Tesla's Laboratory Destroyed

A fire in the building at 35 South Fifth avenue on the morning of March 13 utterly destroyed the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, which occupied the two upper floors. The destruction was most complete, nothing having been saved from the wreck. Mr. Tesla had occupied this laboratory for several years and in it were gathered all of the results of his labors for years in many lines of work, notably in the utilization of electrical currents of high frequency and voltage. All of the magnificent apparatus which he used to illustrate lectures on high frequency effects was destroyed, with the latest forms of his new type of dynamo, which was approaching commercial completion, besides scores of pieces of experimental apparatus employed by Mr. Tesla in researches, extending to every department of electrical science.