Nikola Tesla Legacy Corridor

ATTENTION TEACHERS, EVENT ORGANIZERS, HISTORY BUFFS, ETC: Nikola Tesla was integral in the illumination of our planet by means of alternating current electricity. His crowning achievement occurred right here in Western New York in 1896 when electricity generated at Niagara Falls passed through North Tonawanda on to Buffalo, making Buffalo, NY the world’s first electric city.

If you or someone you know might be interested in scheduling a dynamic, visually enhanced lecture about the life and legacy of Nikola Tesla and his direct association with WNY, please peruse the information contained in the link below and contact us, the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council, to schedule a complimentary program. We have presented dozens of lectures at museums, schools, historical societies and community centers since 2017. We are teachers who love to teach and Nikola Tesla is an amazing subject to explore. Please share this post with friends and colleagues interested in science, history and education.

BUFFALO NIAGARA NIKOLA TESLA COUNCIL

https://www.tlcfortesla.org/events

Facebook is filled with "information" about Nikola Tesla be it accurate, hyperbolic, or outright false. What he did to change the world was done right here in Western New York. And here is what some of us did to show appreciation to him where it first happened.

https://www.buffalorising.com/2023/11/national-grid-transformer-building-restoration-project/

National Grid Transformer Building Restoration Project - Buffalo Rising For those people driving along Twin Cities Highway and crossing Robinson Rd. over the last month (Twin Cities is the continuation of Colvin north of the 290 expressway.) you may

Official OPENING this morning! Here's the Before and After.
Thank you National Grid!
Beautiful little Pocket Park honoring Nikola Tesla and the birth of the Electric Age. Historic building survives from the time of Westinghouse and Tesla! Built in 1895 as a transformer house, it carried long distance AC power transmission from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, NY on November 16, 1896
LOCATION: The corner of Robinson Rd. and Twin Cities Highway in North Tonawanda, NY. Go down and check it out. It features gorgeous night time illumination.

Achievements of Nikola Tesla highlighted at History Museum speaker series Francis Lestingi, of the Tesla Legacy Corridor, focused on Tesla's legacy and local efforts to recognize them.

A Nikola Tesla Legacy Corridor visitor all the way from Florida!
(Downtown Buffalo Nikola Tesla Park)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-i96FJjP8
Thank you Pete Gallivan at WGRZ-TV for this "Unknown Stories of Western New York" piece on the restoration and historical enhancements at the landmarked 1896 North Tonawanda transformer building. This well preserved building was a key link in the AC power system linking Niagara Falls and Buffalo developed by George Westinghouse using Nikola Tesla's patents.

Unknown Stories of WNY: Little-known North Tonawanda landmark important link in electrifying the wor The transformer house was a part of working to transmit electricity generated from Niagara Falls.

WESTERN NEW YORK is known for something more than Generational Snow Storms and Blizzards. It is the place where
Nikola Tesla’s spark that lit the entire world with long-distance Alternating Current was initially lit. In appreciation, fellow New Yorkers have created a Triptych Tribute to Nikola Tesla where it all first happened; where the modern electrified world first began here in WESTERN NEW YORK !

Thank you National Grid for this wonderful and historical improvement to this important surviving structure from the beginning of the Electric Age.
National Grid of New York has wonderfully enhanced its historic 1896 North Tonawanda Niagara Falls Power Transfer Station with beautiful graphics. Learn about the "Making of the Tesla Legacy Corridor"
in the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council's Lecture Series: See the notifications.

Everyone is invited to the next Lecture in the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council’s Lecture Series. Learn about the man who changed the world that started here in Western New York. Learn and Be Proud!

Biggest assembly of visitors so far to the Tesla Coil monument in Gratwick Riverside Park- The Blues and Rock n' "Roll" Wednesdays group biked the Tesla Legacy Corridor starting at Old Man River. Thank you for sharing, Robert Nowinski.

The nonprofit Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council, Inc proudly announces its brand new website. Here is the direct link:

www.tlcfortesla.org

New York City has a corner. Buffalo, NY has a park

Now OPEN!
Visitors worldwide welcome!

BUFFALO RISING has published an article on our Nikola Tesla Legacy Corridor. Take a look: https://www.buffalorising.com/2022/07/tlc-for-nikola-tesla/

The Society of Gilders has graciously published an update in their "Gilders Tip" magazine on the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council's "TESLA LEGACY CORRIDOR."

More than a century and a quarter ago, Buffalo became the first city on the planet to be powered by AC electricity through the genius of Nikola Tesla; and it has taken a century and a quarter for us to acknowledge and appreciate what Tesla has done for our civilization.

Tracing the flow of alternating current from Niagara Falls through North Tonawanda and on to Buffalo, the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council has created the Tesla Legacy Corridor here in Western New York, the epicenter of Tesla’s great work. And here today with our elegant Tesla statue we are announcing the creation of the first and only park in the United States named in his honor.

More than 126 years ago, it took the Common Council of the City of Buffalo over a year and a half to approve the reception of AC electricity for Buffalo. Three years ago we petitioned Common Council to name the Park and they agreed and we are most grateful to the Council for creating another first for Buffalo - the first and only in the entire United States - Nikola Tesla Park!

Thank you Serbian Consul General.

The Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council, Inc (BNNTC members: Martin McGee, Paul Swisher, Stephen J Lestingi, and Francis S Lestingi, PhD) has officially announced the establishment of Nikola Tesla Park at Main and North Division Streets in Buffalo, NY. The Park is the culmination of the Nikola Tesla Legacy Corridor in Western New York.

As a tribute of appreciation to Nikola Tesla, the BNNTC created the Tesla Legacy Corridor
in this region where Tesla made his transformative accomplishments. Since 1896 AC electricity
has flowed from Niagara Falls to North Tonawanda and on to Buffalo, the first location on the
planet to be electrified; yet, there has never been any public acknowledgement of the civilization
transformation that started right here.

At Niagara Falls, the birthplace of the electric age for the planet, there was no information
about Tesla to accompany the statue that was donated by Yugoslavia in 1976.
The BNNTC designed and donated an attractive information panel describing Tesla and
what he did to enhance our civilization. It now accompanies the statue, so visitors from around
the world can learn more about our fellow New Yorker.

Three-miles from the still extant North Tonawanda Transformer House that sent AC electricity
from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, the BNNTC designed and gifted a monumental, stylized art
structure of a Tesla Coil to the City of North Tonawanda which is now the centerpiece of
Gratwick-Riverside Park.

As a third and culminating tribute to Tesla, in Buffalo, NY, the first Electric City on the planet,
the BNNTC designed and donated an elegant 7-ft bronze statue along with a beautiful
information panel for Nikola Tesla Park. The BNNTC acknowledges, with gratitude, the support
of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo for designating the park Nikola Tesla Park
which is the first and only park named in Nikola Tesla’s honor in the entire United States.

The Nikola TESLA LEGACY CORRIDOR is Complete!

On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 the Buffalo Niagara Nikola Tesla Council, Inc brings to fructification the long overdue,
powerful and profound, elegant and educational Triptych Tribute to Fellow New Yorker Nikola Tesla where it all took place right here in Western New York.

Join us as we Unveil our giant stylized art structure Tesla Coil in the Park, the culmination of our TLC for Nikola, the Tesla Legacy Corridor.