an international competition.In 1994, acting on the advice of the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a formal nomination process was initiated by the Tesla Wardenclyffe Project seeking placement of the Wardenclyffe laboratory-office building and the Tesla tower foundation on both the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places. This would result in the creation of a monument to Tesla out of the Wardenclyffe site itself.[117]Portrayals in popular cultureMain article: Nikola Tesla in popular cultureNikola Tesla has appeared in popular culture as a character in books, films, radio, TV, music, live theatre, comics and video games. The lack of recognition received by Tesla during his own lifetime has made him a tragic and inspirational character well suited to dramatic fiction. The impact of the technologies invented by Tesla is a recurring theme in several types of science fiction.See also Electronics portal List of Tesla patentsElectrical ExperimenterTimeline of low-temperature technologyReferencesNotes ^ Bock-Luna 2007, p. 53^ "Electrical pioneer Tesla honoured". BBC News. 2006-07-10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5167054.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-15. ^ "Nikola Tesla - electrical engineer and inventor". Serbian Unity Congress. Archived from the original on 2008-02-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20080219051318/http://www.serbianunity.net/people/tesla/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-15. ^ Valone, Thomas (2002). Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature: Tesla's Science of Energy. Adventures Unlimited Press. p. 102. ISBN 1931882045. http://books.google.com/?id=ZNqo1zaZRTYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Harnessing+the+Wheelwork+of+Nature:+Tesla%27s+Science+of+Energy#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 21 November 2010. ^ Robert Lomas (1999-08-21). "Spark of genius". Independent Magazine. http://www.robertlomas.com/Tesla/Independent_Article.html. Retrieved 2008-07-29. ^ Bennett, Scott (2007). Encyclopedia of Energy. ISBN 818994052X. http://books.google.com/?id=DZXhE38wOKoC&pg=PT59&dq=tesla+death+hotel+room+alone#v=onepage&q=tesla%20death%20hotel%20room%20alone&f=false. Retrieved 24 November 2010. ^ "Tesla, Nikola". Encyclopedia Britannica. neuronet.pitt.edu. http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/bio.htm. Retrieved 1 January 2011. ^ Obrad Micov Samardzic, "Porijeklo Samardzica i ostalih bratstava roda Orlovica", Mostar 1992.ISBN 86-82271-53-2. ^ a b Seifer 2001, p. 7^ Cheney, Uth & Glenn 1999, p. 3^ O'Neill 2007, p. 32^ O'Neill 2007, p. 33^ Wysock, W.C.; J.F. Corum, J.M. Hardesty and K.L. Corum (22 October 2001). "Who Was The Real Dr. Nikola Tesla? (A Look At His Professional Credentials)" (PDF). Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, posterpape. http://www.teresonic.com/pdf/Who%20was%20the%20real%20Tesla.pdf. ^ "The Book of New York: Forty Years' Recollections of the American Metropolis" says he matriculated 4 degrees (physics, mathematics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering)^ Lossing, Benson John (1906). Harper's Encyclopdia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1906. 8. University of Michigan Library. p. 52. http://books.google.com/?id=0nwiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Harper%27s+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+of+United+States+History+from+458+A.D.+to+1906#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 21 November 2010. ^ Nikola Tesla: the European Years, D. Mrkich^ Wohinz, Josef W. (16 May 2006). "Nikola Tesla und Graz" (in German). Technischen Universitat Graz. http://www.presse.tugraz.at//pressemitteilungen/2006/16.05.2006_graz.htm. Retrieved 2006-01-29. ^ Wohinz, Josef W. (Ed,) (2006). Nikola Tesla und die Technik in Graz. Graz, Austria: Verlag der Technischen Universitat Graz. pp. 16. ISBN 3902465395. ^ Kulishich, Kosta (27 August 1931). "Tesla Nearly Missed His Career as Inventor: College Roommate Tells". Newark News. . Cited in Seifer, Marc, The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, 1996^ Seifer 2001, p. 18^ a b c d Cheney 2001, p. 33^ Wilson, James Grant; John Fiske (1901). Appleton's cyclopdia of American biography. p. 261. http://books.google.com/?id=f6oLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA261&dq=Appleton%27s+Cyclop%C3%A6dia+of+American+Biography+tesla#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 21 November 2010. ^ Klein, Maury (26 May 2009). The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America. Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 159691677X. http://books.google.com/books?id=w0o5Ld53wAEC&lpg=PT180&dq=Did%20Tesla%20really%20invent%20the%20loudspeaker%3F&pg=PT180#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 14 November 2010. ^ Seifer 2001, p. 94^ "Coming