In 1891, Nikola Tesla established a laboratory at 46 and 48 E. Houston St. At the laboratory, he demonstrated the possibilities of wireless power transmission by lighting electric lamps wirelessly.

Tesla also prepared his demonstrations for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago at this location. Among the responsibilities of lighting the fair with AC power and fluorescent bulbs (created with the collaboration of George Westinghouse), Tesla also created whimsical demonstrations of electrical power like the Egg of Columbus.

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Established on December 5, 1952, The Nikola Tesla Museum is a repository of Tesla's original documents (about 160,000 of them), books and journals, historic technical exhibits, photographs, plans and drawings.

The museum received the bulk of the estate when an American court awarded the belongings to Mr. Sava Kosanovic, Tesla's nephew, as the only rightful heir. In 1951, there were brought to Belgrade in accordance with Tesla's will.

Tesla's ashes are also in the museum, his created remains enclosed in a gold-plated orb.

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Nikola Tesla, inventor and engineer, lived at The New Yorker Hotel in rooms 3327 and 3328 from 1933-1943. Although Tesla had enormous contributions to several fields (electronics, radio, wireless communications and more), he had never attempted to exploit his research for financial gain.

After Tesla died in his hotel room on January 7, 1943, the safe in room 3327 with his papers on "Tesla's Death Ray" (a theoretical weaponized form of his research) was broken into and the research papers stolen. They have never been recovered.

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The author of The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Herbert George (H.G.) Wells was born at Atlas House, 47 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, a small market town, on September 21, 1866.

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Whitney Houston, 48, died on the 4th floor of the Beverly Hilton hotel on February 11, 2012. Houston and her entourage were at the location for the Grammys on Sunday, February 12. Paramedics were on the scene for a separate Grammy party, and received a call at 3:43 pm. Their attempts to resuscitate the pop icon failed, and Houston was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:55 pm.

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