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Above: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at the age of 38. Tesla's Achievements and Recognitions (Part 2) Colorado Springs, 1899 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: 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. Wardenclyffe Tower 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: 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. St John the Divine, New York City, location of Tesla's Funeral - January 12, 1943 The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City where Tesla funeral took place on January 12,1943. The following are places in New York City that are Tesla-related: (Photo) Hotel New Yorker & Tesla commemorative plaque is located at 8th Avenue and 34th Street, Manhattan. Tesla lived there for the last 10 years of his life, from 1933 - January 7, 1943, when he died. The Tesla commemorative plaque placed there on July 10th, 2001 honored Nikola Tesla's residence in the Hotel. The plaque is on the 34th Street side of the Hotel. (Photo) The Nikola Tesla Corner is located at the corner of West 40th Street and 6th avenue, Manhattan. (Photo) 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. He is the father of radio. A Tesla commemorative plaque was placed on the building, in 1977, to honor Tesla's work with radio waves. (Photo) The Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, with The American Museum of Immigration located inside the Statue of Liberty. Nikola Tesla was honor with the display of his photograph at the Museum of Immigration, alongside other famous immigrants such as Albert Einstein, eminent physicist, David Sarnoff, radio and television pioneer, Berry Fitzgerald, award winning actor, Igor Stravinsky, famous composer, George Papanicolau, father of cancer saving Pap-smear, Enrico Caruso, world renowned singer and other important people. The Statue of Liberty was not present in New York harbor when Tesla arrived in New York. The statue was erected two years later in 1886. Liberty Science Museum in New Jersey (across the Hudson by the Holland Tunnel exit), has a Tesla Coil in action public performance every hour, on the hour. Map of Shoreham, Long Island - where Nikola Tesla built the broadcasting system in the world. LaGuardia's Eulogy to Tesla Above: Mayor of the City of New York, Fiorello Laguardia, delivered a eulogy to Tesla broadcast on New York Radio, January 10, 1943. Tesla Corner The Nikola Tesla Corner is located at the corner of West 40th Street and 6th avenue, Manhattan Plaque on Hotel New Yorker Above: Tesla commemorative plaque on Hotel New Yorker erected July 10, 2001 by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Hotel New Yorker. Above: Tesla commemorative plaque on Hotel New Yorker erected July 10, 2001 by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Hotel New Yorker. Above: Serbian Orthodox Priests blessing the Tesla plaque. Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic Secretary General of the Tesla Memorial Society speaking at the ceremony. Tesla and Radio As early as 1892, Nikola Tesla created a basic design for radio. On November 8, 1898 he patented a radio controlled robot-boat. Tesla used this boat which was controlled by radio waves in the Electrical Exhibition in 1898, Madison Square Garden. Tesla's robot-boat was constructed with an antenna, which transmitted the radio waves coming from the command post where Tesla was standing. Those radio waves were received by a radio sensitive device called coherer, which transmitted the radio waves into mechanical movements of the propellers on the boat. Tesla changed the boat's direction, with manually operated controls on the command post. Since this was the first application of radio waves, it made front page news, in America, at that time. Most of us, think of Guglielmo Marconi as the father of radio, and Tesla is unknown for his work in radio. Marconi claimed all the first patents for radio, something originally developed by Tesla. Nikola Tesla tried to prove that he was the creator of radio but it wasn't until 1943, where Marconi's patents were deemed invalid; however, people still have no idea about Tesla's work with radio. 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. He is the father of radio. A Tesla commemorative plaque was placed on the building, in 1977, to honor Tesla's work with radio waves. NIKOLA TESLA AND THE EXPLORATION OF COSMOS Nikola Tesla is discoverer of radio and remote control, so important for computer guided spaceships from mission control centers. Nikola Tesla is the father of radio astronomy, in his laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1899 he recorded cosmic radio waves. The cosmic radio waves were emitted from hydroxyl molecules of interstellar gas clouds and the envelopes of Red Giant Stars. They are very important for the exploration of cosmos. The BBC film Masters of the Ionosphere features Nikola Tesla as the first scientist who utilized the ionosphere for the scientific purposes. The ionosphere is the ionic-charged part of the atmosphere, important for the transmission of radio waves. Nikola Tesla signaled Mars by radio, he spent fifty years of his life to establish communications among of the planets by means of radio. This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the interactive program "Welcome to the Planets" which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM Version 1.5 in December 1995. On July 4, 1997 the NASA Explorer robot Sojourner landed on Mars and became the first radio-guided vehicle to roam the surface of the Red Planet. Remotely controlled exploration of the cosmos began 100 years ago when Nikola Tesla demonstrated the invention of the robot in New York City. In 1898 he filed and was granted a patent which described radio remote control for use in guided vehicles. Space exploration developed from this first building block. Tesla publicly demonstrated his first working model of a robot guided by radio waves. This device was unveiled to many astonished viewers at the Electrical Exposition held at Madison Square Garden in May 1898. This was front page news in America at that time. It was the first time that the radio waves were used to guide a movement of a robot-eleven years before Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radio in 1909. This historic moment at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898 showed what marvels could be achieved by using radio waves. It was the beginning of robots and robotics, radio guided missiles and remote control. The radio communications and the computer guided spaceships from mission control centers are based on Tesla’s principal of radio remote control for use in guided vehicles. Nikola Tesla built a laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1899, to experiment with high frequency electricity and other phenomena. In that laboratory he received and recorded on his sensitive instruments, cosmic radio waves. He announced that he received extraterrestrial radio signals. The scientific community in 1899 did not believe him, because knowledge of cosmic radio signals did not exist at that time. Nikola Tesla and the Exploration of Cosmos Posters Click here for Tesla's Achievements and Recognitions (Page 3)