Nikola Tesla was born to a Serbian family in the village of Smiljan, Croatia. He was a brilliant child who when only 12 years old, upon seeing a lithograph of Niagara Falls declared that one day he would put a wheel under it and Power the World.
Working with George Westinghouse, Tesla made the use of alternating electrical current a practical and efficient system for delivering power. The power plants of Niagara Falls were based on his inventions. The first of these new plants began generating energy in 1895 and his technology is still at work today.
Nikola Tesla was credited with hundreds of inventions in his lifetime but it is his work on electricity that harnessed the force of Niagara Falls and forever changed the way we live.
To claim this virtual cache, please do the two following things.
1) Behind Tesla's left foot, there is a coin embedded in the AC motor that the statue is standing on. Please send me the year of the coin through my message centre.
2) Post a picture of you and/or group. If you do not want to show yourself in the picture, please post at picture from your point of view from GZ.
Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.