Nikola Tesla
Military Frontier, Austrian Empire
Nikola Tesla was a notable Serbian-American inventor from Smiljan in the Austrian Empire. - AsNotedIn
Nikola Tesla was a notable Serbian-American inventor from Smiljan in the Austrian Empire. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1884/06/00 | Persuaded by Edison manager Charles Batchelor, Nicola Tesla emigrates to the United States and begins working almost immediately at the Edison Machine Works (lost) on Manhattan's Lower East Side. | Life | Castle Clinton National Monument | New York City | |||
| 1884/12/00 | After six months, Nikola Tesla works quits the Edison Machine Works (lost) on Goerck Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, an overcrowded shop with a workforce of several hundred machinists, laborers, managing staff and 20 field engineers. | Work | |||||
| 1895/00/00 | Tesla erects receivers on the roof of the Gerlach, where he lives, c 30 blocks from transmission equipment on the roof of his lab at 33-35 S 5th Ave (lost). With Diaz Buitrago at the transmitter, Tesla proves his receivers can pickup electrical energy. | Home, Work | Radio Wave Building | Manhattan NYC | |||
| 1895/03/00 | After a fire destroys his 5th Avenue laboratory in New York City, Nikola Tesla uses Thomas Edison's work shop in Llewellyn Park. | Work | Thomas Edison National Historical Park | West Orange | |||
| 1895/03/13 | Nikola Tesla "The wizard and rival of Thomas A Edison was burned out. His shop (33-35 S 5th Ave), plant, all his apparatus for conducting the scientific experiments on which the gaze of the world is riveted these days, were destroyed." - NY Times | Work | |||||
| 1895/03/14 | After his South Fifth Avenue laboratory is destroyed, Tesla returns to the Hotel Gerlach and is not to be heard from for days. | Home, Work | Radio Wave Building | Manhattan NYC | |||
| 1897/00/00 | Tesla "lives in the Gerlach, a very quiet family hotel.... He starts for his laboratory before 9 o'clock in the morning, all day long he lives in his weird, uncanny world, reaching forth to capture new power to gain fresh knowledge." Franklin Chester | Home | Radio Wave Building | Manhattan NYC |
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