[Press Release from NF Library]
Tesla at Niagara Lecture Series Features Nikola Tesla and Vivekananda
Joan Johnson, the President of the Board of Trustees of Tesla at Niagara Museum, will give a lecture on “Tesla and Vivekananda: Bridging Western Science with Eastern Philosophy” on Wednesday, June 3, 2014 at 6 p.m. in the second floor auditorium of the Niagara Falls Public Library, 1425 Main Street. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Ms. Johnson is a local artist and illustrator who has studied Eastern Philosophy and Meditation with Fri Swami Rama, a great sage of the Himalayas.
Swami Vivekananda was born in India in 1863. A Hindu Sage who came to the West to lecture on Eastern Philosophy, Swami Vivekananda introduced Eastern Philosophy at the World Parliament of Religions, in connection with World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. He is the first known Yogi to bring Eastern traditions to the West. Nikola Tesla attended that lecture and is pictured with Swami Vivekananda on the far right of the picture.
Tesla at Niagara Museum is a group organized to preserve the former Transformer House on Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls. The mission of Tesla at Niagara is “To establish a world-class museum and tourist destination in Niagara Falls, NY that showcases the life and work of the world renowned inventor Nikola Tesla and preserves the history of the Edward Dean Adams Power Plant and the Niagara Falls Power Company.”
The organization has been in talks with the owner of the Transformer House, Peter Fontanarosa, for its preservation and possible use as a museum. Possibilities include sale or long-term lease to Tesla at Niagara Museum of this National Register of Historic Places listed building.
Tesla at Niagara Museum is initiating a membership campaign for those interested in the mission of TANM. Cost of the 2015 Charter Membership is $15. Tesla at Niagara is having a series of lecture on subjects relating to Tesla and the Niagara Falls Power Company.
For more information please call (716) 425-4005.
Are you sure that it was Tesla? The Vedanta Society in Boston has identified that gentleman as a French pastor G. Bonet Maury. I have heard that Tesla attended the Chicago Fair, but do not know if he was at the Parliament of Religions.
The gentleman does look a lot like Tesla.