Over a period of several months, Tesla tests numerous models of steam turbines at the Waterside Station of the New York Edison Company. When interviewed about the tests, Tesla stated, "In one of them the disks are only nine inches in diameter and the whole working part is two inches thick. With steam as the propulsive fluid it develops 110 horse power, and could do twice as much."
Gaining some initial success with his turbines, Tesla relocates his office to the prestigious 48-story Metropolitan Tower, which was the world's tallest building at the time.
Mark Twain died of a heart attack in Redding, Connecticut, one day after Halley's Comet's closest approach to Earth. Years later, Tesla, near his own death, would attempt to send money to Twain by messenger.
In an article entitled "Tesla's Tidal Wave To Make War Impossible," from "English Mechanic and World of Science," Tesla states that his magnifying transmitter has obtained rates of 25 million horsepower.
It had been just over ten years since Tesla lectured on X-rays before the New York Academy of Sciences when they elected him as an active member.
Eager to locate alternate funding for the Wardenclyffe project, Tesla opens an office at 165 Broadway, which is now 1 Liberty Plaza, and begins work on other inventions such as propulsion systems and the vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
The 1909 Nobel Prize for physics is shared between Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy." Tesla is furious and intensifies his long battle to correct the injustice.
An 18-inch Tesla turbine with the cover removed to show the rotor
Because of his involvement in a love triangle, White was shot and killed while attending the opening of Madison Square Garden's roof show in the building he had designed, leaving Wardenclyffe as his final creation.
Renowned architect, Stanford White.
In an article published on his 50th birthday, Tesla announced his bladeless turbine to the world. The invention was based on adhesion and viscosity, two fundamental properties of all fluids.
Tesla made great efforts to obtain funding for the Wardenclyffe project after J.P. Morgan withdrew his support, but was unsuccessful. Unable to pay his employees, he was forced to lay them off and construction of the tower ceases.
Tesla's air-friction speedometer manufactured by the Waltham Company.
Tesla was contracted by Waltham Watch Company to build the world's first and only air-friction speedometer, which he also patented. It was used in Packard, Lincoln and Pierce-Arrow luxury cars.