"Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" lecture is given before the Institution of Electrical Engineers with an encore the next day before The Royal Institution of Great Brittain, both in London, England.
"Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" lecture is given before the Societe Francaise de Physique in Paris, France. A second lecture was planned for Paris but was cancelled when Tesla received a telegram from his Uncle Petar notifying him of his mother's failing health.
Tesla rushed to his mother's side as she lay dying, arriving from Paris hours before her death. Her last words to him were: "You've arrived, Nidžo, my pride." Tesla's mother died on the Easter Sunday at one o'clock in the morning and was buried later that day beside her husband at the Jasikovac cemetery in Divoselo, Croatia. After her death, Tesla fell ill. He spent two to three weeks recuperating in Gospić and the village of Tomingaj near Gračac, a village in the southern part of Lika, Croatia, his mother's birthplace.
After three years in the Astor House, Tesla moved to the Hotel Gerlach, which was a much more modern hotel equipped with elevators, electric lights and sumptuous dining rooms. The hotel was fireproof and was located just a few blocks from the newly finished Madison Square Garden.
