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Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla dies in New York City. |
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Tesla, in the New York Times, is reported having observed that "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. [...] I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little ... |
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The cover of Time Magazine celebrates the inventor Nikola Tesla's remarkable career. |
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The New York Times publishes an interview with inventor Nikola Tesla in which he states that "'It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible, and have ... |
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John Hays Hammond Jr. writes a letter to Nikola Tesla proposing the creation of the Tesla-Hammond Wireless Development Company with a purpose to perfect Teleautomatics for the torpedo. |
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The Tunguska Impact Event occurs when a huge fireball streaks across the Siberian sky, terminating in an explosion that topples an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres. No crater has ever been found, leading some to speculate that the explosion was the airburst of a meteorite or ... |
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The New York Times runs the story "Tesla Tower to be Sold" regarding the demise of his Wardenclyffe Tower project which had lost the backing of J.P. Morgan when Morgan realized that much money could be made in the mining of copper for the creation of wire. |
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In an article entiteld "The People's Forum" in The World, Tesla that "flying machines and ships propelled by electricity transmitted without wire will have ceased to be a wonder in ten years from now. I would say five were it not that there is such a thing as "inertia of human opinion" resisting re ... |
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Electrical World and Engineer publishes Nikola Tesla's "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means of Furthering World Peace." |
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After several hotly written exchanges, J.P.. Morgan finally sends the 49% balance legally due to inventor Nikola Tesla. |
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J.P. Morgan writes a letter to Nikola Tesla indicating that he will not advance him any more money. |
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Nikola Tesla pens a letter to the Light House Board providing information on his ability to supply wireless telegraph apparatus. |
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The Niagra Falls Power Company achieves its first long-distance transmission of hydroelectric power. The AC power from Nikola Tesla's brain child flowed over 26 miles to Buffalo, New York. Such a feat could not be achieved using Edison's DC power, and to this day a better method has not been impleme ... |
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Charles Dana, writing for The New York Sun, reports on "The Destruction of Tesla's Workshop" after it had burned to the ground. |
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Nikola Tesla, backed by Westinghouse, introduces the public to AC power by illuminating the World Columbian Exposition, a world's fair held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversayr of Columbus' discovery of the New World. |
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The first commercially successful AC electric power plant opens in Buffalo, NY. |
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Scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla is born in Smilja, Croatia |
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Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, is born |
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