Fodor's Expert Review Nikola Tesla Museum
Nikola Tesla, the enigmatic inventor, engineer, and futurist, is best known for his work on the modern alternating electric current (AC) supply system. He's also renowned for his feud with Thomas Edison. According to Tesla, early in his career, while working for Edison Machine Works, Thomas Edison promised him fifty thousand dollars to fix the company's inefficient direct current generators. When Tesla succeeded Edison said, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." He instead offered a ten dollar a week raise (Tesla was currently making 18 dollars a week). Infuriated, Tesla quit on the spot and the two remained enemies for the rest of their lives. By the time Nikola Tesla died in 1943, he was 86 years old, had amassed over 100 patents, and made significant contributions to the study of electricity, X-Ray, and radio. There were even rumors of a Nobel Prize in 1915 for both Tesla and Edison, but their long-standing animosity kept them out of the running. Tesla died and was cremated... READ MORE
Nikola Tesla, the enigmatic inventor, engineer, and futurist, is best known for his work on the modern alternating electric current (AC) supply system. He's also renowned for his feud with Thomas Edison. According to Tesla, early in his career, while working for Edison Machine Works, Thomas Edison promised him fifty thousand dollars to fix the company's inefficient direct current generators. When Tesla succeeded Edison said, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." He instead offered a ten dollar a week raise (Tesla was currently making 18 dollars a week). Infuriated, Tesla quit on the spot and the two remained enemies for the rest of their lives. By the time Nikola Tesla died in 1943, he was 86 years old, had amassed over 100 patents, and made significant contributions to the study of electricity, X-Ray, and radio. There were even rumors of a Nobel Prize in 1915 for both Tesla and Edison, but their long-standing animosity kept them out of the running. Tesla died and was cremated in New York City but his remains, and his life's work, are celebrated here. Housed in a 1929 residential villa designed by architect Dragisa Brasovan, the museum's seven rooms are packed with Tesla's personal belongings—2,000 books and journals, 1,500 photographs, and 1,000 plans and drawings. You can even pay your respect to Tesla's ashes in a gold-plated spherical urn.
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