Tesla Memorial Society of New York

Above: Nikola Tesla Street Corner on West 40th Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan, New York.

Above: Commemorative Plaque on Building (32 West 40 Street, Manhattan, New York), “The Engineers Club”, was erected in memory of famous American Engineers who helped America transform from a largely agricultural nation to an architectural and industrial empire. Nikola Tesla’s name is included on the plaque among other famous Americans. Susannah Norris-Lindsay, artist who designed the commemorative plaque, was instrumental in putting Nikola Tesla’s name on the plaque.

Above:  Plaque of Nikola Tesla on
Radio Wave Building.  Radio Wave Building located at 49 West 27th
Street (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue), Lower Manhattan. It was the
former Gerlach Hotel, where Tesla lived before the end of the century and
experimented with Radio Waves, in 1896.

Nikola Tesla’s Alternating Current Electricity is driving our civilization to progress – Nikola Tesla is “The Genius Who Lit The World”

Satellite Photo of “Earth at Night” – Tesla’s Electrical Lights over continents  was published in the National Geographic Magazine, November Issue 2004

Above: Earth at Night (click to enlarge).
Tesla’s Alternating Current is today lighting the globe.  Photo
by NASA satellites.

Above: Tesla Monument at
Niagara Falls (Canadian side), Queen Victoria Park, unveiled
on July 9, 2006.  Tesla is standing atop an AC motor, one of the
700 inventions he patented. The monument was the work of Canadian
sculptor Les Dryzdale.

Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls,
New York.  Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976. 
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara
Falls.  This was the final victory of Tesla’s Alternating Current
over Edison’s Direct Current.  The monument was the work of
Croatian sculptor Frane Krsinic.

Above: New York City, Manhattan.  Nikola Tesla lived and worked in New York City for almost 60 years.

Above: Tesla ashes were placed in a golden sphere, Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

Above: Nikola Tesla, showing the inventor in the effulgent glory of myriad tongues of electrical flame, New York Sunday World, 1894.

Above: Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich’s book “Theoria
Philosophiae Naturalis”, in front of the spiral coil of his
high-frequency transformer at East Houston St., New York

Above: The letterhead of Tesla’s business stationery recalls some of his more important inventions.

Above: Wardenclyffe Tower with electrical sparks.  Tesla built
this tower to transfer electricity without wires to electrify the entire
earth and to be the first broadcasting system in the world.

Above: The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, the place where Michael Pupin and  Nikola Tesla had funeral services.

Above: Transmitting Tesla Tower and Laboratory built in 1901-1905 by
Stanford White, famous architect and Tesla’s friend.  Located in
Wardenclyffe, Long Island.  This was to be the first broadcasting
system in the world.  Tesla also wanted to transmit electricity
from this Tower to the whole globe without wires using the Ionosphere. 
The source of the transmitted electricity was to be the Niagara Falls
power plant.

Above: Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in
Niagara Falls.  This was the final victory of Tesla’s Alternating
Current over Edison’s Direct Current.  This is the interior of
Power House No. 1 of the Niagara Falls Power Company (1895-1899).

Above: View of the main water-fall at the Niagara river.  Beginning
of the 20th century.

Above: Experimental Station at Colorado Springs where the first wireless
transmission experiments were preformed (1899-1900). 

Above: Tesla sits below the Tesla Coil in his Colorado Spring
Laboratory.  The coil creates millions of volts of electricity with
a frequency rate of 100,000 alterations per second.

Above: One of the original Tesla Electric Motors from 1888 which is
today the main power of for industry and household appliances. 
Tesla’s Electric Motor is one of the ten greatest inventions of all
times.

Above:  Tesla is the father of high frequency high voltage
electricity which is used today in radio and other communication
devices.  Here is a photo from Colorado Springs, Colorado (in
1899), illustrating the capacity of the oscillator to create electricity
of millions of volts and a frequency of 100,000 alternations per second.

Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated light bulb which
was illuminated without wires by an electromagnetic field from the
“Tesla Coil”.

The World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 was the World’s
Fair commemorating 400 years since Chrstopher Columbys set foot in the
New World.   This was the first great victory of Tesla’s
Alternating Current Electricity.  Tesla and George Westinghouse
started the electrification of the globe.

“From Immigrant to Inventor : Michael Pupin Remembered”: VHS

This film was produced in association with Columbia
University Physics Department.  This is one of the rare documentary
films about Michael Pupin, the history of Columbia University and the
history of American Immigration.   Participants of the film
are:

Prof. S.W. WU – Pupin Medalist.
Prof. Emeritus Samuel Devons – Chairman Physics Depart. Columbia University
Prof. Cyril M, Harris – President, New York Academy of Sciences Prof.
Rodney W. Nichols – New York Academy of Sciences
William Aspray – Director IEEE Archives
Hallee Haswell – Director, Columbia Library

Author of the Film: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic

Tesla Unit

Tesla Unit for magnetic flux density equation (T=W/m2) on Serbian money.

Tesla = Weber/m²

Nikola Tesla’s name has been honored with the
international unit of magnetic flux density called “Tesla”.  All
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines are calibrated with Tesla Unit
(from .2 Tesla to 9 Tesla).  MRI machines work on the principle of
a homogeneous magnet field.  Nikola Tesla discovered the Rotating
Magnetic Field in Budapest, 1882.  The Tesla Unit for magnetism was
established in 1956 in the Rathaus of Munich, Germany by the
International Electrotechnical Commission Committee in Action.

Because of the tremendous importance of the MRI
technology and widespread use of the MRI machines around the world,
which are all calibrated in Tesla Units, Tesla’s name connected with the
MRI will be known more and more in the future and the years to come.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is extremely
important for medical diagnosis of internal organs of the human body,
especially the diagnosis of cancer, tumors, degenerative diseases of the
brain and spinal cord. The modern diagnosis of the internal organs of
the human body would be today unthinkable without MRI.  MRI
machines are  widespread with many variations in size and capacity
all around the world.  The revenue of MRI machines sales was 1.46
billion dollars in 2002.  Revenue for MRI machine sales is expected
to increase in the following years.

MRI employs a strong homogeneous magnetic field and
specific radio frequency to which many elements, especially hydrogen
nuclei respond with radio frequency signals.  These signals are
analyzed by computer reconstruction algorithms.  The healthy tissue
and pathological tissue have different radio frequency signals and
produce different images on MRI.  Therefore enable us to make
diagnosis of pathological tissues of the body.

MRI has the advantage over CT scan, it uses no
ionizing radiation and does not cause cumulative harm.  The only
contraindication of those related to the high magnetic field. 
Magnetic-sensitive objects like pacemakers, watched and magnetic tapes
are contraindicated.

Website Editor: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic

Above: Decorations awarded to Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, President, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

 

Biography of Dr. Ljubo Vujovic