Nikola Tesla’s Time at the New Yorker Hotel
Nikola Tesla spent the last ten years of his life in rooms 3327 and 3328 of the New Yorker Hotel, holding annual birthday press conferences to announce wild new inventions living above the largest private power plant in the United States, and dying alone upstairs on January 7, 1943, after which the government seized his papers despite his American citizenship. This year, for the first time, HOPE convenes in that same building. This talk covers Tesla’s final decade under this roof, the hotel’s own remarkable machinery, the declassified FBI files, and the three individuals who spent their lives making sure none of it was forgotten: William Terbo, Tesla’s grandnephew and last direct-line relative; Dr. Ljubo Vujovic of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York; and Joe Kinney, the hotel’s longtime chief engineer and historian. All three individuals are sadly gone now, but this is the story of what they kept, told in the building where they kept it.
Plus there will be some long-awaited news from The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe!
Friday 1700 Crystal Ballroom