Tesla Notes 15: Niagara, and the Fire on Fifth Avenue (1893 to 1896)
The egg that stands at Chicago, a laboratory lost to fire, shadows through forty feet, and the wheel at Niagara sending its power twenty-six miles to Buffalo.
Tesla's notebook, 1893 to 1896: why Niagara ran at 25 periods, why 11,000 volts saved the copper, and what a fire takes from an inventor and what it leaves.
Nikola Tesla
November 5, 2026
25 min