Most Long Islanders would be hard-pressed these days to know the name Nikola Tesla, much less what he did. But Tesla, born in 1856 in what is now Croatia, proposed a scheme of “wireless communication, ...

To some people, they make fancy toys for the smug rich. Others think they're going to save the world. Either way, you've almost certainly heard of a little company called Tesla.

Nikola Tesla, a genius in the world of science and invention, was known for many extraordinary ideas, but one that particularly stands out is his obsession with the numbers 3, 6, and 9. Tesla believed ...