Tesla Monument
The island is home to the Tesla Monument which honors the Serbian-American inventor, Nikola Tesla. The statue was a given to the United States by the government of Yugoslavia in 1976. The author of the statue is Frano Krsinic (1897-1982), a renowned Yugoslav sculptor.
Read more about this topic: Goat Island (New York)
Famous quotes containing the words tesla and/or monument:
“Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am—your master.”
—Griffin Jay, Randall Faye, and Lew Landers. Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi)
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)