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What began as a trickle has become routine for Joseph Kinney, the chief building engineer and unofficial historian for the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, whom we profiled in November 2014. Several times a week, Kinney escorts visitors from around the world on a tour of the two hotel rooms and art deco surroundings where the father of alternating current power, Nikola Tesla, lived for the last 10 years...
Outside the 34th Street side of the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, it seems fitting that lightning cracks the sky as Joseph Kinney [above] points to a plaque recognizing that the father of AC power, Nikola Tesla, once lived at the hotel. That very few among the thousands of people walking by each day realize that the inventor and engineer once rivaled Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry...