Nikola Tesla Books
After this war, the greatest in the history of mankind, a new world must be built that will justify the sacrifices that humanity has endured. In this new world, the results of human mind, technology, and art should serve society for the betterment and beautification of life, and not for the acquisition of wealth by individuals. This new world must not be a world of the humiliated and offended, but a world of free people and free nations, equal in respecting human dignity.
His statements from an earlier period are well-known:
I am equally proud of my Serbian heritage and my Croatian homeland.
And on another occasion he stated:
I am a Serb, that is, a Croat, because it is one and the same.
To the Academy of Sciences of the USSR he writes:
Having found their ideal in their own independent state, the Yugoslav peoples have always been and will be against fascist ideology... We, the Southern Slavs, observe with admiration the heroic struggle on the battlefield of our fraternal Russian and other peoples of the Soviet Union...
Tesla lived, as we have already mentioned, in his last years in a New York Hotel in the busiest and loudest part of the city, where he had two rooms on the 33rd floor. On the door it was written: "Do not enter without permission." From our state treasury he received a pension of 600 dollars a month.
In 1939, when a car knocked him down on the street and broke three of his ribs, after which he developed pneumonia, his health, which had served him excellently until then, deteriorated. When his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, visited him on one occasion, he found him sitting in bed, terribly pale and with a swollen face. All the windows were open, offering a wide view of the city. The water in the bathroom
