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Nikola Tesla Year in 2006
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Above: Westinghouse and Tesla Poster entitled "Perfect Partnership"

To: The Government of Serbia

Subject: Proposal to name a street in Belgrade, "George Westinghouse Street"

CC: American Embassy in Belgrade

New York, January 6, 2006

The Year 2006 was proclaimed "Nikola Tesla Year".  In this year we are celebrating 150 years of the birth of Nikola Tesla, the great scientist and inventor, who worked with George Westinghouse.  Tesla & Westinghouse started the electrification of America and the world after the first major hydroelectric power plant was built on Niagara Falls in 1895.

The famous Columbian Exposition in 1893, when America celebrated 400 years of the discovery of America by Columbus, was lit up with Tesla-Westinghouse polyphase alternating current electricity.

Above: Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor coated wireless light bulb which he developed in the 1890's, half a century before fluorescent lamps come into use.

Above: Nikola Tesla upon his arrival in the Untied States of America after 1884.

Above: View of the main water-fall at the Niagara river.  Beginning of the 20th century.

Above: One of the original induction motors demonstrated by Tesla in his historic lecture before AIEE at Columbia University, on 16th of May 1888.  This motor of 1/2 HP has been given as a gift to Prof. Anthony during Tesla's visit to London in 1892.

Above: Alternating electric current generator, March 1891.

Above: Representatives of Westinghouse Electric Company with Tesla explaining his alternator.

Above: Representatives of Westinghouse Electric Company with Tesla explaining his alternator.

Above: Representatives of Westinghouse Electric Company with Tesla explaining his alternator.