TESLA NIKOLA: (1856-1943) Serbian-American Inventor and Engineer. Best-known for his contributions to the design of alternating current electricity supply systems. Tesla worked for a short time at the Edison Company before he set up laboratories and companies to develop his own ideas and devices. Edison and Tesla animosity toward each other was much commented during their lives. Very rare D.S., `Nikola Tesla´, being a signed cheque, Broadway, New York, 26th December 1934. The partially printed cheque, filled out by the representatives of the Royal Yugoslav Consulate General in New York and signed by the Yugoslavian Consul General, is drawn on The Chase National Bank and is made payable to Dr. Nikola Tesla for the sum of $125.00. Signed to the verso by Tesla as recipient. With bank cancellation, and a bank ink stamp cancellation to the verso, none of them affecting the signature. One extremely small pinhole, otherwise VG