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.
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