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Las Vegas after Nikola Tesla

The Tesla Memorial Society of New York is urging our visitors worldwide to sign this petition found at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/699013448 (click on the link above)

This petition is endorsed by international Tesla Websites:
www.teslasociety.com
www.teslaforum.com
www.tesladownunder.com
www.teslasociety.ch

Above: Tesla Society of Switzerland endorses the Tesla petition to name a street after Tesla in Las Vegas, found at www.teslasociety.ch

Above: Tesla forum from Western Australia endorses the Tesla petition to name a street after Tesla in Las Vegas, found at www.teslaforum.com

Above: Tesla Coil in Action, courtesy of Peter Terren of teslaforum.com  from Australia. 
His website  www.tesladownunder.com supports the Tesla petition for Tesla Street in Las Vegas.

Above: The Nikola Tesla Museum (Website) in Belgrade

Electric Power Historical Museum of Yokohama
(photo from Tesla Society of Switzerland - www.teslasociety.ch)

We invite other Tesla Websites to endorse the Tesla Petition for a Tesla street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Above: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at the age of 38.

Petition to name a street in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA after Nikola Tesla

Petition to name a street in Las Vegas after Nikola Tesla.

2006 was the sesquicentennial of the birth of one of the world’s greatest geniuses: the Serbian-American inventor, Nikola Tesla.
20th Century progenitor, his many inventions include: radio, alternating current, fluorescent lighting, radar, remote control and hydroelectric power. Though few human beings have not been impacted by his many inventions, few people are aware of the person who literally transformed our way of life at the turn of the 20 Century.  It is in this spirit of recognizing this forgotten genius that I encourage the leaders of the City of Las Vegas to name a street in his honor especially as there is already a street named after Thomas Edison. Tesla’s inventions have so greatly impacted Las Vegas via Hoover dam, air conditioning, neon lighting on the strip, radar, radio, remote control, and many others.  Las Vegas, the city of lights is literally illuminated today because of Tesla’s invention of alternating current.

-Prof. Michael Pravica

Governor's Proclamation of Nevada Proclaiming "Nikola Tesla Day" on July 10th

Click here for more Governors Proclamations of "Nikola Tesla Day"

Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current Electricity is driving our civilization to progress - Nikola Tesla is the genius who lit the world

Satellite Photo of "Earth at Night" - Tesla's Electrical Lights over continents  was published in the National Geographic Magazine, November Issue 2004

Above: Earth at Night, Click to Enlarge

Above: Nikola Tesla's personal exhibition - Neon Lights - Columbian Exposition, 1893.  Tesla discovered neon lights.

Above: Tesla's Induction Motor is considered one of the ten greatest discoveries of all time.

Above: Tesla Monument at Niagara Falls (click here for opening ceremony) (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 known Canadian sculptor Les Dryzdale.

Above: Les Drysdale, the famous Tesla monument sculptor with Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York, at the unveiling ceremony at the Tesla Monument at Niagara Falls, Canadian side, Queen Victoria Park on July 9, 2006.

Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls, New York.  Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976. 
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls.  This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating Current over Edison's Direct Current.  The monument was the work of Croatian sculptor Frane Krsinic.   

Above: Niagara Falls, New York - the first great hydroelectric power plant in the world, 1895.  This was the final victory of Tesla/Westinghouse Alternating Current over Edison's Direct Current.

Tesla Coil

Tesla discovered the Tesla Coil in 1891.  At the turn of the century, Tesla's Coil was an integral part of every physics laboratory.   Tesla's Coil is used today in radio, television and many other applications.

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Above: Tesla Coil in Action, courtesy of Peter Terren of teslaforum.com  from Australia.  His website can be found at www.tesladownunder.com.

Las Vegas
- City of Light, Electricity and Beauty

Without Tesla's discovery of alternating current electricity, induction motor (running elevators) and neon lights (light signs), Las Vegas could not exist.

Edison Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Above: Edison Street in Las Vegas.  A street should be named after the great inventor Nikola Tesla also.  Photo curiosity of Dr. Michael Pravica.

Above: Edison Street in Las Vegas.  A street should be named after the great inventor Nikola Tesla also.  Photo curiosity of Dr. Michael Pravica.

Las Vegas - City of Light, Electricity and Beauty