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Welcome to the Tesla Memorial Society of New
York Website


Above: Tesla's Alternating Current is lighting the entire globe and providing electricity for industry and progress.

Above: Commemorative Plaque on Building (32 West 40 Street, Manhattan, New York), "The Engineers Club", was erected in memory of famous American Engineers who helped America transform from a largely agricultural nation to an architectural and industrial empire. Nikola Tesla's name is included on the plaque among other famous Americans.

Above: Plaque of Nikola Tesla on
Radio Wave Building. Radio Wave Building located at 49 West 27th
Street (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue), Lower Manhattan. It was the
former Gerlach Hotel, where Tesla lived before the end of the century and
experimented with Radio Waves, in 1896.

Above: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at the age of 38.

Above: Earth at Night (click to
enlarge).
Tesla's Alternating Current is today lighting the globe. Photo
by NASA satellites.
Links for Tesla and non-Tesla
Websites
Board
Members of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York
Tesla Memorial Society of New York (30 year
history of the Society) written by Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General
of the Society
The Year of 2006 is
"Nikola Tesla Year".
This year was proclaimed by the governments of Serbia and Croatia,
UNESCO, and the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Nikola
Tesla's birth in the Year 2006
United States
Governors Proclamations Proclaiming in their States "Nikola Tesla Day"
on July 10th
Tesla-related places in New York City
Nikola Tesla
Monument within Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls (Canadian side) was
unveiled on July 9, 2006

Above: Tesla Monument at
Niagara Falls (Canadian side), Queen Victoria Park, unveiled
on July 9, 2006. Tesla is standing atop an AC motor, one of the
700 inventions he patented. The monument was the work of Canadian
sculptor Les Dryzdale.

Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls,
New York. Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976.
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara
Falls. This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating Current
over Edison's Direct Current. The monument was the work of
Croatian sculptor Frane Krsinic.
Tesla Memorial Society of New York is celebrating its 27th
anniversary. It was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1979. It
is the oldest Tesla Society in North America dedicated to keeping the
memory of Nikola Tesla alive. We are committed to the pursuit of
science, progress, brotherhood among all nations and religions around
the world.

Above: New York City, Manhattan. Nikola Tesla lived and worked in
New York City for almost 60 years.

Above: Tesla commemorative
plaque on Hotel New Yorker erected July 10, 2001 by the Tesla Memorial
Society of New York and Hotel New Yorker.
Foundation of the Tesla Memorial Society
Click here for how the Tesla
Memorial Society was founded in 1979 by Nicholas Kosanovich, Executive
Secretary/ Treasurer
Tesla's Ashes in the Tesla Museum, Belgrade

Above: Tesla ashes were placed in a golden sphere, Tesla Museum,
Belgrade.
International "Nikola Tesla Day"

Above: Proposal for Proclamation of "Nikola Tesla
Day" on July 10 by United Nations. Click here for more
information.

Above: Nikola Tesla is among the "100
Greatest Americans" on Discovery Channel. Tesla Memorial Society
of New York is recognized by the Discovery Channel and America Online.
(Click on the text or photo for more
information)
Nikola Tesla Museum in
Belgrade Website

Above: The Nikola Tesla Museum
(Website) in Belgrade.

The Tesla Remote Control
photo from the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia (click here for
the museum).

Above:
Nikola Tesla, showing the inventor in the effulgent glory of myriad
tongues of electrical flame, New York Sunday World, 1894.

Above: Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich's book "Theoria
Philosophiae Naturalis", in front of the spiral coil of his
high-frequency transformer at East Houston St., New York
Click here for section on Nikola
Tesla Photographs
Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current Electricity is
driving our civilization to progress - Nikola Tesla is the genius who
lit the world
Satellite Photo of "Earth at Night"
- Tesla's Electrical Lights over continents was published in the
National Geographic Magazine, November Issue 2004

Above: Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo.
The greatest work of art on our planet. Click here for other
masterpieces of art.

Click here for the US Tesla Postal
Stamp (1983): A Tribute to American Inventors.

Above: The letterhead of Tesla's business stationery recalls some of
his more important inventions.
A Message from
Our Editoral Board (Click
here)
This website contains important documents and photos about Nikola
Tesla,
Albert Einstein,
Michael Pupin, famous sculptor
Ivan Mestrovic,
Mileva Maric (Einstein's wife),
Stanford White (Tesla's
friend), Dr. George
Papanicolaou,
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia,
Robert Underwood Johnson and
painter
Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy
(Click on the names for more information).
This website is our contribution to science, history and the memory of
those geniuses.
Click here for Memory of
the World, United Nations (Unesco)
 The
Tesla Bust by world famous sculptor
Ivan Mestrovic, 1939
Click here for the proclamation of the "Tesla
Unit" by the International Electro-Technical Commission. The "Tesla
Unit" was proclaimed in Rathaus, Munich on June 27, 1956.
Tesla Bust to be placed in Rathaus, Munich,
Germany as a tribute to the "Tesla Unit"
(click here for text)

Above: Wardenclyffe Tower with electrical sparks. Tesla built
this tower to transfer electricity without wires to electrify the entire
earth and to be the first broadcasting system in the world.
Click here for the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade and the biography of
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Marincic,
previous director Nikola Tesla Museum

Above: The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, the
place where Michael Pupin and Nikola Tesla had funeral services.


Above: Mayor of the City of New York, Fiorello
Laguardia, delivered a eulogy to Tesla broadcast on New York Radio,
January 10, 1943.

Above: Transmitting Tesla Tower and Laboratory built in 1901-1905 by
Stanford White, famous architect and Tesla's friend. Located in
Wardenclyffe, Long Island. This was to be the first broadcasting
system in the world. Tesla also wanted to transmit electricity
from this Tower to the whole globe without wires using the Ionosphere.
The source of the transmitted electricity was to be the Niagara Falls
power plant.
Click here for Tesla's discovery of the rotating
magnetic field
THE BLACKOUT OF
2003 - Only one day without Tesla's Alternating Current Electricity,
America returned to the Dark Ages

Above: Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in
Niagara Falls. This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating
Current over Edison's Direct Current. This is the interior of
Power House No. 1 of the Niagara Falls Power Company (1895-1899).

Above: View of the main water-fall at the Niagara river. Beginning
of the 20th century.

Above: Experimental Station at Colorado Springs where the first wireless
transmission experiments were preformed (1899-1900).

Above: Tesla sits below the Tesla Coil in his Colorado Spring
Laboratory. The coil creates millions of volts of electricity with
a frequency rate of 100,000 alterations per second.

Above: One of the original Tesla Electric Motors from 1888 which is
today the main power of for industry and household appliances.
Tesla's Electric Motor is one of the ten greatest inventions of all
times.

Above: Tesla is the father of high frequency high voltage
electricity which is used today in radio and other communication
devices. Here is a photo from Colorado Springs, Colorado (in
1899), illustrating the capacity of the oscillator to create electricity
of millions of volts and a frequency of 100,000 alternations per second.

Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated light bulb which
was illuminated without wires by an electromagnetic field from the
"Tesla Coil".
Tesla's Tribute - "Earth At Night"
(Click here for NASA photo where you see electrical lights at night
lighting every continent from Tesla's Alternating Current Electricity)
Who's Tesla?
Nikola
Tesla (1856-1943) was the genius who lit the world, whose
discoveries in the field of alternating polyphase current electricity
advanced the United States and the rest of the world into the modern
industrial era.
Nikola Tesla had 700 patents in the US and Europe. Tesla's
discoveries include the Tesla Coil, fluorescent light,
wireless transmission of electrical energy, radio, remote control,
discovery of cosmic radio waves and use of ionosphere for scientific
purposes.
Nikola Tesla was a New Yorker, who lived and worked in New York City
almost 60 years and died at Hotel New Yorker, in Manhattan, on January
7, 1943.
We here at the Tesla Memorial Society of New York want the world to
know of Tesla. Tesla's impact on our civilization is tremendous,
and his memory should be kept alive.
In 1917, Tesla was awarded the Edison Medal, the most
coveted electrical prize in the United States.
Nikola Tesla's name has been honored with an International Unit
of Magnetic Flux Density called "Tesla".
The United States Postal Service honored Tesla with a
commemorative stamp in 1983.
Tesla was inducted into the Inventor's Hall of Fame in
1975.
The
Nikola Tesla Award is one of the most distinguished honors presented
by the Institute of Electrical Engineers. The award has been given
annually since 1976.
The Nikola Tesla Award is presented annually since 1968, at
the Area Power Conference, Duluth, Minnesota. The award is
furnished by Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation.
The Nikola Tesla Statue is located on Goat Island to honor
the man whose inventions were incorporated into the Niagara Falls Power
Station in 1896. Tesla is known as the inventor of the polyphase
alternating current.
The Nikola Tesla Corner Sign located at the intersection of
40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, is a constant reminder to all
New Yorkers of the greatness of this genius.
Many of the new technologies in the world today, are based on
Tesla's ideas. Tesla spent 50 years of his life to find a way for
interplanetary communications, especially with Mars. He is the
first scientist in the world to use the Ionosphere for scientific
purposes (The Ionosphere is the upper part the atmosphere under constant
bombardment of solar energy, which breaks down molecules into ions
causing an ionized shield of our atmosphere, very important for radio
communications).
Nikola Tesla is a unifying force for the people of the Balkans,
and the people of the previous Austro-Hungary Empire (an area of Europe
devoted to science and progress). Every child in the Balkans knows
about Tesla.
The Tesla Memorial Society of New York is proposing that Tesla's
birthday, July 10th, be proclaimed by the United Nations "Nikola Tesla
Day". This day will signify a day of science, cosmos explorations,
and brotherhood among nations and religions around the world.
We are asking all Tesla admirers and all governments around the
world to support the idea of "Nikola Tesla Day".

The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 was the World's
Fair commemorating 400 years since Chrstopher Columbys set foot in the
New World. This was the first great victory of Tesla's
Alternating Current Electricity. Tesla and George Westinghouse
started the electrification of the globe.
Click below for information on:
The Tesla
Collection : 23 Volume Set, Newspaper and Magazine articles about Tesla
(from 1887 - 1920) is the most comprehensive information about Tesla
ever published. Those are newspaper articles written by Tesla
and/or about Tesla when he was alive.

The Tesla
Collection
"Nikola
Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World": VHS

"From
Immigrant to Inventor : Michael Pupin Remembered": VHS
This film was produced in association with Columbia
University Physics Department. This is one of the rare documentary
films about Michael Pupin, the history of Columbia University and the
history of American Immigration. Participants of the film
are: Prof. S.W. WU - Pupin Medalist. Prof.
Emeritus Samuel Devons |