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What did Einstein, Tesla, Marconi and Wurster all discover? Long Island. By Catherine Heusel Staff Writer MAVERICKS. In some cases, legends of scientific invention. Innovative thinkers who challenged...

By Bill McTernan Shoreham — The people of this North Shore village thought the end of the world had come one summer night in 1902, when ghostly flashes of light and crackling blasts shattered the...

Shoreham — Much of what was done here by Nikola Tesla — the Croatian-born scientist who helped make electrical generators possible — has faded from memory. But, about a month ago, a volunteer fireman...

Shoreham — In the end, Nikola Tesla kept his mystery. The Croatian-born scientist — whose pioneering work led directly to the development of electric motors — spent several years here in the early...