Nicola Tesla Memorializes The New Yorker Hotel Forever

clipped from www.thecommentfactory.com Nikola Tesla, godfather of the 20th Century, deserves more credit Nikola Tesla was one of the most prolific inventors in human history with some 700 patents to his credit. Yet, for complex reasons, he is not given the credit sorely due him. Most of his failures can be ascribed to his lack of business sense, vicious competition from his rivals, and difficulties in securing the necessary funding for his work. He passed away on Orthodox Christmas, January 7, 1943 in the New Yorker Hotel, alone and a pauper. His cremated remains lie in a museum in Belgrade along with some of the papers/notebooks from his lifelong work.

~ by petrosianii on May 12, 2009.