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Historical Background Nikola Tesla built one of his greatest dreams on Long Island. When he began in 1900, much of the island was still wilderness mixed with a few farms, heavily forested with some...

The progress and development of man essentially depends on ingenuity. The most important product of the creative mind is an invention. Its final goal is an overall mastering of the mind over the...

Get Your History Correct and Give Credit Where Credit is Due Okay, I am probably as guilty as you in believing that Marconi actually invented radio. But he did not and it has taken decades – actually...

According to Joseph Kinney, the chief engineer and unofficial archivist of the New Yorker Hotel (an ancillary enterprise not of this magazine but of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church)...

Inventor Nikola Tesla didn’t get much glory when he was alive, but to hipsters now, he’s a real turn-on. There’s a scene in the film “Coffee and Cigarettes” where Jack and Meg White, of the band the...

NEW YORK — A host of dignitaries, clergy, and educators gathered on the evening of July 10 to dedicate a plaque honoring Nikola Tesla. The ceremony was held outside the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla...

Tesla’s Big Plans!… As soon as [the Wardenclyffe plant is] completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office...

Calling Tesla merely “an inventor” would be like referring to Frederic Chopin as simply “a piano player.” What would cause a person to refuse a Nobel Prize? A 1915 Reuters dispatch from London stated...

Ancient Wisdom More than any other human attribute, Nature detests arrogance. The ancient Greeks told of King Salmoneus, who decided that his power equaled that of Zeus. Thus Salmoneus’ subjects were...

Source: Name witheld (sic) by request. The Source is from Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia. Documents from a European Source express concern about the future of the contents of the Tesla Library in...