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Above: Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs Laboratory, 1899, seated in front of a magnifying transmitter with 20 million volts and high frequency electricity.

Commemorative Banquet for the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikola Tesla in Parma, Ohio, USA on June 4th, 2006

Requiem Service for Nikola Tesla in St. Sava Cathedral

Building of the "Nikola Tesla Serbian-American Center" in the city of Parma, Ohio

Tesla's concept of wireless transmission of electrical energy is still alive

"Tesla's Power Plant" at the site of Cleveland, Ohio is proposed by Donald Lesiak

Participants of the commemorative banquet are grateful to American President Bush for sending a letter congratulating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla. "America is proud of Nikola Tesla" said President Bush.

Above: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at the age of 38.

Above: Guest Speaker Donald Lesiak, former Consulting Aerospace Engineer at RCA on Apollo Descent Engine Control Assembly for Landing on Moon, speaking about the importance of Nikola Tesla's inventions for humanity.

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Donald Lesiak believes firmly that the transmission of electrical energy without wires for long distances and industrial quantities is quite possible, like Nikola Tesla proposed.  This belief is shared with Dr. James Corum, Distinguished Professor of West Virginia University and Board Member of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York.  In today's energy crisis, this concept of wireless transmission of electrical energy is very important. 

Dr. Lesiak wrote: "The transmission of wireless electricity through the air and ground is possible.  Tesla lit up 200 electric bulbs at the distance of 25 miles in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1899.  This wirelessly transmitted electricity could be used to power electric automobiles and other electrical vehicles without gasoline engines and gas tanks.  This could be done by installing an antenna and power receiver in the vehicles."

Tesla's Concept of Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy to Long Distances

Tesla Tower in Shoreham Long Island (1901 - 1917) meant to be the "World Wireless" Broadcasting system

Above: Tesla Tower at Shoreham Long Island, meant to be the first broadcasting system of the world and was to be used for transmission of electrical energy without wires to the entire globe.

Above: The newspaper articles explaining the multiple function of the Tesla Tower.  Many of today's technologies have originated from the Tesla-Wardenclyffe Tower concept.  World wireless telecommunication and wireless transmission of electrical energy was originately Tesla's concept.

A Visit to Tesla Tower (June 10, 1990)

Above: Group Photo from a visit to Tesla Tower, June 10, 1990 demanding the proclamation of Wardenclyffe Tower Site as a National landmark.  From left to right: Melvin Drossman, Boris Mardesic (with sun glasses), Peggy McKinnon Clark, Dr. Dushan Kosovic, Dr. Mariza Pezzulic, Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (organizer of the meeting), Slavka Bulajic, Mrs. Hochbruckner, Congressmen George Hochbruckner, William Terbo, Dr. David Dasic (Consul General of Yugoslavia)  and Dragoslav Pejic (Ambassador of Yugoslavia to United Nations).

Tesla Memorial Society of New York and The Nikola Tesla Committee organized a visit to the Tesla Tower in Shoreham, Long Island on June 10, 1990.  The famous Tesla Tower, so called Wardenclyffe Tower, was erected by Nikola Tesla on 1901 -1903 as the first broadcasting system in the world, and transmitting electrical energy without wires to the globe using the Ionosphere (the electrified upper part of the atmosphere of the earth important for transmitting radio waves around the globe).  Under the solar radiation, molecoles of the upper atmosphere are being constantly transmitted into ions.

The visit to the Tesla Tower was done with the intention to express our views that the Tesla Tower foundation be designed as a national historical site.  There are several Tesla Societies in Long Island today which are formed with the intention to build a Tesla Science Museum in Shoreham, Long Island.  Tesla's laboratory was designed by the famous American architect and Tesla's friend, Stanford White.  The laboratory is still standing in good condition.  In front of Tesla's laboratory, there is a foundation of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower which was an enormous structure underground connecting the Tower with the Atlantic Ocean.  J.P. Morgan, the richest and most powerful man of that time, was a financier of the Tesla Broadcasting system.  The Tower was designed as a world communications center and Nikola Tesla added to the project in that the tower would also be used for transmitting electrical energy without wires to the entire globe.  Tesla wanted to saturate the globe with electricity as a dynamo so that everyone on the surface of the globe could obtain electrical light just by sticking wires into the soil and a electrical bulb would light.  When J.P. Morgan heard about the Tesla project, he was asked: "How can we get money from the electricity which Tesla is supplying to every part of the world?"  After that Morgan cut the funds and the Tower was never finished.

Tesla wanted to bring electricity from the huge resources at Niagara Falls Power Plant and disperse it all around the globe.  What a magnificent project it was, however it was never finished.  The concept of telephone and telegraph communications, developed by Tesla on Long Island, is still the foundation of today's rapidly growing development of international and intercontinental wireless communications. 

The visit to Tesla Tower on June 10, 1990 was so successful that 10 United States  Congressmen and one Senator spoke in the American Congress about Nikola Tesla.  American Congresswomen Hon. Helen Delich Bentley had a beautiful speech about Nikola Tesla in the US Congress on July 10th 1990, celebrating the 134th birthday of Nikola Tesla. 

New Governor's Proclamation of "Nikola Tesla Day"

Above: Article in Serbian Newspaper "Vesti" about the Commemorative Banquet for the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikola Tesla at St. Sava Cathedral Hall in Parma, Ohio, USA on June 4, 2006.

Above: St. Sava Cathedral in Parma, Ohio.

Above: Reverend Zivojin Jakovljevic, Parish Priest.

Above: Divine Liturgy.

Above:  Requiem Service for Nikola Tesla.

Above: Mayor of the City of Parma, Dean Dipiero, who promised help in the building of the "Nikola Tesla Serbian -American Center" in Parma, Ohio.

Above: Alex Machaskee, former President/Publisher of "The Plain Dealer" newspaper and Master of the Ceremonies in St. Sava Cathedral.

Above: Guest Speaker at the banquet, Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, General Secretary, Tesla Memorial Society of New York, spoke enthusiastically about Nikola Tesla's discoveries and inventions.

Above: Guest Speaker Donald Lesiak, former Consulting Aerospace Engineer at RCA on Apollo Descent Engine Control Assembly for Landing on Moon, speaking about the importance of Nikola Tesla's inventions for humanity.

Above: Lunar Module.

Above: Description of the Lunar Module (Apollo 11 Spaceship).

Above: Man on the Moon.

Above: Donald Lesiak, former Consulting Aerospace Engineer at RCA on Apollo Descent Engine Control Assembly for Landing on Moon, with his wife.

Above: Paul Cosic, President of the Serbian-American Society of Nikola Tesla of Cleveland, with Serbian Orthodox Priests.

Above: Paul Cosic, Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Alex Machaskee (former President/Publisher of "The Plain Dealer" newspaper and Master of the Ceremonies) with Serbian Orthodox priests.

Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Reverend Zivojin Jakovljevic, and Alex Machaskee (Master of the Ceremonies) holding Governor's Proclamations proclaiming July 10th , "Nikola Tesla Day".

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