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The fire of Tesla's New York laboratory at South 5th Ave.

South Fifth Avenue Laboratory

Landmark added April 14, 2026 - 10:36 AM
Nikola Tesla established his laboratory on the fourth floor of a six-story building at 33-35 South Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in August 1892. This was a highly productive period...
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If The Air Should Burn Up

New York Tribune - April 9th, 1899
A STARTLING AND INCENDIARY POSSIBILITY, SUGGESTED BY MR. TESLA. In a paper which Mr. Tesla recently contributed to the pages of "The Electrical Review" he mentioned a striking possibility. He was...
Article added September 12, 2017 - 9:39 AM

5th Ave. Lab Burns

Timeline entry added March 1, 2015 - 12:20 AM
A fire broke out in the basement of 33-35 South 5th Ave. (now West Broadway) and swept through the entire structure, including Tesla's laboratory, which occupied the entire fourth floor of the six...

Tesla Opens 5th Ave. Lab

Timeline entry added March 1, 2015 - 12:20 AM
There are no documented reasons for Tesla's relocation of his laboratory from Grand St. to 33-35 South 5th Ave. (now called West Broadway). Perhaps it was a more convenient location or provided more...
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Destruction of the Tesla Laboratory by Fire

Electrical Engineer - March 20th, 1895
By a fire which almost completely gutted the six-story and basement building at 33 and 35 South Fifth avenue, this city, on March 13, Mr. Nikola Tesla, the electrician, lost all of the apparatus with...
Article added November 15, 2011 - 3:01 AM
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Mr. Tesla's Great Loss

New York Times - March 14th, 1895
All of the Electrician's Valuable Instruments Burned. WORK OF HALF A LIFETIME GONE Firemen Unable to Save His Laboratory in South Fifth Avenue — He Loses $50,000; Gillis & Geoghegan $80,000. "I am in...
Article added November 12, 2011 - 12:36 AM
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Inventor Tesla's Loss

Scientific American - March 23rd, 1895
By a fire which occurred at 33 and 35 South Fifth Avenue, New York City, on the morning of March 13, Nikola Tesla, the inventor and scientist, sustained a severe loss in the total destruction of his...
Article added September 29, 2011 - 2:25 AM
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Nikola Tesla's Loss

Public Opinion - March 21st, 1895
Baltimore Herald A disposition prevails to view the destruction of Nikola Tesla's electrical laboratory in New York as a great calamity. The wizard himself is described as being very much cast down...
Article added September 29, 2011 - 1:44 AM