On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla died alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. He was 86 years old. A maid found him two days later after leaving a "do not disturb" sign on his door. The official cause was a coronary thrombosis. But the deeper truth was quieter: years of isolation, poverty, and a world that had moved on without the man who contributed to its functioning.
He was the inventor of alternating current, the system that still circulates through our homes. He was a pioneer in wireless transmission, radio technology, and electric motors. He held hundreds of patents and envisioned id
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