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Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York, received the "Republican Senatorial American Spirit Medal" on October 12, 2007

Website Editor: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic

Above: The "Republican Senatorial American Spirit Medal" awarded to Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Letter, signed by Senator John Ensign, NRSC Chariman, congratulating Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic on the "Republican Senatorial American Spirit Medal".

Above: Letter from the White House to Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Picture of President Bush and his wife sent to Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Christmas Card sent to Dr. Ljubomir Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York, from President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

Commemorative Plaque, "The Engineer's Club" was erected in Bryant Park Place, in Manhattan, on a neigboring building where Nikola Tesla received the Edison Medal in 1917. Nikola Tesla's name was included in the plaque along side many famous Americans.

Above: Commemorative Plaque on Building (32 West 40 Street), "The Engineers Club", was erected in memory of famous American Engineers who helped America transform from a largely agricultural nation to an architectural and industrial empire. Nikola Tesla's name is included on the plaque among other famous Americans.

Above: Susannah Norris-Lindsay, artist who created the "Engineer's Club" plaque and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, General Secretary, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Hall of Fame Plaque from North Carolina. Nikola Tesla was induced to the International Linemen's Museum and Hall of Fame, in North Carolina, for his contribution to electrical industry.

Tesla commemorative plaque unveiling ceremony at Hotel New Yorker on
July 10, 2001

Above: Tesla commemorative plaque on Hotel New Yorker erected July 10, 2001 by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Hotel New Yorker.

  Above: Serbian Orthodox Priests blessing the Tesla plaque.

Above:  Dr. Ljubo Vujovic Secretary General of the Tesla Memorial Society speaking at the ceremony.

A Visit to Tesla Tower (June 10, 1990)

Above: Group Photo from a visit to Tesla Tower, June 10, 1990 demanding the proclamation of Wardenclyffe Tower Site as a National landmark.  From left to right: Melvin Drossman, Boris Mardesic (with sun glasses), Peggy McKinnon Clark, Dr. Dushan Kosovic, Dr. Mariza Pezzulic, Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (organizer of the meeting), Slavka Bulajic, Mrs. Hochbruckner, Congressmen George Hochbruckner, William Terbo, Dr. David Dasic (Consul General of Yugoslavia)  and Dragoslav Pejic (Ambassador of Yugoslavia to United Nations).

Tesla Memorial Society of New York and The Nikola Tesla Committee organized a visit to the Tesla Tower in Shoreham, Long Island on June 10, 1990.  The famous Tesla Tower, so called Wardenclyffe Tower, was erected by Nikola Tesla on 1901 -1903 as the first broadcasting system in the world, and transmitting electrical energy without wires to the globe using the Ionosphere (the electrified upper part of the atmosphere of the earth important for transmitting radio waves around the globe).  Under the solar radiation, molecoles of the upper atmosphere are being constantly transmitted into ions.

The visit to the Tesla Tower was done with the intention to express our views that the Tesla Tower foundation be designed as a national historical site.  There are several Tesla Societies in Long Island today which are formed with the intention to build a Tesla Science Museum in Shoreham, Long Island.  Tesla's laboratory was designed by the famous American architect and Tesla's friend, Stanford White.  The laboratory is still standing in good condition.  In front of Tesla's laboratory, there is a foundation of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower which was an enormous structure underground connecting the Tower with the Atlantic Ocean.  J.P. Morgan, the richest and most powerful man of that time, was a financier of the Tesla Broadcasting system.  The Tower was designed as a world communications center and Nikola Tesla added to the project in that the tower would also be used for transmitting electrical energy without wires to the entire globe.  Tesla wanted to saturate the globe with electricity as a dynamo so that everyone on the surface of the globe could obtain electrical light just by sticking wires into the soil and a electrical bulb would light.  When J.P. Morgan heard about the Tesla project, he was asked: "How can we get money from the electricity which Tesla is supplying to every part of the world?"  After that Morgan cut the funds and the Tower was never finished.

Tesla wanted to bring electricity from the huge resources at Niagara Falls Power Plant and disperse it all around the globe.  What a magnificent project it was, however it was never finished.  The concept of telephone and telegraph communications, developed by Tesla on Long Island, is still the foundation of today's rapidly growing development of international and intercontinental wireless communications. 

The visit to Tesla Tower on June 10, 1990 was so successful that 10 United States  Congressmen and one Senator spoke in the American Congress about Nikola Tesla.  American Congresswomen Hon. Helen Delich Bentley had a beautiful speech about Nikola Tesla in the US Congress on July 10th 1990, celebrating the 134th birthday of Nikola Tesla. 

The International Conference on Global Warming in Kyoto, Japan has adopted Tesla's idea for clean energy as a solution to Global Warming and Global Pollution on December 9, 1997

Unveiling of Michael Pupin's bust, Columbia University, May 21, 2004

"Every time you make a long distance telephone call, tune your radio to a new station, or get x-rayed by your doctor, you are using one of the many practical inventions of Michael Pupin.  His inventions contribute substantially to our daily life" - Edward F. Bergman

"Everyone knows that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.. what Bell really invented was local telephone calls.  It was Michael Pupin who made long distance and international phone calls possible and the gadget that enabled it was the induction coil." - Dean Zvi Galil, Columbia University.

Michael Idvorsky Pupin was a Serbian-American inventor, a great educator, professor of Columbia University, an applied physicist, an important social figure in America at his time.  He was one of the great shining stars in the history of American science.

The ceremony of unveiling the bust started with a reception, followed by speeches, the unveiling of the bust and the showing of the film "From Immigrant to Inventor :Michael Pupin Remembered" about the life and times of Michael I. Pupin.  The film was produced by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York in collaboration with Columbia University (Author of the film: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic). 

The reception hall was full with Pupin and Mestrovic admirers alike. 

Above: Michael Idvorsky Pupin Bust, work of Ivan Mestrovic.  This bust was unveiled in Pupin Hall, Columbia University, New York City on May 21, 2004.

Above: Photo taken of Serbian Patriarch Pavle blessing the native soil of Micheal Pupin's home brought from Yugoslavia. Dr. Ljubo Vujovic is holding the soil. This soil was later dispersed over Pupin's grave.

Above: A tribute to Michael Pupin's Gravesite at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, 1992. Prof. Wu from Columbia University was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Prof Samuel Devons is a Professor Emeritus for Columbia University and long time Chairman of the Department of Physics at Pupin Hall.

Above: Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University, New York. This famous building was given the name "Pupin Physics Laboratories" after Pupin's death in 1935.  There are 29 Noble Prize winners who did their scientific work at this famous building. Significant scientific discoveries in the 20th century took place in this building.  The "Manhattan Project" which produced the first Atomic Bomb started with scientific research conducted in Pupin Physics Laboratories.

Columbia University has 61 Noble Prize winners which is unsurpassed in the history of science and research.  American President Eisenhower was also the President of Columbia University.

Above: Masters of the ceremony - Lalla R. Grimes, Administrative Coordinator Columbia Physics Department and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, General Secretary Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Columbia University Unveils Bronze Bust of Edwin Howard Armstrong and Michael Idvorsky Pupin on March 22, 2007 in the Engineering Building at Columbia University, New York

Above: Tony F. Heinz (left) Chair - Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia, Lalla Grimes (middle), Administrative Coordinator, Physics Deparmtent, with her Pupin Medal and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (right), Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: The Michael Pupin Bust created by renowned Serbian Sculptor Drinka Radovanovic.  This bust was a personal gift from Yugoslav President Dr. Vojislav Kostunica to Columbia University, New York.

Nikola Tesla Monument within Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls (Canadian side) was unveiled on July 9, 2006

Above: Tesla Monument at Niagara Falls (Canadian side), Queen Victoria Park, unveiled on July 9, 2006.  Tesla is standing atop an AC motor, one of the 700 inventions he patented. The monument was the work of Canadian sculptor Les Dryzdale.

Above: Les Drysdale, the famous Tesla monument sculptor with Dr. Ljubo Vujovic at the unveiling ceremony.

Above: Unveiling ceremony of the Tesla Monument in Victoria Park, July 9, 2006.  Rob Nicholson speaking, a Representative of the Canadian Government.