This past week....I got hooked onto looking up the last twenty years of Tesla. So the story usually went...from 1927 on....he was in some cheapo-slum-like hotel, and just marginally surviving.
Well....NO.
Around 1927....in NY City, they started to build the New Yorker Hotel....which was the exclusive 'brand' of hotels in the city.
Early 1930s....Tesla is set up in the hotel....two rooms....33rd floor....costly monthly rate. One room for sleeping....one room for office/'research'.
Who paid the bill? Westinghouse (the company).
The three generators in the basement? This story is never fully detailed. One was enough (at the time/era) to supply all the power needs of the city of New York. It's never clear why three were built into the building.
When Trump's uncle came to pick up the research 'boxes'? Most people agree....what was returned to relatives....was a minor portion of what Trump picked up.
The last decade of Tesla's life? I think he was still toying with communications (long-distance).
Why the dilapidated hotel bogus story? Yeah, that part is now in my mind.....bogus and made-up....for some odd reason.
a). Perhaps, the story they want us to believe is 'Mister Tesla was destitute, so he burned his research for heat'?
ReplyDeleteOr 'so poor, he sold his equipment for scrap'?
Continuing the thought, propagandizing some vague allegations of 'poor money management skills' could lead the unworshed masses to extrapolate 'that would definitely explain the failure of integrating his research into every home on the planet'?
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b) My money is still on hollow-moon lizards.
I think Nic was a fringe 'koo-koo' lizard and not lizardy enough for the other lizards to accept?
So the head lizard encouraged him to migrate -- ILLxGxLLY, I might add -- to our humble abode, where he immediately discovered the devil's weed and, drooling into his pillow, slept most of his day.