January 25, 2008

Web Extra: Tesla in New York

Tesla arrived in New York City in 1884 with 4 cents in his pocket and dreams of becoming a great scientist and discoverer. Explore Tesla's life in the city through this interactive map, along with photos, video and audio.

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Posted by: Herbert Falk June 23, 2008 - 01:34PM
Hendesronville Nc

Greatly enjoyed the book but wondered about the author's claim of the 43 story New Yorker Hotel being the tallest building in NYC in 1930. The Woolworth Building, built some 20 years earlier in lower Manhattan, at 60 stories, was, until construction of the Empire State Building in 1931, the tallest building not only in NYC but in the world.

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Posted by: Jane Alcorn February 03, 2009 - 09:16PM
Shoreham, NY

On the website interactive map, the Tesla Lab site is incorrectly marked. And we in Shoreham have NOT forgotten this special genius. We are working towards the preservation of his laboratory and the establishment of a museum and Tesla archive in the Stanford White-designed building.

BTW - you can see the tower base from the road. Your spokesman on the video was pointing in the wrong direction!

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Posted by: Jane Alcorn February 03, 2009 - 09:17PM
Shoreham, NY

Visit our website: teslasciencecenter.org to see what we are doing.

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Posted by: Shon Stan March 24, 2009 - 03:48PM

The map doesn't work, and just a few days ago it worked...

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