occur, possibly causing a thunderous sound.
When 2 transmitters send timed pulses, which meet, an explosion will occur which either produces energy or extracts it. If 2 crossed beams are in 'continuous' mode the energy between beams is continuous and Tesla globes and hemispheres can be made which act as a continuous shield to either destroy incoming weapons and aircraft entering it. If multiple frequencies are transmitted on the beams, at the intersection a 3 dimensional globe appears. This can be manipulated to have very high infolded energy with any desired light emission, shape, color or intensity. It can even cause metal to soften or melt. This 'bottle' of energy can be detonated inside the earth to create an earthquake or into a building to make a 'nuclear like' explosion. This 'bottle' can be moved anywhere on the planet or through it and made any size.
The Russians in 1985 once threatened the earth itself by activating their scalar weapons with multiple scalar transmitters turned on at once, endangering the survival of the entire planet. According to nuclear physicist Bearden, they conducted a massive, 'full up' scalar weapon systems and communications strategic exercise. During this sudden exercise American Frank Golden discovered the Russians activated 27 gigantic 'power taps', established by resonating the earth electrogravitationally on 54 powerful scalar frequencies (27 pairs where the two are separated from each other by 12 kHz.) transmitted into the earth and they utilized this to stimulate the earth into forced electrogravitational resonance on all 54 frequencies. Each of the 27 power taps extracted enormous energy from the molten core of the earth itself, and turning it into ordinary electrical power. Each giant tap is capable of powering 4 to 6 of the largest scalar EM howitzers possessed by Russia. Bearden writes: "Apparently over 100 giant scalar EM weapons were activated and a large number of command and control transmissions and it lasted several days. By alternating the potentials and loads of each of the two paired transmitters, electrical energy in enormous amounts can be extracted from the earth itself, fed by the 'giant cathode' that is the earth's molten core. Scalar EM command and control systems, including high data rate communications with underwater submarines, were also activated on a massive scale. The exercise went on for several days, as power taps were switched in and out, and command and control systems went up and down. Bearden claims not one American intelligence lab, or scientist detected this as they didn't have a detector for scalar EM radiation, and that not one officially believes that the exercise ever happened." However, it was monitored on an advanced, proprietary detection system by Frank Golden for several days and by Bearden for several hours.
HAARP/Weather control- Tesla. Sounds impossible to control weather but it's real. The U.S. military was experimenting with weather control in the 50's and were actually getting somewhere until Kennedy ended it...well officially anyway.
Problem is that Tesla kept much of his designs in his head, with only rough notes of the goal of an experiment. It took many people many many years to duplicate his work. Not just earthquake machines.
If you research enough, you'll realize that most of the technological world we're sitting on was widely built on tesla's work.
Newspapers in the 30's definitely exaggerated things. But newspapers arent the source of tesla's work thank god. Many of the non official stories of things Tesla was working on which were a little too "unreal" came from Mark Twain, one of his closest friends.