New Yorkers know what they know about Nicola Tesla in the poll, and then named the corner between Sixth Avenue and 40th Street, even to the questions of “who is that” and “what’s that weird name?”

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A section of Manhattan on the corner of America Avenue (6th Avenue) and 40th Street has been named after Tesla since 1994. In that area of ​​Bryant Park, he used to feed the pigeons every day as he walked from the New Yorker Hotel where he had stayed in recent years to the City Library (New York Public Library).

Nearby was the Engineers’ Club on 40th Street, where he received the Edison Medal in 1917. A plaque was erected in the building in honor of “American engineers who helped transform America into an architectural and industrial empire in the 19th century.”

Tesla’s name is next to the name of the 31st U.S. president, Engineer Herbert Hoover, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Lindbergh – the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic, and Andrew Carnegie – businessman and philanthropist. Hall and the University Library in Belgrade, and he is still on the Forbes list of the richest men in history.

Everyone who blocked Tesla’s corner still didn’t want to talk in front of the camera. There were New Yorkers born in China, Colombia, South Africa, India, and other parts of the United States, all of whom, although they know the greatest minds in the world, and without anyone’s inventions, they add that New York would not be a “never-sleeping city” and that Tesla would not have taken its rightful place outside of scientific circles.

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The first person to ask says that she has to be honest, and she admits that she knows nothing about the person so called. For some, Tesla is a weird name, or a name associated with a car and Ilona Masca.

The Indian-born New Yorkers enthusiastically reply that Tesla is a famous scientist, emphasizing that the world needs to know more about him.

The young Chinese man says – he was a beginner of electricity.

– I study physics, I know a lot about him, he is responsible for all the important patents, he has all the achievements and major achievements as an engineer, he added that people still know more about the mask founded by Tesla. Car Company.

In his opinion, more people related to science know about Tesla. “He is known in scientific circles,” Thai said, adding that he had heard that Edison had stolen some of Tesla’s patents and ideas.

Many of the respondents ulate that Tesla was born “somewhere in Europe” and “somewhere in Austria”, but for someone born in South Africa everything is clear.

– He is a Serb, Edison was his opponent, he worked on the wireless transmission of electricity – as he says, the person working on electricity. After all, Edison has gained all the fame and all the credit, he added.

Another New Yorker says he does not know where he was born, but Tesla is more important than Edison.

I think everyone knows about Edison, no one knows about Tesla – said the middle-aged man, and Elon Musk helped change things.

“But I think he’s still in Edison’s shadow,” he added.

A Colombian living in California says that many people today use Tesla’s patents.

– He is from Europe, but I do not know exactly where, people still do not know much about him, but because of the car they know more than before – she said.

An American accountant from New Jersey says he wants to know more about Tesla and that he is more than an inventor.

– He lived and died at the New Yorker Hotel on 34th Street – She said she did not know why the corner was named after him.

Tesla was a “genius”, says a young man who completed European and Russian history.

– Edison stole his ideas. He was completely challan, but Americans like to romanticize the myth about his (Edison) contribution, and Tesla was a genius. I know people from Eastern Europe are being mistreated, and this is the way it is in this country today, ”said the young man who spoke to the Thanjavur team during Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brunabic’s visit to New York.

Tesla’s memory has also been preserved at the New Yorker Hotel, not far from Bryant Park, where he has lived for the past ten years.

The hotel, which housed a number of dignitaries from John Kednadi to Mohammed Ali, had its own power plant for the first time, and in 1977 set up a board that wrote it; “Tesla died here in January 1943, at the age of 87. He was a great Yugoslav-American scientist who introduced America and the world to the modern era of the Industrial Revolution through his discoveries.”

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Room 3327 (where he lived at 3328), where he worked on the 33rd floor, is officially called Tesla’s Room, and his achievements are inscribed on a plaque at the entrance, including a reminder of the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant.

Tesla had four official formal laboratories in New York, where he lived for six decades, but only a fifth was saved on Long Island, and now there is the Tesla Science Center Warden Cliff (TSCW).

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