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1900 In Germany, Wilhelm Schallmeyer writes “Inheritance and Selection in the Life History of Nationalities: A Sociopolitical Study Based on the Newer Biology,” which puts forward the idea of pre- marital screening by doctors for® “undesirable” inheritable traits. 1900 Over 6,000 people fall ill in Britain after beer is contaminated with arsenic from the production of carbonic acid gas from coal in the sugar refining process. 1901 J.P. Morgan partner Willard Straight becomes assistant to Sir Robert Hart, chief of Imperial Chi- nese Customs Service, conducting opium traffic. Later, Straight becomes head of Morgan Banks Far Eastern operations. 1901 Tesla patent 685,012, in which he describes supercooling of conductors to lower resistance. At this time, Tesla wanted to sue Marconi for patent infringement. Marconi had used Tesla patent #645,576, filed in 1897 and issued March 20, 1900. Tesla begins building Wardenclyffe Tower for radio broadcast- ing and wireless transmission of power. 1902 Rockefeller General Education Board founded, with the objective of racial amalgamation and abo- lition of difference between sexes. The overt stated objective: “the promotion of education in the United States without distinctions of sex, race, or creed.” Incorporators include Frederick T. Gates (Rock- efeller’s right-hand man), Daniel Coit Gilman (vice president Peabody Fund and Slater Fund, president of University of California (1872) and Johns Hopkins (1875), incorporator and first president of the Carnegie Institute and original incorporator of Russell Sage Foundation. Gilman helped set up the Yale Trust in 1856 to finance the Skull & Bones organization. Other original directors of the General Educa- tion Board included Morris K. Jessup, a banker who had been treasurer of the Peabody and Slater Funds, and Walter Hines Page, who as U.S. ambassador to Britain would help involve the U.S. in World War I, and George Peabody, who would be appointed the first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1921) and later became a director of FDR's Warm Springs Foundation and treasurer to the Democratic Party. Peabody espoused to Fabian Socialism. The General Education Board was 1902 The Chicago Health Department develops its “vaccination creed,” which states that “true vaccina- tion repeated until it 'no longer takes' always prevents smallpox. Nothing else does.” The policy is immediately t taken up by the U.S. military. 1902 Tesla files patent #1,119,732 on an “Apparatus For Transmitting Electrical Energy. Patent issued in 1914. Also #685,975, “Apparatus for Utilization of Radiant Energy.” 1902 British Lord Kelvin proclaims agreement with Tesla in regard to two issues: Mars was signaling America, and the conservation of non-renewable resources. 1903 Tesla's money problems grow more severe. J.P. Morgan sends the remainder of the promised $150,000, but it barely covers bills. 339 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1900 Max Planck formulates quantum theory. 1901 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research founded. 1901 J.P. Morgan buys $23 million in stock of Central Railroad of New Jersey. 1902 Paul and Felix Warburg emigrate to the United States. 1903 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research expands influence. 1903 William J. (Bill) Donovan studies law at Columbia University. 1908. FDR was one of Donovan’s classmates. (See 1915) 1903 United States immigration adds “Epileptics and insane persons” to the list of excluded persons. 1903 Tesla patent #723,188 and #725,605 contain principles of logical AND circuit element. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation