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Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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The Wireless Power Transmission

In 19 o one, he decides to fully go after the wireless power transmission. That's going to be a majorly expensive project though, right? Right? He hadn't even received all of the hundred and 50 thousand dollars er yet from morgan so he wrote a series of letters to morgan asking first for the rest of his money, and then also for more money. And morgan basically just cut him off and said, you know what? This is actually a breach of contract. You're changing the direction of this company, and i'm pulling out. Tesla had to mortgage the tower in order to pay his debts at the waldwarf historia. Within a few years

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