Nikola Tesla
1856 · 1943
“He heard the hum of the coming world.”
Kept by Here After All · open to visitors
Their story
Nikola Tesla was born at midnight between two days in 1856, in a village in Lika, during a summer storm. He carried the lightning with him ever after.
His alternating current turned distant falling water into city light. In Colorado Springs he sat calmly in a room of artificial thunder, listening. At Wardenclyffe he raised a tower to give the whole world its signals, decades before the world knew to want them.
He died in a New York hotel room with pigeons at the window and a hundred notebooks of unfinished morning. Much of the modern day still runs on his patience.
A tribute, kept by Here After All.
Standing here now
You are standing at Nikola's plot. Whoever arrives will see you here.
Words spoken here stay only with those standing here. Nothing is recorded.
Remembrances
Where the family and those who loved Nikola gather, post, and return. Visitors may leave a tribute in the family's keeping.
"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain." From My Inventions, 1919.
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." From My Inventions, 1919.
"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.'" From The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Magazine, 1900.
Washington reads of the Edison Medal, presented to him the evening before by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
The Edison Medal, 1917, for meritorious achievement in his early original work in polyphase and high frequency electrical currents.
Patent 645,576, filed in 1897. A system for sending power through the air itself.
The apparatus for transmitting electrical energy, patented 1907. The tower's heart, drawn plainly.
Wardenclyffe rising over Long Island, about 1902, the cupola still to come.
Wardenclyffe rising, 1904. A tower built for a world that arrived a century late.
Among his instruments. He preferred the company of ideas that answered back.
Colorado Springs, 1899. The magnifying transmitter at work, its keeper unbothered by the storm he made.